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Apples had its World Premiere at 2020's Venice Film Festival, screened at Glasgow Film Festival 2021 and is released digitally on Friday 7 May by Curzon Cinemas. Dallas King recently had the opportunity to chat over Zoom with the film's…

Proud Mary rolled into Glasgow Film Festival this year with 'The Best' music documentary of the year in Tina. Filmed with the blessing and cooperation of Tina Turner, it leaves no (rolling) stone unturned in chronicling her incredible…

One of the most a-peel-ing movies at this year's Glasgow Film Festival is the Greek film Apples. A film that looks at the importance of memory in defining who we are. Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged…

Lawrence Michael Levine's Black Bear is destined to bake many a noodle at this year's Glasgow Film Festival. A woman sitting on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. She gets up, returns to her house to sit down with a pen…

It is a case of fairground attraction in more ways than one in Zoe Wittock's fantastical romance Jumbo. Noemie Merlant (Portrait Of A Lady On Fire) is the painfully shy and awkward Jeanne. A young woman who lives with her brash mother…

Just like The Toll he oversees, Michael Smiley discovers that everybody has to pay for the sins of the past. Calling local cop Catrin to his toll booth late one night, he spins her a web of intrigue as tangled as a Spaghetti western.…

Nick Moran gives it lock, stock and two smoking barrels to recreate the hedonistic Britpop era in Creation Stories. Does his Alan McGee biopic, debuting at the Glasgow Film Festival, succeed? Definitely maybe. So what's the story?…

The latest film by American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung, Minari stars Burning actor Steven Yuen in a quiet tale about a Korean family making a life in Arkansas. At the heart of the film is Jacob (Yuen), who has uprooted his family to…

Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) today announced the full programme for its 2021 festival, with screenings hosted on Glasgow Film’s new online viewing platform Glasgow Film At Home. The programme contains 6 World premieres, 2 European premieres…

What a difference six months makes. When Vivarium screened at the London Film Festival in October 2019 it was favourably compared to the likes of Black Mirror. Fast forward to April 2020 and just like the best episodes of that show, truth…