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The Early Starters Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have notoriously short memories; when casting their Oscar ballots they tend to... Read more »

Whiplash, the second feature from American filmmaker Damien Chazelle, should come with a stringent warning to overprotective parents. Not for its sexual cont... Read more »

Lili loves Hagen, but Lili’s father disapproves. He kicks Hagen out on to the streets of Budapest, where he’s used and abused and thrown in the s... Read more »

It’s a crisp February afternoon in Edinburgh and Will Anderson is showing The Skinny around fellow animator Ainslie Henderson’s compact Summerhal... Read more »

Peter Bogdanovich’s movies come marinaded in his love of Hollywood's Golden Age. In this dizzy soufflé he’s channelling Lubitsch, Sturges ... Read more »

Walter Hill is speaking to The Skinny from a cupboard in his LA home. “My wife’s given me this little broom closet to do my work in. Only a direc... Read more »

The film world needs no excuse to celebrate the work of Orson Welles. But the filmmaker would have turned 100 this year, so there are more opportunities than... Read more »

Before the multicultural X-Men and the superhero supergroup Avengers there were the Fantastic Four, the brainiacs of the Marvel universe. Their leader R... Read more »

England-born, US-raised Iranian filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour has a tip for any immigrant alighting upon the shores of her adopted homeland: “You come to... Read more »

The nerd Here we have the easiest to spot of the movie tribes; they wear their hearts on their sleeves – or, to be more accurate, they wear the insign... Read more »

Scotish Cinema at Filmhouse Bill Patterson in Comfort and Joy Us Scots aren’t great at celebrating our own cinema, so it’s pleasing to see Film... Read more »

King mischief-maker Louis Theroux opens his My Scientology Movie by saying it’s his “dream to see a more positive side of the church.” It ... Read more »

The Southside Film Festival, now in its fifth year, was a pop-up long before pop-ups were all the rage. Its appropriation of non-cinema spaces has become its... Read more »

Irish writer-director Lenny Abrahamson is known for his small-scale, dryly funny films, but he's come under a new level of scrutiny with his latest movie Roo... Read more »

First time director Lorenzo Vigas's From Afar is a gritty and cinematic study in desire and repression, set on the mean streets of Caracas, Venezuela From A... Read more »

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, based on Emma Donoghue's best-selling novel, is a beautiful and humane response to inhumanity Joy (Brie Larson... Read more »

Livewire filmmaker Danny Boyle on working with Michael Fassbender, making Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs script cinematic and the long-awaited Trainspotting 2 Da... Read more »

Had enough of Elf, It's a Wonderful Life and The Muppets Christmas Carol? Will you maim a family member if you're forced to watch Love Actually again this ye... Read more »

Little Shop of Horrors Sing Along Frank Oz’s take on the Broadway musical based on Roger Corman's scuzzy original is a delight. A never-better Rick ... Read more »

Imagine political oppression, strict control of the press, repression of the arts. If you think we have it tough now, this was the atmosphere in Spain for 36... Read more »

Katie Says Goodbye Dir. Wayne Roberts Wayne Roberts' debut centres on the titular truck stop waitress, who lives in a remote corner of Arizona and i... Read more »

Is it GSFF’s tenth anniversary or only its ninth? Well to tell you the truth, during all the exciting previous editions of the festival, we kind of los... Read more »

In many ways, it's never been easier to make a film. Getting hold of a decent digital camera is relatively easy; you've probably got one in your pocket.... Read more »

Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier makes his way across the Atlantic for Louder than Bombs, a New York-set family drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrn... Read more »

AiM: African Hopes, Beats and Dreams The mighty Africa in Motion are heading to CCA in June to shed some light on pertinent and contemporary issue... Read more »

To celebrate the release of The Neon Demon, HOME in Manchester screen NWR Presents, a season of films personally curated by Nicolas Winding Refn, all of whic... Read more »

Joe Dante's 1993 film Matinee, a celebration of art over war, movies over Armageddon, is the closest thing the Gremlins director has to a lost masterpiece. S... Read more »

We speak to filmmaker Justin Kelly about true-crime tale King Cobra, in which James Franco stars as a porn producer ready to kill to work with the hottest ne... 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 »

The Skinny presents: Trouble Every Day With Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis immerses us in an atmosphere engorged with desire and dread. Essentially a twi... Read more »