Victim (Obet) – Review
Mark Twain is noted as observing that “a lie travels halfway the world before the truth can get its boots on.” What may have started out as a small way of avoiding bigger consequences soon becomes al...
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Miss Viborg – Review
Don’t let the lush colour pops of mauve, sunshine yellow and teal fool you. Marianne Blicher’s feature-length debut, Miss Viborg, is no light-weight comedy. It’s a film about how circumstances and fl...
Skin Deep (Aus Meiner Haut) – Review
“Is it possible for a body to be inherently happier or unhappier than another body?” asks one of the characters within writer-director Alex Schaad’s feature-length debut, Skin Deep (Aus Meiner Haut)....
God’s Creatures – Review
There is an old stereotype about Irish mammies and their sons. Daughters have to jump through hoops for attention, but the boys can do no wrong. Their halo rarely needs polishing and their dinner pla...
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock – Review
“I’m only going to lie to you once,” says, er, Alfred Hitchcock as he narrates his way through Mark Cousins’ documentary. It’s perfectly expected that a director who loved to toy with his audiences’ ...
First Films Announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2023
The news that the Centre for Moving Image had gone into administration as of October 2022 meant the immediate closure of the Edinburgh Film Festival, as well as several independent cinemas. It is a h...