Failed Critics Podcast: Glasgow Film Festival Special

Hello Scotland! This week’s Failed Critics podcast sees James head north of the border to report back from Glasgow Film Festival. With the reluctant blessing of the rest of the Continue reading →

GFF13: Diary of a Failed Critic 22/02/13

It’s been a long, but brilliant week at the Glasgow Film Festival, and it was with great sadness that I embarked on my last day here. It started with the Continue reading →

GFF13: Diary of a Failed Critic 21/02/13

Once again, I spent the first part of my day hurriedly writing my up diary from the day before in a desperate attempt to get it on-line before it became irrelevant. Well, the first part Continue reading →

GFF13: Diary of a Failed Critic 20/02/13

I seem to be following a pattern here. The more things I have to write about for this diary, the less time I have to get things down on paper, Continue reading →

GFF13: Diary of a Failed Critic 19/02/13

I started this diary with a combination of high hopes and great ideals. The trouble is, I’m having so much fun at Glasgow Film Festival I’m struggling to find time Continue reading →

GFF13: Stoker

So, Stoker. Hmmm. I’m just going to have to start writing this review, and hope I have something to say by the end of it. I know that doesn’t seem Continue reading →

GFF13: Diary of a Failed Critic 18/02/13

Today was the day I really felt I was covering a film festival. I had tickets for back-to-back showings, in the middle of the afternoon, on a Monday. There’s just Continue reading →

GFF13: Diary of a Failed Critic 17/02/13

After a relaxing start to the day spent watching my brother-in-law play Bike Polo (exactly as it sounds, and at the same time unlike any sport I’ve ever seen before), Continue reading →

GFF13: Cloud Atlas

After Ang Lee’s visually striking, if slightly lightweight version of ‘the unfilmable novel’ Life of Pi last year, comes an even more ambitious adaptation in the shape of the Wachowski Continue reading →

GFF13: Diary of a Failed Critic 16/02/13

After what feels forever (or at least as long as a Judd Apatow film), my Glasgow Film Festival experience is well and truly under way. This is by far the biggest, and most Continue reading →