Tag: culture
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THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Cineworld Glasgow, 08.09.11 It’s impossible not to discuss the central themes of Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, The Skin I live In, without giving away a central plot point, so if you are considering seeing this film in the future, it suffices to say that it is another impressive work from the Spanish director that explores his…
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THE GUARD
Cineworld Glasgow, 09.09.11 John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard is the latest in a handful of Irish comedies in recent years, which utilise the considerable talents of Brendon Gleeson. McDonagh’s brother, Martin, (an executive producer here, along with Don Cheadle) directed the excellent hit In Bruges (2008) starring Colin Farrell, in a career best performance, and Gleeson as hitmen forced to flee to Belgium after a…
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TROLL HUNTER / TROLLJEGEREN
Cineworld Glasgow, 09.09.11 Through negligence on my own part of much knowledge on the national cinema of Norway, and through the general lack of films centered on Trolls, save the fantasy/horror trilogy of the 1980’s and ’90’s (Troll, 1986, John Paul Bucehler and sequels) which I haven’t seen, and have no particular desire to see, the…
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THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE
Odeon East Kilbride, 27.08.11- The very British cinema genre of successful television comedy going to the big screen is one littered with disasters. Think of the poor feature-length versions of On The Buses (1971, Harry Booth), Porridge (1979, Dick Clement), Bean (1997, Mel Smith), or the nadir of them all, the deplorable Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000, Ed Bye). …
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ONE DAY
Odeon East Kilbride, 24.08.11 The novel One Day by David Nicholls takes the typical boy meets girl story and spreads it over twenty years by focusing on where each of the main characters, Emma and Dexter, are on one day – the 15th of July – every year from 1988 to 2008. It’s a neat trick…
Iain Kelly 