Glasgow Film Festival Round Up Part 2
Round up of three of the six films making up the Frightfest strand at GFF ’21
New Releases
Straight Shooting & Hell Bent: Two Films By John Ford
Two very early westerns from one of the genre’s greatest exponents
For the Sake of Vicious
Relentless home invasion thriller lacks characterisation but delivers the gore in buckets
Willy’s Wonderland
Nicolas Cage battles possessed children’s animatronics – how do you fail to make this entertaining?
Meatball Machine
Oddly-fascinating body horror, but impressive puppetry cannot distract from tasteless exploitation of abuse
The Bloodhound
Stunning to look at, Patrick Picard’s debut feature is sadly more copy-cat than creepy
The Lucky Stars 3-Film Collection
Some great action but a lot more misogynistic slapstick in trilogy of Hong Kong action comedies
Mama Weed
Smooth performances which blend dramedy with subtle undertones on the stigmas of middle-age
DVDs
Crisis
Intricate take on the industrial profits of addiction divides its narrative too broadly to maintain an identity
Jumbo
A treasure of peculiarity, which concerns itself more with the idea of a journey than the polished article
My Favorite War
Stirring coming-of-age autobiographical documentary both for its subject and for Latvia
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s difficult to overstate the sheer delight that suffuses almost every second of this film
