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City on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987)The famous multiple Mexican stand-off at the climax of Reservoir Dogs feeds from the finale of this Hong Kong gangster classic ... Read more »

It was the fag end of the sepia seventies and, after two decades in the sun, the Italian Western genre was staggering, gut shot and waiting to die. Then... Read more »

I was a teensy bit nervous, I must admit, on my way to interview the Soska sisters, aka the Twisted Twins. They are the Canadian directors of American Mary, ... Read more »

Derek is an outsider. Not the mysterious gunslinger type who rolls into town, but a strange oddball full of ticks and frowns. Sitting somewhere between Travi... Read more »

Private lives of the Peoples Republic of China are played out in the public space of a Chengdu park and recorded as historical document in Libbie D Cohn and ... Read more »

What can be more worthy than a film highlighting the cruelty of torture? And what more torturous than almost two hours as witness to such soulless barbarity?... Read more »

“The internet is the crime scene of the 21st century.” Andrew Douglas ponders the line he’s just said, not quite remembering whether he cri... Read more »

This plush adaptation of the Nigerian Civil War spanning, Orange Prize-winning novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie blends drama with melodrama, but unlike its ... Read more »

I remember strolling through Tiananmen Square some years back, a huge digital clock counting down the seconds, minutes, years until the 2008 Beijing Olympics... Read more »

In a wonderful scene from Doctor Zhivago, Strelnikov (Tom Courtenay) schools Yuri (Omar Sharif) on just how the world has turned. “The private lif... Read more »

The unmistakable riff of Eye of the Tiger throbs through the arena, and as the smoke slowly clears a microphone descends from the heavens into hell, to be cl... Read more »

“You ARE a feminist,” the woman in the front row's position forcibly set during Melissa Benn’s Edinburgh International Book Festival e... Read more »

So, you’re in the Spiegeltent, sipping a cold beer on a warm summer’s night as laughter ripples around you. You’re watching a team of Brita... Read more »

With tousled, foppish hair, pushed frequently from his face, a dagger tattoo peering out from his left sleeve and inked star rising from his collar, Oscar Co... Read more »

Muriel Gray, Chair of the judges when Half of a Yellow Sun won the Baileys Prize in 2007, said: “While it’s sometimes pompous to call a... Read more »

Let’s open with a titan. James Kelman, the Booker Prize botherer and master of formalism is set to have his new novel Dirt Road (Canongate) p... Read more »

The quality of Aye Write!'s events, and its increasing year-on-year success and standing means that you've got to be quick off the mark to secure seats to th... Read more »

After the recent death of filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, aged 93, The Skinny looks back on the defining moment of the master provocateur's career: when he was sack... Read more »

Argentine author César Aira is like nothing you've read before. As a light is shone on a small corner of his work – translations of The Proof an... Read more »

It’s both the easiest and most challenging task of the year. Edinburgh International Book Festival offers a seemingly bottomless pail of goodness for m... Read more »

Like most Kiyoshi Kurosawa films, Creepy burns slow as asbestos, with similarly poisonous possibilities. The Japanese auteur once more drags horror from the ... Read more »

Cixin Liu is China's leading science fiction writer and quite simply a phenomenon. He is author of the multi award-winning Remembrance of Earth's Past trilog... Read more »

Blood in the Mobile is a film of contrasts. The scorched heat and violence of Africa juxtaposes sharply with the glacial serenity of the Finnish Nokia HQ, al... Read more »

Marlon Brando’s waistline excluded, blending the two arts of cinema and cuisine has provided many wonderful moments. Whether it’s the brotherly ... Read more »

Poland’s foreign language Oscar hopeful is the true story of Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), sewer worker and moonlighting burglar, who hid Jews in... Read more »

“You’ll never be a star now, you little cunt.” So snarls the ferocious beauty in the poetic finale to Hollywood Boulevard, a Corman produce... Read more »

Cinema so often instructs us what to think. Lighting, score, even camera angles push buttons in our minds, clearly identifying friend and foe. Then we have T... Read more »

In perhaps the ultimate example of method acting, Andy Lau has spent his life as godson to Deanie Ip before playing opposite her in a dramatic role that mirr... Read more »

As an 11 year old boy I used to tape late night Hammer horror films on VHS and watch them in awe before school. Fast forward to present day and viewed throug... Read more »

It began with Shiri, the sexy South Korean sleeper that broke box-office records in 1999. This was when South Korea bucked the universal tendency to rely upo... Read more »