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Film Review – The Beasts (2022)
The Ten Commandments teach us to ‘Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself‘, including fellow humans, animals, and all life. However, in Rodrigo Sorogoyen‘s The Beasts (As Bestas), that commandment goes out the window. The four walls we live within are meant to be our sanctuary, protecting us from the wilderness of the outside world.…
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Film Review – Tropic (2022)
Sisterhood and brotherhood can be bonds that are hard to break. In Edouard Salier‘s Tropic, the brotherly bond is vigorously tested as brothers train to become astronauts. Science fiction doesn’t always have to be about invading aliens, the unknown, or even technology. Salier‘s drama is very much a sci-fi story grounded in reality, with a…
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Film Review – One Second (2020)
The power of film can truly accomplish wonderful things. It can excite, immerse, and intrigue you, and it can even make you feel happy or angry. It has the ability to provoke emotions in people, as seen in Zhang Yimou‘s One Second (2020), and it can bring communities together. Yimou is one of the very…
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2023 Glasgow Film Festival Review – A Man (2022)
Never judge a book by its cover” is a saying we can easily apply to people. In Kei Ishikawa’s slow-burning, complex drama, A Man, not everything is as it seems. When people meet for the first time, whether it’s for love or friendship, we always have a level of trust and try not to judge…
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Episode 3: The Chronicle Podcast Listen Now ‘Glasgow FIlm Festival’
Last Sunday 12th March 2023 marked the end of the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival. What perfect reason to create Episode 3 of The Chronicle, the official film Podcast of Chronicles In Film. Glasgow Film Festival celebrated it’s 19th year in existence with film for all. A wide selection of great independent films from around the…
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2023 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Blackberry (2023)
In Alien: Covenant, Michael Fassbender’s character David said, “Big things have small beginnings.” Aliens fans know what he was talking about. He could have been referring to the birth of the BlackBerry mobile device. Nearly 30 years ago, that “small beginning” kicked off a revolution in your hand. Matt Johnson‘s chaotic comedy biopic, BlackBerry, tells…
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2023 Glasgow Film Festival Review – The Ordinaries (2022)
Do you ever wish you could fit in somewhere other than where you are now? Sophie Linnenbaum‘s inventive feature debut, The Ordinaries, is a delightful satirical look at society. What type of character are you? Are you the main character or a supporting character? Do you have a role, or do you even want one?”…
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Must See Films To Watch At 2023 Glasgow Film Festival
The 19th edition of Glasgow Film Festival will take place between 1st and 12th March. This year’s festival will have 70 UK premieres, 6 world, 16 international and 6 Scottish premieres set to play. There is something for all at this festival and every year they do surprise us. Below is 10 films we are…
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Film Review – Escape From Pretoria (2020)
After 20 plus years playing the boy wizard, Daniel Radcliffe has done his best to make sure when Hogwarts door closed for him he wouldn’t be forgotten. Same could be said about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson with Twilight Saga. One could argue about the qaulity of those films, which we’ll leave you to decide.…
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Film Review – Nitram (2021)
This is the latest film from Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel who directed the likes of Macbeth with Michael Fassbender, The True History of The Kelly Gang with George Mackay. This once again sees the filmmaker head back to the dark side of Australian history and what is considered the worst gun atrocity in the country,…
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