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Anyone tempted to gripe about plot revelations in the following review should aim all their fanboy wrath square at The Force Awakens' writer-director JJ... Read more »

Mavis is a celebration of Mavis Staples, the mightiest pair of lungs in family R&B group The Staple Singers. Even at 75 years old, she is a force of natu... Read more »

Is it just us, or is South American film blowing up right now? We all remember the new wave of Mexican cinema in the mid-00s, the aftershock of which can cle... Read more »

Which filmmaker's special effects leave you most in awe? You might be tempted to suggest one of the great blockbuster specialists, say Steven Spielberg or Ja... Read more »

Picture the scene: Glasgow Film Theatre, 24 February. A packed audience sits in the darkened cinema auditorium waiting for their film to start, a frisson in ... Read more »

What if Michael Powell had never met Emeric Pressburger? Or Mr and Mrs Coen decided to not have any more children after their son Joel was born? The world wo... Read more »

The fashion industry takes a beating this month, with Nicolas Winding Refn’s brutal fashion world-set horror The Neon Demon and fashion PR satire&... Read more »

Acclaimed video artist Omer Fast discusses his intriguing and puzzling adaptation of Tom McCarthy's cult novel Remainder Pity the video artist who tries to ... Read more »

For the last decade or so, 27-year-old American actor Brady Corbet has carved out a career as a character actor for some of the greatest auteurs (Haneke, Von... Read more »

The best film events happening in Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester this week, including The Passenger at HOME, Suspiria at FACT and Thelma & Louise a... Read more »

Ahead of the Scottish premiere of Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party at SQIFF, we speak to the film’s director, Stephen Cone, about his sensitive appr... Read more »

Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is that rare beast: an awe-inspiring sci-fi that delivers both spectacle and smarts Crafting science-fiction films that are both ... Read more »

The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including two films by Ousmane Sembène and Anthony Minghella’s The ... Read more »

Psycho returns to Manchester this Halloween in the form of Psycho Live, with an orchestral score provided by Manchester Camerata. But Alfred Hitchcock's 1960... Read more »

Don’t directors grow up fast? One day they’re making kinky fairy tales (Criminal Lovers), mischievous sex comedies (Sitcom) or hair-raising horro... Read more »

We’ve created a monster. Or, more precisely, a large group of hate-watching hipsters out there have created a monster. And the monster's name is Tommy ... Read more »

Actors can be boring, not because they have nothing interesting to say, but because they have teams of publicists filing away at every spiky edge to their ch... Read more »

Earlier this year, the venerable New Yorker critic Richard Brody tweeted a typically didactic thought into the world: “If you think that someone&r... Read more »

For five decades, Ken Loach has used cinema as a tool to expose social injustices within society. With his latest, I, Daniel Blake, Loach turns his attention... Read more »

London is many things to many people, and much more than the tourist cliches of red buses, West End musicals and Big Ben. As James Geary famously said &ldquo... Read more »

The BFI London Film Festival returns again in October, and as usual it’s bursting at the seams with some of the year’s most anticipated film titl... Read more »

Little is guaranteed with Steven Soderbergh. Since he kicked off his filmmaking career 28 years ago with stylish chamber piece Sex, Lies, and Videotape, he&r... Read more »

For the 70th consecutive year, the cobbled streets of Edinburgh have groaned under the strain of the largest and most exciting arts festival in the world. As... Read more »

The Beast KinoKlub pay tribute to Walerian Borowczyk, the ingenius Polish animator who turned softcore surrealist. In its 97 minutes runtime, this prepost... Read more »

International comedy smash Toni Erdmann is a shaggy-dog story about a father and daughter that's both biting and tender. Director Maren Ade explains how she ... Read more »

“The translation is false!” Paul Verhoeven is sat in front of a sold-out audience within London’s film-lover Mecca, the BFI Southbank, for ... Read more »

The ever versatile Olivier Assayas returns to genre territory with strange and mysterious ghost story Personal Shopper, which centres on a knockout performan... Read more »

Independent music venues are much more than places to watch bands. They’re not just stop-offs on tours for the acts, or places to hear live music while... Read more »

The 13th Glasgow Film Festival came to a close last night with the world premiere of RD Laing biopic Mad to be Normal. There was plenty of applause in Glasgo... Read more »

At the heart of any buoyant cultural scene you’ll find great buildings, from Warhol’s Factory to the Haçienda in Manchester. Not that... Read more »