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As I sit deep within the Cimmerian sweatbox of Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre 2, the past, present and future of Philippine cinema collide. Manuel Conde ... Read more »

“Would you like a coffee?” he asks politely, and proceeds to pour when I accept. And so I am served a cup of joe by Terence Stamp, who first... Read more »

The wounds left behind by colonial Europe are still taking their time to heal and it’s arguable whether cinema has soothed or aggravated them. France i... Read more »

With the hyped-up, swaggering gait of a gunslinger on speed, Korean action supremo Ryoo Seung-wan delivers East meets West double agent intrigue in The Berli... Read more »

It's still quite amazing, that gap between actors and their on-screen personas. True actors, that is, as opposed to stars who merely project interpretations ... Read more »

With cinema being such a fluid art it is fitting then that this 8th year of Africa in Motion takes its title verb so literally, with its theme for 2013 being... Read more »

Three burning cigarettes are used as joss sticks by a killer in an indecorous prayer to his victims' ghosts; just one of the remarkable moments in Jia Zhangk... Read more »

Cutting a scene a little long can render it dull; somehow, elongating it further leads to intrigue. So what of Salvo, a Sicilian hitman tale, which stretches... Read more »

“The choice not to see is the easiest.” Antonio Piazza, co-director of Salvo tells me. And you have to admire a man who quotes Italo Calvino, &ld... Read more »

Biyi Bandele is a large imposing man, deep voiced, yet dwarfed by his own infectious laugh, which he releases liberally. He is 46 years old and adorned with ... Read more »

It seems unusual, when we're so bound to the screen and the limit of 140-character soundbites, that poetry and spoken word are blooming. There are vibrant sc... Read more »

The film to earn outlaw master Seijun Suzuki his P45, Branded to Kill is the flawed masterpiece of a misunderstood genius. Asked to follow up his stylised cl... Read more »

Jung Chang is a glamorous 62 years of age, easily surpassing stars of the silver screen on the style front – unusual for a writer, living in the world ... Read more »

It seems somehow relevant, for Aly Sidgwick to be sipping black coffee in the Scottish/Swedish bar Sofi’s, chatting away in a local accent seasoned wit... Read more »

For those wise to the Hong Kong gangster oeuvre of filmmaker Johnnie To, the scene will feel familiar. At a table in an upmarket hotel bar sits a man of obvi... Read more »

Jura Unbound offers a banquet of poetry and spoken word this summer across four seperate events. These wonderful words will be delivered by those poets and p... Read more »

To be far from the city is not to be detached from the great ideas and debates shaping society, argues Wigtown Book Festival – this year taking place b... Read more »

Begbie is back, with the April publication of The Blade Artist and Danny Boyle's sequel to Trainspotting filming in May. Ahead of his promotional tour, we ge... Read more »

In 1982, a young unnamed East German fled the GDR through Bulgaria, trying to make it over the Iron Curtain to freedom. He climbed through barbed wire and hi... Read more »

Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, a brutal but hugely entertaining shoot-em-up centered on an arms deal gone wrong, we pay tribute to some of cinem... Read more »

Bret Easton Ellis takes issue over Bobby Brown, bodies are chopped up in bathtubs and Donald Trump is saviour, of Twitter at least. I Hate The Internet autho... Read more »

Here I Am is being declared Jonathan Safran Foer's masterpiece: a term he will hear nothing of. He discusses the controversies a book which features a Middle... Read more »

Leather clad tearaway and wannabe writer Emilia (Findlay) takes a job at a hotel on the South Coast run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. She forms an unl... Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival 2012 is bookended by a pair of distinct cinema voices: two students of the human condition; auteurs whose stories radiate through the s... Read more »

Sometimes it is not the pioneers who are most lauded. They take the first tentative step forward before being trampled. This seems to be the case with Death ... Read more »

The western was America's great film genre, but the world has moved on. Over recent decades the country has inverted itself and the frontier lives in the inn... Read more »

Jang Kun-jae continues to impress following his Dragons & Tigers award for first feature Eighteen; here with a tender reflection on the drama contained w... Read more »

Whoever thought that the end of the world could be so much fun? As apocalypse approaches, the birds fall from the sky, teenage angst is consumed by death, an... Read more »

In a rural Chinese town a young couple sit silently facing each other. It is a good few minutes before sparse words are spoken. The frigid atm... Read more »

This film sits alongside the Devil’s Island of Henri Charriere’s Papillon, forming  an archipelago of punishment and retribution. The settin... Read more »