Wednesday sees the 2015 Glasgow Film Festival get underway, and another collection of terrific films has been brought together to make up the exciting programme.
Glasgow Film Festival 2015
The festival brings together British movies with films from around the world as well as established directors with up and coming filmmakers.
The Glasgow Film Festival is one of the most exciting on the British calendar and we take a look at some of the movies that you cannot miss over the next couple of weeks.
- While We're Young
While We're Young will have the honour of opening this year's festival as Noah Baumbach returns to the director's chair.
The movie sees the director and writer reunite with Ben Stiller - who he last worked with on Greenberg - while Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, and Adam Driver make up an exciting cast list.
The film follows Stiller and Watts, a middle-aged couple whose career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.
Baumbach is a director's that explores and portrays relationships well on the film, and While We're Young looks set to go down a similar path.
The film was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last autumn, where it was met well by audiences and critics. It is great to see it get a major screening here in the UK/.
- White Bird in a Blizzard
Shailene Woodley is going to have another very busy year ahead of her, and White Bird in a Blizzard is one of the films that we are going to see her star in.
White Bird in a Blizzard is another book adaptation movie, as Laura Kasischke's novel is given the big screen treatment by director and writer Gregg Araki. Araki has been behind films such as The Doom Generation and Mysterious Skin and this is his first film since Kaboom back in 2012.
The movie is set in 1988 and follows Kat Connors, whose life is turned upside down with the sudden disappearance of her mother - played by the fantastic Eva Green.
A great cast has been assembled for the film, as Woodley and Green are joined by Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez, Angela Bassett, and Gabourey Sidibe.
This coming of age drama sees Woodley deliver another terrific central performance as her star continues to rise.
- It Follows
It has been a rather poor couple of years for horror movie fans, as films in this genre have been a little lacklustre. However, It Follows is a horror film that I am really looking forward to and I have my fingers crossed that it lives up the promise of the trailer.
It Follows will mark on the second feature film outing for director and writer David Robert Mitchell - this is his first film since he made his debut with The Myth of the American Sleepover back in 2010.
Maika Monroe is an actress who has been on the rise in the last couple of years, with roles in the likes of The Guest. Labor Day, and The Bling Ring and she will take on the central role of Jay in It Follows. She is joined on the cast list by Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, Keir Gilchrist, and Jake Weary.
After a date and seemingly innocent sexual encounter, 19-year-old Jay is left with an inescapable sense that someone, or something is following her. Jay and her friends team up to try and find ways escape the traumatising horrors that are always right behind them.
If you haven't seen the trailer yet then you really should check it out as it promises to send shivers down your spine.
- A Little Chaos
It was back in 1997 when Alan Rickman made his directorial debut with The Winter Guest... eighteen years later, he is back with his second film A Little Chaos.
A Little Chaos is a movie that played at the BFI London Film Festival last year, where it was met well by the critics. The film sees Rickman star as well as direct - he has also had a hand in penning the screenplay.
A Little Chaos reunites Rickman with Kate Winslet - they famously worked together on Sense and Sensibility - as the Oscar winning actress takes on the central role of Sabine De Barra. Winslet and Rickman are joined on the cast list by Jennifer Ehle, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, and Matthias Schoenaerts.
Madame Sabine De Barra (Winslet) is an unlikely candidate for landscape architect of the still-to-be-completed Palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical, ordered designs of the man who hires her, the famous architect Le Nôtre (Schoenaerts). However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Le Nôtre and forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV (Rickman).
But Sabine is made of strong stuff; her honesty and compassion help her to overcome both the challenges of her newfound popularity, and an unspeakable tragedy from her past, to win the favour of the Sun King and the heart of Le Nôtre.
- Rosewater
Rosewater was another movie that enjoyed success at the London Film Festival last year, and marks the directorial debut of Jon Stewart. Stewart is best known for his role as host on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but he is making the leap into the director's chair for the first time.
The movie is based on the book Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy.
The movie tells the true story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
Gael García Bernal takes on the central role of Bahari in the film, and is joined on the cast list by Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, and Haluk Bilginer.
Rosewater is a movie that looks set to explore some interesting themes and ideas, while telling an incredible true story of survival and brutality.
- Still Alice
Still Alice is a movie that just about everyone is talking about - largely thanks to the stunning central performance from Julianne Moore. Moore has already scooped the Best Actress gong at the Golden Globes, SAGs and Baftas, and is the red-hot favourite to win her first Oscar.
Still Alice is playing in the Gala part of the festival, which will be a great chance to see the film ahead of its release on 6th March.
The film is based on the novel by Lisa Genova, and sees Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland team up in the director's chair - both are working with Moore for the first time.
The movie sees Moore take on the central role of Alice Howland - a linguistic professor who receives the devastating news that she has early onset Alzheimer's.
Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth also star in this powerful, emotional, and touching adaptation of Genova's novel.
Other movies to watch out for include The Falling, Appropriate Behaviour, Tender, Boychoir, and X+Y.