Eye For FilmIn Scottish samurai film Tornado "The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean" - https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/tornado-2025-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson #GFF25 #film #samurai #movies #cinema
Spilt Milk has won the Audience Award at the closing ceremony of the Glasgow Film Festival https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2025-03-10-spilt-milk-wins-gff-audience-award-news-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF25 #film #cinema #movies
During the Second World War, a band of rural English misfits must come together to save the galaxy, in The Doom Busters https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-doom-busters-2025-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF25 #SciFi #film #movies
SimonWith #GFF25 over, I've put together a ranking of the 11 films I saw at the festival this year (one more than last year!). Overall a very strong year for the Glasgow Film Festival. https://letterboxd.com/simonxix/list/glasgow-film-festival-2025-ranking/
Documentary The Last Sacrifice examines a bizarre ritual murder from 1945, its connections to a national identify crisis and the birth of folk horror cinema https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-last-sacrifice-2024-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF25 #horror #film #movies
We review Glasgow Film Festival Surprise Film The Ballad Of Wallis Island, in which a lottery winner tries to get his favourite band back together https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-ballad-of-wallis-island-2025-film-review-by-andrew-robertson #GFF25 #film #cinema #movies
The Ballad Of Wallis Island - Film Review - Eye For Film
Eccentric lottery winner, Charles, dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer, back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.
The story of the Oklahoma City bomber is explored in psychological thriller McVeigh https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/mcveigh-2024-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF25 #film #cinema #movies
"They're looking to fight the isolation that they're feeling, and they're looking for community...There's not necessarily a feeling of hypocrisy, because it's not the ideas that are driving it" - Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone on MAGA and Homegrown https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025-03-08-interview-with-michael-premo-and-rachel-falcone-about-homegrown-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF25 #film #USpol #movies
A family in East Germany finds millions in soon-to-be-worthless currency during reunification, and hatches a scheme to turn it into real wealth, in Two To One https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/two-to-one-2024-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #film #GFF25 #cinema #movies
"Britain's never stopped having an identity crisis" - Rupert Russell on the murder of Charles Walton and making documentary The Last Sacrifice https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025-03-07-interview-with-rupert-russell-about-the-last-sacrifice-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF25 #horror #film #movies