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No matter how dry the teen film creative well may appear, every so often one comes along that puts a smart spin on its shopworn tropes. Heathers gave the&nbs... Read more »

David Robert Mitchell loves to play with genre. In his disarming debut film, The Myth of the American Sleepover, he tinkered with the familiar codes of the t... Read more »

In new Italian film Happy as Lazzaro, realism and poetry sit side-by-side. Speaking to Alice Rohrwacher, the film’s 37-year-old writer-director, one se... Read more »

This year has already seen films on the horrors of festivals with Netflix’s FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened and Hulu’s Fyre Fraud. A... Read more »

Manchester International Festival has unveiled its 2019 programme, and the first event to catch the eye is that legendary filmmaker David Lynch will be ... Read more »

Eddie Izzard fans are in for a rare treat this year as it’s been announced the great absurdist standup and actor is heading to Edinburgh in August to t... Read more »

Last night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Karen O and Danger Mouse performed Woman, a track from their new joint album, Lux Prima. Nothing unusual th... Read more »

Pixies are going back on the road.  The hugely influential American rock band are crossing the pond this autumn for a huge tour of Europe in September a... Read more »

Taking place at Kelburn Castle near Largs, the small but perfectly formed Kelburn Garden Party (5-8 Jul) is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary this year, ... Read more »

The eyes of the experimental moving image world will once again turn to Hawick next month. For the last nine years, the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festiva... Read more »

Everyone's a critic nowadays, right? But if you're interested in more than just firing off hot takes into the abyss of Twitter, Edinburgh International Film ... Read more »

It's been one year since the tragic death of Scott Hutchison. The much-loved Frightened Rabbit singer took his own life in May 2018, and on the one year anni... Read more »

Lovers of performance art wouldn’t want to be anywhere else during the Fringe than taking in the fresh and forward-thinking programme at Summerhall. Th... Read more »

We'll say one thing for Pokémon Detective Pikachu: it looks gorgeous. Mostly taking place in Ryme City, a town in which humans and Pokémon live... Read more »

Disney•Pixar love Edinburgh International Film Festival. During the last decade, no edition of the long-running festival has felt complete without ... Read more »

Remember when US indie cinema was the most exciting in the world? In the late-80s and early-90s, it seemed like all a young American filmmaker needed was a c... Read more »

The death of cinema treasure Agnès Varda back in March has left an absence in the film world that will be felt for a long while. The legendary French ... Read more »

The Fringe is gargantuan. And this coming edition is particularly massive. With the full programme launched this morning, the world's biggest arts festival w... Read more »

1. Edinburgh International Film Festival The Dead Don't Die EIFF returns this month for the 73rd edition, and with it the usual mix of new films from home ... Read more »

Last April marked the tenth anniversary of The Midnight Organ Fight, Frightened Rabbit's brilliant second album. At the beginning of 2018, the band had plann... Read more »

For Scottish film fans, June means one thing: Edinburgh International Film Festival. And the main festival's annual alfresco warmup, Film Fest in the City, w... Read more »

Every now and then, the film world offers up the phenomenon of the twin film, the anomaly where two movies on the same subject appear on our cinema screens a... Read more »

“You let us in… and now... you are going to have to let us stay.” That's the ominous threat that we hear from the new big bad in the third... Read more »

The Fringe has a new contender for hottest ticket, as Eddie Izzard is bringing his brand new standup show, Wunderbar, to Edinburgh during August. We already... Read more »

Sitting in a booth of the cafe at Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Jan-Ole Gerster is looking a bit worn out. He was out late the night befor... Read more »

This autumn has much to offer for Anna Meredith fans. The Scottish composer-performer announced this afternoon that she'll be back in October with her second... Read more »

Socially conscious film festival Take One Action is back with a packed programme of movies concerned with issues ranging from climate change and the ongoing ... Read more »

The BBC has announced today that Limmy will be shooting more episodes of his DIY show Limmy's Homemade Show. Three half-hour episodes have been commissioned,... Read more »

What is this? When is this? Where did this come from? These are some of the questions that will run through your head in the opening minutes of Bait, the str... Read more »

The ecstasy of friendship and, well, ecstasy are celebrated in Brian Welsh’s freewheeling coming-of-age film Beats, which vividly transports us to a ru... Read more »