February Flies By

Nearly a third of the way to my target of 150 films of the year so far, with thanks to the spectacular Glasgow Film Festival. So I may need to up the ante and make that target a bit higher, we'll see how things go. The films of the GFF have already been reviewed day to day during the festival itself, so I don't need to say anymore here - follow the links though to travel straight through the interwebs to the review of that specific film!

I, Frankenstein 3D
Lone Survivor
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Grudge Match
Beetlejuice
American Hustle
Mr Peabody and Sherman 3D
The Invisible Woman
RoboCop
The Lego Movie 3D
That Awkward Moment
The Monuments Men
Her
The Lego Movie
A New York Winter's Tale
Only Lovers Left Alive

And from the Glasgow Film Festival - follow the links to find their reviews

The Girl From The Wardrobe
LFO
A Long Way Down
The Congress
The Lunchbox
Exhibition
Metalhead
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Unforgiven
Concussion
Almost Human
Benny and Jolene
Glasgow Film Festival Digest – a round up of all films

Glasgow Film Festival Digest

Well that's it all over for this year and I am thoroughly looking forward to next year, when hopefully I won't have other plans already in place taking up precious film watching time and will be able to squeeze in a few
more. This year anyway was filled with feel-goods, creepers and dramas, including

The Girl from the Wardrobe – a heartwarming Polish dramedy
LFO – a dark Swedish indie sci-fi
A Long Way Down – British comedy adaptation of Nick Hornby novel
The Congress – cross-continental dystopian live action/animation
The Lunchbox – a feel-good Indian romantic drama
Exhibition – a cold British drama about middle-class problems
Metalhead – an Icelandic heavy metal drama
Drew: The Man behind the Poster – documentary
Unforgiven – a samurai version of classic Clint Eastwood Oscar winner
Concussion – family drama
Almost Human – sci-fi horror from the US
Benny & Jolene – a charming British indie rom-com

GFF: Day Seven

Final day of the Glasgow Film Festival and I've thoroughly enjoyed the varied selection of films seen over the last week and a half, especially seeing as this was my first time actively pursuing the showings (I did see Hamlet 2, a few years back which just happened to be part of the GFF that particular year). So to finish off my run I picked up the Frightfest leftover Almost Human and lastly British indie rom-com Benny & Jolene.

GFF: Day Six

Second last day of the festival and I only had the one showing again today, the dark family drama Concussion, starring two actresses who I know well from the TV series 'Sons of Anarchy', Robin Weigert and Maggie Siff (in a lesser part). Therefore was looking forward to this one.

GFF: Day Five

Back in after work today again and only one film. This one was a remake (or a new version, might be more appropriate) of the 1992 Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood starring Western Unforgiven. Having never seen that one before, I took a couple of hours earlier in the week to watch it. So it was fresh in my memory when seeing this new take by director Sang-Il Lee.