And here we go. Glasgow Film Festival is back next Wednesday for its 21st edition with a sold-out opening gala world premiere of Tornado, John Maclean’s survival thriller starring Jack Lowden and Tim Roth. On Sunday, March 9 the festival will close with another world premiere, Martyn Robertson’s documentary about the teenage Scottish footballer Ethan Walker who, after nearly losing his life in a road accident, decided to cycle from Hampden to Munich for the start of Euro 2024.
In between the likes of James McAvoy, Damon Hill and Jessica Lange are all coming to town. In all, 122 films will be screened over 12 days as part of the last festival under director Allison Gardner who is now retiring. She leaves it in rude, good health.
But how do you find your way through such a varied programme? Here are 10 films showing at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival that we think are worth your time. Baby Assassins Nice Days Cineworld Screen 2, March 3, 8.45pm; Cineworld Screen 2 , March 4, 6.
15pm Yugo Sakamoto’s high-octane action thriller is a bit like a John Wick movie. If Keanu Reeves was a Japanese teenage girl, that is. The third in a series, it follows the “baby assassins” of the title, Chisato (Akari Takaishi) and Mahiro (Saori Izawa) as they take on a freelance killer played (with surprising world weary gravitas for what is in effect a cartoon movie) by Sosuke Ikematsu.
The result is broad but bold and the brutal fight scenes verge on contemporary dance at times. Read mo.
