Film Archive

A Good Day to Die Hard (12A)

The Happy Lands

Actress Patsy Kensit on weight loss, trustworthy friends and what she learned from being a child star. By Susan Swarbrick.

IN keeping with an event that is one long billet-doux to film, the Glasgow Film Festival begins today, Valentine's Day, with Populaire (HHHH, GFT, tonight, sold out, tomorrow, 1pm), a French romantic comedy that charms up a storm.

FOR most, the flu leaves two legacies: baggier clothes (temporary), and a lifelong tendency to never again confuse a bad cold with the dreaded influenza.

80 Million

Buena Onda: New Brazilian Film

THE worlds of film and games collide at this year's Glasgow Film Festival with the launch of the inaugural gaming strand, curated by Scotland's self-styled "god of games" Robert Florence.

One lover described him as too good-looking for a man.

At work, the most frightening word is "old".

Hitchcock (12A)

IT is a rare actor who does not worry about on-screen chemistry, that hard to define but obvious-when-it-is-absent, commodity.

n HOT on the heels of the Glasgow Film Festival, the youth strand of which is already under way, comes the third Festival of Silent Cinema in the restored and re-opened Hippodrome in Bo'ness.

A silvery loch rests in the distance, surrounded by majestic mountains and infinite skies.