Film Review – Past Lives (2023)
Let’s be honest, we all enjoy being a little nosy when it comes to other people. Let’s take the opening scene of the delightful ‘Past Lives‘ and the favourite pastime …
Film Review – Past Lives (2023) Read MoreWorld Cinema
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 …
Film Review – The Beasts (2022) Read More
Chronicles In Film Exclusive / Film Reviews / GFF 2023 / Glasgow Film Festival / sci-fi / World Cinema
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 …
Film Review – Tropic (2022) Read More
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 …
Film Review – One Second (2020) Read More
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. …
2023 Glasgow Film Festival Review – A Man (2022) Read More
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 …
2023 Glasgow Film Festival Review – The Ordinaries (2022) Read More
Film Review: Broker (2022)
Japanese film maker Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his journey around the world creating films. His latest film Broker now takes him closer to home and South Korea. His previous film The …
Film Review: Broker (2022) Read More
Film Review: Magnificent Warriors (1987)
It’s amazing what one film can do to for an actors exposure. Michelle Yeoh will be on the Oscars campaign trail with Everything Everywhere At Once. Unless you were already …
Film Review: Magnificent Warriors (1987) Read More
Great Yakuza Films
To tie in with Eureka Entertainment’s release of Hideo Gosha’s Violent Streets out now on Blu-ray, I’ve decided to look some of the best Yakuza films. Yakuza, Japanese crime syndicates …
Great Yakuza Films Read More
Film Review – Decision To Leave (2022)
Elvis Presley famously sang about ‘suspicious minds’ in 1969. 53 years later Korean film maker Park Chan-Wook seduces our eyes with crimes of the heart in his latest thriller, Decision …
Film Review – Decision To Leave (2022) Read More