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Attack the Block opens on a scene as prosaic as any social realist film, with a gang of hoodies (the kind of kids that give Daily Mail readers palpitations) ... Read more »

Last year mumblecore went mainstream. This ethereal, unfortunately named genre is no longer ghettoised to hip indie film festivals SXSW and Sundance. For the... Read more »

Some documentarians like to get in front of the camera, where they become the heroic protagonist, hunting down crooked CEOs or corrupt politicians. Others ar... Read more »

Critics love to give films labels – I apologise on behalf of my reductive brethren – but more often than not these categorisations can be on-the-... Read more »

Ever since D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark documentary Don't Look Back, where the sardonic backstage antics of a young Bob Dylan proved as entertaining... Read more »

Last night saw the launch of Glasgow Film Festival’s 2012 programme – it’s bigger, bolder and busier than ever. But before you take a highl... Read more »

The headline movie for June is Prometheus. I’ve been cool on the prospect of the Alien prequel, primarily because the last time Ridley Scott made a gre... Read more »

Two marvellous comedies are released in April: Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre (6 Apr) and Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress (27 Apr). Film... Read more »

The title of Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens’ latest film, The Divide, describes exactly what the film does to its audiences. Before its UK premiere a... Read more »

Double Take For film fans, there’s nothing more indulgent than a double bill. Okay, apart from maybe a triple or quadruple bill. Sadly, though, specia... Read more »

The central character in Berberian Sound Studio, Peter Strickland’s 1970s-set sophomore feature, is Gilderoy, a crumpled English sound engineer pl... Read more »

So it turned out that the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival was rather good. The successes were many: a consistently strong programme of new films, ... Read more »

Picture the scene. It’s Christmas Eve. A fresh dusting of snow has turned the quaint, picket fence-lined streets of Kingston Falls into a living snowgl... Read more »

While scanning the programme of flicks in the upcoming Glasgay! festival, two categories draw they eye: the high profile art-house darlings that have broken ... Read more »

Ah, the road movie and the bromance, two sub-genres in no danger of dying out anytime soon thanks to their ubiquity on our cinema screens. But they've been w... Read more »

According to David Thomson, cinema’s great dissident critic, the putrid stench of death hangs in the air at your local multiplex, commingling with the ... Read more »

Scan Ken Loach's filmography and you have a pretty effective barometer for the quality of life for the people of the UK at the fuzzy end of the stick. For th... Read more »

On the response"We had over fifteen hundred submissions in the end – I think the exact figure was something like 1529 – which resulted in about 3... Read more »

The sparkiest scene in Peter Jackson’s eagerly anticipated return to Middle Earth is a battle of wits between Gollum (Lord of the Rings' tragic, ring-c... Read more »

Caroline Sascha Cogez is not your typical filmmaker, and those who venture to Glasgow Short Film Festival’s retrospective of her work on 8 and 10 Febru... Read more »

So it’s official. The 2013 edition of Glasgow Film Festival will be the biggest yet, with 368 screenings and events taking place in 27 venues spread ac... Read more »

Set in 1971, Something in the Air is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s ebullient tribute to the kids who had to follow in the footsteps... Read more »

If you’re a UK-based film fan, there are few things quite as exciting as leafing through a hot-off-the-presses Edinburgh International Film Festival br... Read more »

Scotland isn’t great at recognising its considerable cultural achievements. When it comes to some of our brightest artistic lights, we seem to hide the... Read more »

Forgotten Frenchman The last hundred or so years of movies are a treasure trove. You can spend your life with your nose stuck in film books or scouring cine... Read more »

Frances (Gerwig) is in freefall. At the grand old age of 27, her hopes of becoming a professional dancer hang by a ballet pump. She’s broke, has no per... Read more »

Brian De Palma’s skill as a director is matched by his glorious bad taste. Several filmmakers have had the gall to mine laughs out of serial killer mat... Read more »

The last De Palma film to not receive a theatrical outing in the UK was 2002’s feverish noir Femme Fatale. With Passion making its debut on t... Read more »

The Crash Reel, Lucy Walker’s compelling new documentary, has it all: sports rivalry, You’ve Been Framed-style carnage, family drama, a... Read more »

‘DANGER,’ reads the sign outside an abandoned quarry in the Lake District, ‘KEEP OUT.’ It’s good advice, for inside that mine d... Read more »