Isle Of Dogs
The opening gala for the 2018 film festival was an inspired choice. Wes Anderson ticks so many of the boxes that the organisers of the festival are promoting. He is a big name talent with a very part...
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Isle Of Dogs Opens The 2018 Glasgow Film Festival
For the fourteenth annual edition of the Glasgow Film Festival the opening gala has been announced. The latest film from the director of The Grand Budapest Hotel (which had its UK premiere at Glasgow...
Six Of The Best: Adrien Brody
In Daniel Lee’s action epic Dragon Blade, Oscar-winner Adrien Brody plays the role of the ruthless and power –hungry Roman General Tiberius. The ambitious General, who killed his father and blinded h...
John’s Top Ten of 2014
Contrary to popular opinion I found 2014 to be a pretty good year for movie releases. Sure some of the bigger movies failed to deliver but what’s new? There were a number of very well made film...
David’s Top Ten Of 2014
So, this is Christmas and what have you done, as a great man once said. Well, some people put together some very fine films in 2014. As always, any omissions are either due to personal taste, and whe...
The Grand Budapest Hotel
And so we return once again to the world of Wes Anderson and everything we have come to love and admire in his films. And yes, once again that includes Bill Murray. This is a tale that deals with the...
Glasgow Film Festival 2014
The Glasgow Film Festival returns this year bigger and better than ever. In the ten years of its existence the festival has blossomed from small beginnings to the multi faceted event that we have tod...
Castello Cavalcanti
It’s always welcome to get a little on-line surprise (no not that kind!) that restores your faith in movies. Wes Anderson, in association with Prada, has released an eight minute short, Castel...
The Wes Anderson Collection Part 4
With the fourth part of the video essays we come to my personal favourite, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou from 2004. I have very fond memories of watching the Jacques Cousteau documentaries which...
The Wes Anderson Collection Part 3
With the third of the video essays we come to the two thousand and one film The Royal Tenenbaums. A tale of a dysfunctional family of child prodigies who are brought together by their terminally ill ...