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The GFF 2020 Podcasts: Festival Directors Allison Gardener & Allan Hunter…
For the first of our podcasts celebrating this year’s Glasgow Film Festival SWH! spoke to festival co-directors Allison Gardner and Allan...
Jan 29, 20202 min read


New Gold Dram: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Film Director Andrew Peat…
For the latest podcast Ali met up with the film director Andrew Peat at Glasgow’s CCA before the Glasgow Film Festival premiere of his...
Mar 7, 20192 min read


Lights, Camera, Action!: A Preview Of Glasgow Film Festival 2019…
If it’s February in Glasgow it can only be the Glasgow Film Festival, the perfect place for the more discerning film fans to take shelter...
Feb 19, 20191 min read


Lights, Camera, Action!: A Preview Of Glasgow Film Festival 2018…
If it’s February in Glasgow it can only be the Glasgow Film Festival, the perfect place for the more discerning film fans to take shelter...
Feb 14, 20182 min read


That Was The Year That Was: It’s The Best Of 2017 Podcasts – Part 1 (Film)…
This year we are recording three separate Best Of 2017 podcasts, one each for film, music, and books. For the first two, Ali and Ian are...
Dec 8, 20171 min read


You Have Been Watching…Benny
Any informed discussion of the greatest all-time Scottish sports stars will throw up familiar names. Alongside the likes of Alan Wells,...
Feb 27, 20173 min read


Talking Movies At GFF17 – #3: An Interview With Bodkin Ras Director Kaweh Modiri…
Our previous interviews have been with David Graham Scott, whose film The End Of The Game begins in Caithness and then moves to South...
Feb 24, 20174 min read


You Have Been Watching…The End Of The Game
Our first film review of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival is of David Graham Scott’s The End Of The Game. And what a place to start....
Feb 21, 20173 min read


Talking Movies At GFF17 – #2: An Interview With The Levelling Director Hope Dickson Leach̷
Hope Dickson Leach’s excellent The Levelling is at the GFT from the 12th – 18th May. Below is an interview with the director from earlier...
Feb 18, 20175 min read


Stranger Than Fiction: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Documentary Maker Lou McLoughlan…
The latest podcast has Ali talking to director and cinematographer Lou McLoughlan. We could pretend that it has been perfectly timed to...
Feb 12, 20172 min read


Talking Movies At GFF17 – #1: An Interview With The End Of The Game Director David Graham Scot
It is also as much about the director himself and his growing relationship with his leading man and his beliefs, and how they appear to...
Feb 12, 20174 min read


Lights, Camera, Action!: A Preview Of Glasgow Film Festival 2017…
Glasgow Film Festival was created specifically to offer discerning film-fans shelter from the storm. Running from 15th – 26th February,...
Feb 12, 20172 min read


Sweet 16: A Preview Of Glasgow Film Festival 2016…
Glasgow Film Festival, surely a marriage made in heaven. Running from 17th – 28th February, it’s a festival which, geographical bias...
Feb 16, 20162 min read


Lights, Camera, Action: A Preview of the Glasgow Film Festival 2015…
If it’s February, it must be the Glasgow Film Festival. It has long been one of the best festivals Scotland has to offer, and this year...
Feb 15, 20151 min read
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