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A valiant Katharine Hepburn heads a game, if largely ill-suited, cast in director John Ford’s intriguing but shaky 1936 film version of Maxwell Anderson’s stage verse drama about the recently widowed Mary Stuart (Hepburn), who returns […]
Co-writer/director Paul Fegan’s superlative music documentary follows Scottish indie pop artist Aidan Moffat (from Arab Strap) on tour in Scotland with the traditional Scottish folk songs he’s decided to update to suit modern, urban life. He meets up […]
Six soldiers set out in the Highland woods to destroy something out there that is killing everyone off at the time of the full moon. Writer-director Neil Marshall’s 2002 Brit werewolf chiller is occasionally scary […]
Australian director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) throws the baby out with bathwater in his imaginative, freewheeling attempt to turn the Scottish Play into what amounts to a brutal Western movie. Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie and Todd Louiso fail to […]
Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 British movie stars George Cole, in his film debut at 16 as Ronald, a young cockney who is evacuated to a Scottish village, always a hotbed of Nazis in the movies […]
Alan Rickman’s highly impressive and moving debut as director stars real-life mother and daughter Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson as a screen mother and daughter. It won three awards at the Venice Film Festival. including Best Actress for Thompson. […]
Director Douglas Aarniokoski’s 2000 unsubtle, but fast-paced, action-packed sci-fi fantasy adventure thriller brings Christopher Lambert back for his fourth turn as the sword-fighting immortal Connor MacLeod. This time he is meeting up with his long-lost immortal […]