Search Results

This sinewy thriller from Denmark presents us with a very familiar setup, combining an old movie trope with a ripped-from-the-headlines premise. Veteran cop ... Read more »

Take One Action has announced its return, and we’re happy to report the 14th edition of the festival will be an in-person event across four cities (Edi... Read more »

With Edinburgh open for business again, it's a great time to get out there, meet friends you haven’t seen in ages or simply reconnect with the city and... Read more »

Belle Mamoru Hosoda might be the most exciting voice in Japanese animation right now. With films like Wolf Children and Mirai, he’s certainly proven h... Read more »

Scottish telly is pretty hot right now. BBC One’s drama à la mode is the daftly enjoyable Vigil, a submarine-set whodunit starring&nbs... Read more »

How did you come to set up Monorail in King’s Court? It just seemed to happen quite naturally. With the record shop we’d been looking for a whil... Read more »

Christmas is a time for giving. Unfortunately, it’s also a time for wasting. From the mountains of non-recyclable wrapping paper that pile up beneath o... Read more »

Like practically every film festival in the UK, the 2020 edition of the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival got the kibosh thanks to you-know-what. After hosting... Read more »

Nicole Holofcener has long been one of American indie cinema’s most vital but underappreciated filmmakers. Since her shimmering debut Walking and ... Read more »

Finnish writer-director Juho Kuosmanen is as unassuming a filmmaker as you’re likely to meet, although he’s every right to be cocky. After all, i... Read more »

There aren’t too many Scottish filmmakers who could pull off playing a coked-up hardman who’s stripped to the waist, save for an undone coat, and... Read more »

Some filmmakers are so wedded to the milieu in which they live that it becomes hard to discuss their films without doing so in the context of their surroundi... Read more »

Trying to condense the sprawling comedy lineup at the Edinburgh Fringe into an easy-to-digest article is a fool's errand. But as you can see, we’ve att... Read more »

Many of New German Cinema auteur Wim Wenders' best films trade in existential cool and a weary malaise, and some of them are screening at Glasgow F... Read more »

Do you have a wild story from your school days that you love to roll out whenever you get together with your old classmates? However outlandish your anecdote... Read more »

Scottish cinemas get a bit racy this month as a wonderful selection of pre-Code films head to Filmhouse and GFT. For those uninitiated in this debauched peri... Read more »

Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is an intoxicating dive into the otherworldly psyche of David Bowie – or more accurately, his various alter egos.... Read more »

Since 2010, All Night Horror Madness has been delighting Scottish gorehounds with memorable marathon screenings of weird and wonderful horror films. The nigh... Read more »

‘Tis the spooky season, so get set for scary movies of all stripes coming to Scottish cinemas in October. Summerhall will be serving up a series of hor... Read more »

If while watching the films of Bryan M. Ferguson you come to the conclusion, ‘that’s a born director!’, you’d kinda be right. “... Read more »

The film community in Scotland was knocked sideways yesterday by the news that two of the most important and most-loved arts institutions in Edinburgh &ndash... Read more »

We’re not used to cinematic masterpieces emerging from Scotland in successive years but that’s exactly what’s happened. In 2021 we had Limb... Read more »

Leyla Josephine is an artist who’s so multi-hyphenated and so multi-talented that one name isn’t quite enough to cover her practice. Under that t... Read more »

How to Blow Up a Pipeline Dir. Daniel Goldhaber A ragtag of fresh-faced environmental activists (including Lukas Gage and Sasha Lane) take to Texas with a ... Read more »

HippFest (aka The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival), Scotland’s festival dedicated to silent film, is back for its 13th edition with a packed lineup com... Read more »

We have a lot of amazing film festivals in Scotland. Just this month there’s the Glasgow Film Festival, the Glasgow Short Film Festival and the Hippodr... Read more »

“Where do we go from here?” This is surely a question that comes to mind daily for anyone with an eye on the arts in Scotland, which seems to be... Read more »

Simone Smith’s The Möbius Trip is the gnarliest Scottish film of the year – although that title could easily be applied to previous films fr... Read more »

Ira Sachs has long been one of the most exciting voices on the American indie scene but he hasn’t quite broken through to a wide audience. Passages mig... Read more »

It’s been a dark year for Scottish cinemas since the brutal closures of Edinburgh Filmhouse and its sister venue, the Belmont in Aberdeen, but today th... Read more »