What's new at Odeon's this week : Thursday 26th February 2026

The Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) is an annual film festival held in Glasgow, Scotland, and this year runs from Wednesday 25th February through until Sunday 8th March. Now in its 22nd year, the festival began in 2005. By 2015, the festival had seen audience figures top 40,000 for two consecutive years. It is now considered one of the top film festivals in the UK. Each year GFF screens hundreds of titles spanning the spectrum of cinema, from all over the world. The programme is packed with international Premieres and unmissable event cinema, where the audience can see the latest films from modern cine-masters, classics in a fresh new light, and be introduced to the most exciting new voices in world film.

This years Opening Gala film presentation is 'Everybody to Kenmure Street', this UK documentary film is Co-Produced and Directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra. Anti-establishment struggles and activism run in the veins of Glasgow's populace. So when in May 2021, a UK Home Office raid is launched at dawn on the first day of Eid (the end of Ramadan), it triggers one of the most spontaneous acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to Kenmure Street to stop the deportation of their two Muslim neighbours, in a stand-off that lasted eight hours and which demonstrated the power of peaceful solidarity. The Closing Film is 'California Schemin'' and this biographical musical film is Directed and stars James McAvoy in his Directorial debut, and tells the true story of Silibil N' Brains, a rap duo from Dundee who, for three years, pretended to be American in order to be taken seriously by the record industry and ended up touring with Eminem. 

This years programme includes sixteen World, European and International Premieres, sixty-eight UK Premieres, and eighteen Scottish Premieres. The Audience Award, which is the only award presented at the GFF, comprises the following titles :-

* 'Live A Little' - from Sweden, Norway and Denmark this road drama film is Written and Directed by Fanny Ovesen.

* 'Atropia' - from the USA is a war satire film Written and Directed by Hailey Gates, and starring Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloe Sevigny, Chloe East, Tim Blake Nelson, Channing Tatum and Tim Heidecker.
* 'Bouchra' - from Italy, Morocco and the USA and this adult computer-animated arthouse drama film is Co-Written, Co-Directed and Co-Stars Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani.

* 'First Light' - from the Philippines and Australia, this drama film is Directed by James J. Robinson
* 'The Last One For The Road' - from Italy and Germany this drama road film is Co-Written and Directed by Francesco Sossai.
* 'Nino' - from France and this drama film is Co-Written and Directed by Pauline Loques.
* 'On A String' - from the USA this musical drama comedy film is Written, Directed and also stars Isabel Hagan.

* 'Rebuilding' - from the USA, this neo-Western drama film is Written and Directed by Max Walker-Silverman and stars Josh O'Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann Fahy and Amy Madigan.
* 'A Place For Her' - from France and is Written and Directed by Melisa Godet.
* 'Pasa Faho' - from Australia this comedy drama film is Written and Directed by Kalu Oji.

For more details on the above named films, the other film sections being showcased, and a whole lot of other good stuff too, you can visit the official website at : http://www.glasgowfilmfest.org

With five new release movies to tease you out to your local Odeon this coming week, we kick off with the seventh films in this slasher horror franchise in which a new Ghostface killer targets Sidney Prescott's daughter. Then we have a drama film where a man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco - they are searching for their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago. Next up there is a romantic comedy drama film that tells the story of a man, who after being left at the altar in Rome, decides to go on his honeymoon alone, ultimately with life changing consequences. This is followed by a historical musical drama offering whereby a woman, revered by her followers as the female Christ reborn preaches gender and social equality as the founder of the devotional sect the Shakers; before closing out the week with an Aussie doco about the northern New South Wales town of Lismore, prone to acute flooding and its most recent disaster in 2022 that has many residents asking should I stay, or should I go?

Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the five latest release new films as Previewed below, or those doing the rounds currently on general release or as Reviewed and Previewed in previous Blog Posts here at Odeon Online, you are most welcome to share your movie going thoughts, opinions and observations by leaving your relevant, succinct and appropriate views in the Comments section below this or any other Post. We'd love to hear from you, and in the meantime, enjoy your big screen Odeon outing during the coming week.

'SCREAM 7' (Rated MA15+) - this American slasher horror film is Co-Written and Directed by Kevin Williamson who also penned 'Scream', 'Scream 2' and 'Scream 4' in 1996, 1997 and 2011 respectively. Those first six films in this franchise grossed worldwide a total US$912M from combined production budgets of US$177M, with this instalment costing US$40M to produce.

Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a new life for herself in the quiet town of Pine Grove, Indiana, having survived several Ghostface murder sprees in the past, until a new Ghostface killer begins to target her daughter Tatum Evans (Isabel May), forcing her to face her past to end the killings once and for all. Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, and Courteney Cox all reprise their roles from the previous films. The film is released in the US, the UK and here in Australia this week. 

'SIRAT' (Rated M) - is a Spanish and French Co-Production that is Co-Written, Co-Produced and Directed by Oliver Laxe whose prior feature films are 'You Are All Captains' in 2010, 'Mimosas' in 2016 and 'Fire Will Come' in 2019. Here, a father Luis (Sergi Lopez) and his son Esteban (Bruno Nunez Arjona) arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They are searching for Marina, daughter and sister, who vanished five months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading, but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits. The film had its World Premiere showcasing in mid-May last year in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. It was released in Spain in early June 2025 and in France in mid-September 2025, and is released this week here in Australia having so far grossed US$11M from a production budget of US$7.5M and garnering universal critical acclaim having so far collected twenty-nine wins and a further 104 nominations from around the awards and festivals circuit, with some of those nods still pending a final outcome.

'SOLO MIO' (Rated PG) - this American romantic comedy drama film is Directed by two of the eight brothers Chuck and Dan Kinnane and Written by two more Patrick and John Kinnane with Kevin James, who also stars, and is Edited by a fifth brother Pete Kinnane. Here then, after a wedding disaster leaves a groom Matt Taylor (Kevin James) stranded in Rome, having been jilted at the alter by his fiancee Heather (Julie Ann Emery) he is left heartbroken, down trodden and all alone in the world's happiest city. However, with help from a determined local Gia (Nicole Grimaudo) and a few meddling couples, his ruined honeymoon becomes an adventure that he never expected. The film was released Stateside earlier this month, has so far grossed US$22M from a production budget of just US$4M and has garnered mixed or average reviews.

'THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE' (Rated M) - is a historical musical drama film that is Co-Written and Directed by Mona Fastvold in only her third feature film Directorial outing following 2014's 'The Sleepwalker' and 'The World to Come' in 2020. Based on real events, Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried), the founding leader of the devotional sect known as the Shaker Movement in the late 18th Century, is proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. This film depicts her establishment of a utopian society in New England, USA, and the Shakers' worship through song and dance. Also starring Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Christopher Abbott and Tim Blake Nelson. The film Premiered in the main competition at last years Venice International Film Festival in early September where it was nominated for the Golden Lion, was released in the US on Christmas Day, and here in Australia and the UK this week, having garnered positive critical reviews and so far recovering US$3M from its US$10M production costs.

'FLOODLAND' (Rated M) - this Australian documentary is Co-Written and Directed by Jordan Giusti in his first feature length film. Lismore in northern New South Wales is situated 734kms north of Sydney and 200kms south of Brisbane in Queensland, and is Australia’s flood capital, priding itself on historic resilience in the face of immeasurable deluge. In 2022, in the face of persistent flooding the people and properties of Lismore are shattered by the most expensive climate disaster in Australia’s history. But as the climate crisis rises tides, uncomfortable truths boil to the surface, leaving residents wondering if their precarious way of life can survive a changing world. Following a rich cast of characters through the aftermath, hope arrives with new love and the founding of a groundbreaking First Nations trauma centre. However, as the adrenaline fades, residents living on the floodplain are pushed to breaking point. Politicians, councillors and grassroots activists clash over the fate of Lismore. Inequality fractures the tight-knit community as a government buyback scheme stalls, and the resilience of the town is tested. In the struggle for the soul of Lismore, however, Bundjalung leaders emerge with a different vision, where First Nations knowledge plays a vital role in healing, planning and respecting the Clarence, Richmond and Tweed Rivers. At a crossroads, the residents must choose whether to grit it out, adapt, or abandon Lismore altogether.

With five new release movie offerings this week to tempt you out to your local Odeon, remember to share your movie going thoughts with your other like minded cinephile friends afterwards here at Odeon Online. In the meantime, I'll see you sometime somewhere at your local Odeon in the week ahead.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-