Category: Culture
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IN TIME
Odeon Glasgow Quay, 16.11.11 After a gap of 6 years since he wrote and directed Nicolas Cage in the average Lord Of War (2005), Andrew Niccol is back with In Time, a film in which he returns to the sci-fi world that he mined successfully for Gattaca (1997) and to a lesser extent in S1mone (2001). Set in the near future, In…
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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
Cineworld Glasgow, 13.10.11 Midnight In Paris is Woody Allen’s 44th feature film, and already his most successful at the box office. This says a lot about inflation rates and cinema ticket prices, but also points to the popularity of Owen Wilson, in the lead role as Gil, and of the city of Paris, which must…
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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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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…
Iain Kelly 