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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 »

The Sleeping Beast (Dir. Jaak Kilmi) The imagination of youth blends with the harsh reality of adulthood in this evocative coming-of-age film from Estonia.... Read more »

The autumn film festival calendar is an embarrassment of riches this month with at least half a dozen great festivals taking place. There’s the final w... Read more »

I’m in bed with the director of In Bed with Victoria. Well, virtually. French filmmaker Justine Triet is in a hotel room lying flat, her head propped u... Read more »

HippFest (or The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival to give it its full title) returns to its stunning home at the Hippodrome cinema in Bo’ness from ... Read more »

Andrew Cumming’s gnarly survivalist horror Out of Darkness makes great use of its Highland setting. Set in the Paleolithic age, it follows a band ... Read more »

One of the most imaginatively curated festivals on Scotland's festival calendar is the Glasgow Short Film Festival, and this year’s programme looks to ... Read more »

Cultural boycotts work. One only has to look at how artists, writers and cultural institutions contributed to the end of Apartheid in South Africa. Today, ma... Read more »

One of the most heartening stories from the film world this year has been the huge well of support that has gathered around the Cinema for Gaza campaign, whi... Read more »