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Shivers, which introduced erstwhile ‘king of venereal horror’ David Cronenberg to the world stage, was at one point renamed They Came from Within... Read more »

Part meditative, realist anti-western, part metaphysical, Tarkovsky-esque head-scratcher, Lisandro Alonso’s fifth feature, Jauja (pronounced “How... Read more »

Actor-director Paul Gross’ Hyena Road tells the fictional story of the Canadian military’s quest to build the titular thoroughfare deep in the Ta... Read more »

The performances are what sustains Tom Hooper's beautiful but buttoned-up The Danish Girl A fictionalized account of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, Tom Hoop... Read more »

Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp star in Kevin Smith's good-natured meta-comedy mess Yoga Hosers Relying on a host of sub-Austin Powers gags – in... Read more »

Awash in enough national signifiers to satisfy the cruel overlords of the Visit Scotland tourist board – rugged and majestic windswept vistas; a suffic... Read more »

Two great coming-of-age films from the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival that embrace their outsiders as sympathetic and complicated human beings: T... Read more »

“There are so many movies these days where everyone’s separate and you don’t even really get to hang out,” Taika Waititi laments whil... Read more »

Veteran Canadian director Bruce McDonald (Pontypool, Hard Core Logo) follows up 2015’s polarizing horror flick Hellions with this charming coming-of-ag... Read more »

Part Buffy, a little Ghostbusters, a dash of Harry Potter, and all Hong Kong midnight-movie weirdness, Yan Pak-wing and Chiu Sin-hang’s Vampire Cleanup... Read more »

With Joe, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche) returns to his roots, examining the grim reality of society’s underclass wi... Read more »

Violet opens with a silent act of violence, the murder of a teenage boy in an empty shopping mall, wordlessly captured from multiple angles on CCTV. After wi... Read more »

Wes Anderson fans who aren’t familiar with the quirk-fueled pleasures of Harold and Maude should remedy that post-haste, considering the filmmaker&rsqu... Read more »

Jules Dassin’s absorbing 1948 potboiler The Naked City is sometimes billed as a film noir. It’s actually much more concerned with the nitty-gritt... Read more »

Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s grindhouse thriller Rabid Dogs (1974) ironically wasn’t released until long after the grindhouse was sent to ... Read more »

“I find your anger incredibly sexy – I hate so many things too,” Shirin (Desiree Akhavan) deadpans when first meeting her soon-to-be girlfr... Read more »

Reportedly inspired by a dream, 3 Women represents Robert Altman at his most experimental – the film’s eerie underwater shots (or, more technical... Read more »

From its opening scene set in the veritable hellscape of the Glass House Laundry, a literal sweatshop where women are forced into servitude as children and l... Read more »

Maggie’s Plan is one of those New York-set rom-coms where neurotic bourgie types fret over crumbling marriages in tasteful yet funky rooms with books b... Read more »

Writer-director Jeff Grace’s feature debut is as middling and generic as its title suggests, an Apatow-esque comedy-drama that lets down its largely ta... Read more »

The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Taika Waititi's joyous Hunt for the Wilderpeople and ... Read more »

The best film events happening in Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester this week, including Paris is Burning at FACT, the final film from Chantal Akerman at Hyde ... Read more »

From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »

Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »

Canons – like cannons – can be dangerous. They boil artists’ oeuvres down to easily digestible chunks, leaving the non-canonical titles out... Read more »

What comes to your mind we you think 'British Cinema'? Do you picture a dour room with characters indulging in bittersweet conversations while drinking tea (... Read more »

Is there a filmmaker who’s been more misrepresented by film culture than Martin Scorsese? Perceived wisdom tells us he’s cinema’s great amb... Read more »