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The muse gets a tough deal in life. The source of inspiration for many a great artist, she (and it's almost always she) rarely gets celebrated or, perhaps mo... Read more »

Weird Weekend is back! Matchbox Cineclub's festival of cult cinema will return to Glasgow's CCA at the end of August for another three days of strange and un... Read more »

Back in Cannes, there were plenty of films that got critics excited: Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Quentin ... Read more »

In the bar of a boutique hotel just off Glasgow’s Blythswood Square sits Gurinder Chadha, director of Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice. She... Read more »

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is back! Matchbox Cineclub's annual festival of cult cinema returns to Glasgow's CCA at the end of August for three days of st... Read more »

Whitney Houston believed that young people were our future, and who are we to disagree? Therefore we’re psyched to see what Glasgow Film’s innova... Read more »

In the space of four editions, the Scottish Queer International Film Festival has proven itself to be one of the most vibrant and forward-thinking events on ... Read more »

Today sees four days of inventive, thought-provoking, boundary-pushing cinema kick off in Glasgow, as Document Human Rights Film Festival returns to CCA for ... Read more »

The short films from Bryan M Ferguson have always been horrific and peppered with violence. In Caustic Gulp, experimentation with swimming pool chlorine ends... Read more »

It’s been announced today that Mark Adams is stepping down from his role as Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival after five years... Read more »

In terms of cinema, 2019 was an embarrassment of riches. The BAFTAs, meanwhile, are just plain embarrassing. The UK’s chief awards body has once again ... Read more »

This year Burns&Beyond will come to a close with A Waltz Across the Carpet, which will celebrate the life and music of Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hu... Read more »

Get set to escape into the wild imagination of Studio Ghibli films from the comfort of your own couch as the back catalogue of the legendary Japanese animati... Read more »

Life is tough for street performers – they spend their days coated in metallic paint, impersonating statues and robots for our amusement. The... Read more »

Critics often make the mistake of talking about the Oscars as if they are some barometer of quality filmmaking, but very rarely does a truly great film take ... Read more »

Once again, Glasgow Short Film Festival will be pushing the boundaries of what makes a short film, with the 2020 edition of the festival opening with My Firs... Read more »

Is Jim Hopper dead? That was the question on every Stranger Things fans’ lips at the close of Season 3, when it appeared the moustachioed she... Read more »

Peter Mackie Burns is only two features into his filmmaking career, but a distinct style is already beginning to form. Not that the Glaswegian director has t... Read more »

Women make films. As statements go, this one seems pretty irrefutable. Yet every year, festival programmers and award bodies defend the paucity of women-dire... Read more »

Scottish cinemas are bursting at the seams in March. The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (18-22 Mar) turns ten and brings a tasty lineup to its one of a kind... Read more »

Welcome to quarantine culture! And get used to it. Our cinemas are closed, our festivals are postponed and our monthly film clubs have now been outlawed in a... Read more »

This rolling page will keep you up to date with events and gigs cancelled or moved in response to the pandemic, as well as venue closures. As the COVID-19 p... Read more »

As far back as Rose Glass can remember, she always wanted to be a filmmaker. This ambition really kicked into gear around the age of ten, when her parents bo... Read more »

Feature film production tends to be too slow to harpoon the subjects of its derision in a timely fashion; the best we can usually hope for is lampooning in h... Read more »

Flemish director Tim Mielants’ feature debut, Patrick is a tender and funny tragicomedy set in a crummy naturist campsite in Belgium. It takes abo... Read more »

David Fincher's Mank (★★★) may be arriving on Netflix, but its heart belongs to a world away from streaming: the Golden Age of Hollywood, when America&r... Read more »

The gentle pop of 90s faves The Beautiful South was rattling around my head last weekend as I attended my first International Film Festival Rotterdam. Whethe... Read more »

MUBI has always been cinephile nirvana, but as skittish studios continue to shunt their glitziest arthouse titles off to a hopefully COVID-free future (Anoth... Read more »

Mads Mikkelsen’s face is at once fierce and compassionate. Even hidden behind the massive beard he wears in Riders of Justice, his clenched jawline, br... Read more »

This time last year, the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (aka HippFest) was gearing up to celebrate its tenth edition but of course, that could not happen th... Read more »