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TYRANNOSAUR
Cineworld Glasgow, 11.10.11 Debut feature director Paddy Considine and star Peter Mullen have both been at pains in press interviews for their new film Tyrannosaur to emphasise that it is not another British film of social realism, in the line of Ken Loach or Tony Richardson. One obvious reason for this is that such a label…
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CONTAGION
Cineworld Glasgow, 09.11.11 Steven Soderbergh has gathered another all-star cast for his latest multi dimensional drama, this time tracing the stories of several people all affected by the outbreak of a new virus that threatens to wipe out mankind. Where Traffic (2000) was about drugs and the effect on people’s lives in the real world, this is…
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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN
Odeon East Kilbride, 08.11.11 One of the nicest touches about Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of the boy reporter Tintin occurs just after the opening credit sequence – itself a charming animation in its own right as it follows the distinctive silhouette of Tintin on a foot chase through Hergé’s memorable world. We are then situated in a…
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WARRIOR
Cineworld Glasgow, 05.10.11 Warrior, from director Gavin O’Connor, is essentially an amalgamation of Rocky films, and any number of other boxing movies, but transported into the modern world of Mixed Marshall Art cage fighting. Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy), is an ex-military soldier returning to the US, who turns to his father, Paddy (Nick Nolte) for help to train…
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RED STATE
Cineworld Glasgow, 05.10.11 Those of us of the right age to have been a teenager in the 1990’s hold a certain soft spot for Kevin Smith. With the grainy, self-funded, low-budget Clerks (1994), Smith found a unique brand of humour that connected with a generation of film-goers crying out for smart, well written comedy that spoke about the world that…
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Iain Kelly 