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Not another spin on 'The Scottish Play', William Oldroyd’s tense, darkly comic feature debut is actually an adaptation of a 19th century Russian n... Read more »

Neruda, Pablo Larraín’s third film in the space of two years, is in some ways a blending of the modes of his prior Chilean filmography and his o... Read more »

Returning for its fifth instalment (and second in a row at the lavish Picturehouse Central), the team behind this year’s Sundance London gave British a... Read more »

A regular writing collaborator of David Wain (on the likes of Wet Hot American Summer and The State), Michael Showalter’s own directorial eff... Read more »

Aside from sharing a title, thriller Hounds of Love has little obviously in common with the Kate Bush song and album of the same name, though it ends with an... Read more »

“Someone said it’s very difficult to define, this movie. For me, that is the biggest praise.” South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is speaki... Read more »

Columbus, the masterful feature debut of director Kogonada – an academic turned video essayist for the likes of Sight & Sound –&nbs... Read more »

When Marnie Was There is being billed as the final in-house film from animation giant Studio Ghibli. A European co-production, The Red Turtle, has just ... Read more »

After taking a year off in 2015, the team behind Sundance London returned this year to give UK audiences a snapshot of what's cooking on the American indie s... Read more »

When you have a movie where the main antagonistic force is based around toying with people’s fears, is it an inherent detriment if the film lacks a cer... Read more »

With A Bigger Splash, director Luca Guadagnino used an Italian summer as the backdrop for a vibrant, erotically charged clash of personalities. His latest ef... Read more »

Preview Following a very successful run in 2011, animation festival Scotland Loves Anime returns to Glasgow and Edinburgh in October for a third year, with ... Read more »

If Dark Skies’ opening credits didn’t tell you it was produced by the people who brought you the Paranormal Activity franchise and Insidious... Read more »

Stoker marks the English language debut of contemporary South Korean cinema poster child Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst), and the film is full of the strikin... Read more »

Taking place in the 11 days preceding the main event, Glasgow Youth Film Festival is an increasingly formidable entity in its own right, and this year’... Read more »

In Adam Leon’s debut feature, two teenaged graffiti artists, Malcolm (Hickson) and Sofia (Washington), attempt to leave their mark on an iconic monumen... Read more »

Since 2009, October’s Scotland Loves Anime festival has been a yearly highlight for the country’s animation fans, hosting various UK and European... Read more »

American Hustle is based on the Abscam sting operation of the late 70s and early 80s, but David O. Russell’s loose ensemble piece is more giddily ... Read more »

Though still brimming with some narrative bloat, the second Hobbit feature is overall a considerable improvement on its meandering, tonally scattered predece... Read more »

Gareth Evans’ The Raid took place over one day in a single locale; its narrative had an economy akin to old-school John Carpenter. For the sequel,... Read more »

With so many other cultural outlets curating events to tie in with the upcoming Commonwealth Games, it’s little surprise to see a film festival taking ... Read more »

Stations of the Cross is made up of 14 segments, each filmed in a single long and often static take, where meticulous compositions and dry performances drive... Read more »

The contemporary king of grim French cinema, director Bruno Dumont’s latest, the stark Camille Claudel 1915, is based on personal letters and medical r... Read more »

Nuclear radiation provides the unusual backdrop for a love affair in Grand Central. Tahar Rahim plays Gary, a man with an unclear criminal background who beg... Read more »

An adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel of the same name, Horns is a fantasy fable that works well for scattered stretches of its very bloated runtime, but i... Read more »

With Big Eyes, Tim Burton takes a break from his spate of auto-pilot adaptations (be it butchering Alice in Wonderland or remaking his own early short f... Read more »

What began with An Unexpected Journey ends in an altogether expected fashion, as Peter Jackson wraps up his frequently misguided three-part adaptation o... Read more »

Icelandic ensemble drama Life in a Fishbowl follows three wildly different people, whose lives (and double lives) intersect in strange ways, exploring the ro... Read more »

Uzumasa Limelight is a heartfelt tribute to the samurai-saturated chanbara films of Japanese cinema, particularly the largely unsung, intensely physical pros... Read more »

Made between his milestones American Gigolo and Mishima, Paul Schrader’s Cat People is a blend of the more commercially minded concerns of the former a... Read more »