One of the sure signs that Spring is coming is the start of the annual Glasgow Film Festival, this year running from Wednesday 1st to...

"The nicest part is just before you taste it, but that can’t go on forever." (1) The post-punk era of the late seventies and early...

Scott Graham credit: Pete Copeland Back in March Ali spoke to director Scott Graham about his latest feature Run, which follows on from...

For the last in our series of Glasgow Film Festival 2020 podcasts Ali spoke to director Josh David Jordan, actor & producer Jessica Marie...

Scott Graham credit: Pete Copeland For the latest in our series of Glasgow Film Festival podcasts, Ali spoke to director Scott Graham,...

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...

For the latest podcast Ali spoke to foreign affairs writer & photographer David Pratt about the film Pictures From Afghanistan, which is...

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...

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...

Now firmly established as one of Scotland’s finest, the Dunoon Film Festival is back this coming weekend (9-11 November) with a fantastic...

May Miles Thomas (left) about her incredible film Voyageuse and the issues and themes it addresses, such as family, sibling rivalry,...

Lynne Ramsay is to film what The Blue Nile are to music – discuss. She has made four films in 18 years, and it’s been seven between her...

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...

Any informed discussion of the greatest all-time Scottish sports stars will throw up familiar names. Alongside the likes of Alan Wells,...

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....

The sweat wis lashing oafy this boy. Was T2 Trainspotting a terrible idea, destined to disappoint and lessen the memory of seeing the...

I don’t normally bring anything directly personal into a review – it’s rarely relevant, but I want to make the point that sometimes a...

At the recent Glasgow Film Festival an unlikely hero emerged in the formidable form of Sheila Stewart, the legendary Scottish folk...

I know from various conversations I have had since it was first announced that there was to be a film version of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s...

There have been some rather sniffy reviews about the film version of John Niven’s novel Kill Your Friends (and you can take that as a pun...