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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 »

Do you ever wish the likes of EuroTrip and The Craft received the same kind of forensic critical scrutiny reserved for canonised classics? Charlie Lyne certa... Read more »

Aaron Katz is sitting in the corner booth of a cosy London restaurant, but he looks dressed for the elements in a chunky blue pullover. Perhaps the 33-year-o... Read more »

It’s 8.30am on a bright February morning in Glasgow. The Falling, a heady tale of teenage friendship and mass hysteria, played to a full house at the c... Read more »

“I’m the perv,” says François Ozon, who's sitting in a London hotel wearing a grey shirt, a pink scarf and an impish smile. Those wh... Read more »

To the newly-minted HOME this May bank holiday weekend, to check out the sprouting buds of its film programme. The £25 million multi-arts venue may sti... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced that its 69th edition will come to a close with the world premiere of Scott Graham’s second feature... Read more »

Peter Bogdanovich’s cinema is one of elegy; he’s always looking back. “I guess a certain number of my pictures have an elegiac quality... Read more »

Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's gripping doc is structured like a boxing movie, but in this case the pugilists are intellectual heavyweights. In the ... Read more »

The Plant begins with a mystery: two men with numbers tattooed on their necks and wearing identical outfits (white tees, grey sweatpants) appear to be p... Read more »

"Merry Christmas Eve, bitch!" So goes the opening line of Tangerine, a single-night screwball set on the West Hollywood strip that comes at you like a Jim Ja... Read more »

Jerzy Skolimovski's latest is a fractured puzzle movie in which several characters collide in dizzyingly constructed vignettes of cosmic timing. The epi... Read more »

Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín continues to scratch at his nation's dark past with fifth feature The Club, a chilling study of guilt and punishment f... Read more »

How do giants of cinema fall through the cracks of critical opinion? It’s a question you’ll be asking yourself if you make it along to Glasgow Fi... Read more »

No genre is in more need of a shakeup than the romantic comedy. We've seen enough meet cutes and last-ditch dashes to the train station/airport to know that ... Read more »