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For four decades New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has cruised the Big Apple on his Schwinn bicycle like a fashionista superhero. His batcave ... Read more »

Gorging on art-house cinema, as Edinburgh film-nuts are currently doing at the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival, can sometimes feel like being on a... Read more »

It’s the final day of Glasgow Film Festival 2012 and I’m up with the lark to speak to Welsh director Gareth Evans, the man responsible for the mo... Read more »

What’s the best Scottish film you’ve never heard of? Death Watch is the answer. Almost unseen since its release in 1980, this Glasgow-set s... Read more »

The moving picture element of the Whatever Gets You Through The Night collaboration was born out of necessity. “Because there are so many musicians, th... Read more »

Within the goldfish bowl of Glasgow, is there any question more loaded than “what’s your team, pal?” As far as most taxi drivers are concer... Read more »

Steven Soderbergh has form as a cinematic tease. Films like Full Frontal, the Sasha Grey-starring Girlfriend Experience and Sex, Lies and Videotapes, his Pal... Read more »

On a seven mile sandbank to the south-east of a sinking city, a festival of cinema has taken place for seven decades. Venice’s Mostra del Cinema may be... Read more »

"There are no waves; there is only the ocean." So said Claude Chabrol, a filmmaker who knew a thing or two about filmmaking waves, given that his 1958 debut,... Read more »

Konrad Begg’s debut feature concerns a low-rent songsmith, Sean (Maguire), who inadvertently leaves his bride-to-be, Amy (Lorna Anderson), strande... Read more »

Somewhere between entering through a gravel car park filled with Ford Zodiacs and their quiffed mod owners and eating birthday cake with complete strangers a... Read more »

On 26 June, the US Supreme Court dissolved the country’s Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that denied benefits to same-sex couples legally marrie... Read more »

It’s late September and Paul Wright is in a wet and blustery London. “Aye, man, no bad,” he says in his soft Scottish brogue when I ask him... Read more »

It’s the 70th edition of the Venezia and maybe the old gal is starting to feel her age. Younger pretenders like Toronto and Telluride, the two festival... Read more »

It was touch and go there for a while; some reckoned they wouldn’t come. Bleary-eyed critics were despairing at the thought of having to file another t... Read more »

Of the many fine jokes in 21 Jump Street, the surprisingly sturdy movie adaptation of the Johnny Depp-starring 80s TV series of the same name, the smartest i... Read more »

Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire is 90 minutes of glorious pulp fiction. It opens with two title cards: the first reads ‘a rock‘n’roll f... Read more »

In its setup and execution, Tom at the Farm, the fourth film from Québécois wonderkid Xavier Dolan, is pure Polanski. The title character (play... Read more »

It’s time for the customary lucky-dip selection of the most promising-looking titles at this year's Glasgow Film Festival. The picks below, however, ar... Read more »

Lukas Moodysson is slouched on a sofa of a Soho bar the day after his ebullient new film, We Are the Best!, had its UK premiere at the London Film Festival. ... Read more »

Under the Skin, the long awaited cinematic return of Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth), opens with a hallucinatory dance of light and sound, which in turn ... Read more »

“‘I don’t know about you, Miss Kitty, but I feel so much yummier,’” says Xavier Dolan, as we’re sat off the terrace of a ... Read more »

“I first met Garnet four years ago. At the time I was searching for stories to turn in to feature documentary films – it takes quite an amazing s... Read more »

“You don’t even sound like the ones on Bravo,” says a blonde prom queen to a recently outed gay student, whom she's grooming to be her &lsq... Read more »

“Life is like a pebble dropped in a pool.” So muses Tony Benn near the start of this heartfelt look back on his life. If this is true, the late M... Read more »

It may be hard to believe today, but major film festivals like Cannes and Edinburgh were once socially conscious arenas in which the various issues and injus... Read more »

There are two great film festivals with screenings shared across Glasgow and Edinburgh this month (Take One Action and Scotland Loves Anime). But if you fanc... Read more »

“Our festival was founded upon the belief that arts and film have the power to raise awareness of social injustice and to stimulate change,” writ... Read more »

Even if you’ve not seen French-Canadian film La Grande Seduction, this English-language remake will give you déjà vu. Its sentimental plo... Read more »

What makes Glasgow Film Festival so inviting is its palpable concern for the paying public; its chief goal is that its audience has a rewarding time at the p... Read more »