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Gareth Edwards is a cinematic Renaissance man. For his debut feature, Monsters, he is credited as its director, writer, production designer, cinematographer,... Read more »

In 2001, Joe Cornish, then best known as the lanky half of cult late night TV double act Adam and Joe, was mugged by a gang of inner city youths near his hom... Read more »

Recent wedding comedies (Bride Wars, 27 Dresses) have been about as enjoyable as stepping on an upturned plug, but Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids emphatically... Read more »

Horrible Bosses offers a dastardly scenario — what if you could get away with murdering that obnoxious superior who makes your daily grind a misery? Th... Read more »

It’s sometime in the early 90s. I’m snuggled under my He-Man duvet covers scouring late night TV for a movie to quench my healthy preteen obsessi... Read more »

As the trees begin to turn various shades of red, so too do our cinema screens with brains, intestines and blood being gratuitously splattered as horror fans... Read more »

My Saturday nights are wild. At around 8.55pm I stick on the kettle, pop a slice of Mother’s Pride into the toaster, fire up the ol’ idiot box to... Read more »

Mumblecore king Mark Duplass (think of a smug, male Greta Gerwig) plays Jack, a 30-something slacker who’s struggling to get over the death of his brot... Read more »

Everything but the kitchen sinkEveryone agrees it’s been a stellar year for UK filmmaking, but what I find most interesting is that the year’s be... Read more »

Chief damsel in Whit Stillman’s long awaited filmmaking return following some Malickesque downtime is Violet (Gerwig), an aggressively altruistic ... Read more »

The title of Xavier Gens’ gristly post-apocalyptic survival movie is working on a myriad of levels. Firstly, it’s the heavy duty door that separa... Read more »

4.30pm, GMT, 19 March. I’m re-watching the final scene of one of the great films of the 1990s, The Last Days of Disco, as a bit of last minute research... Read more »

Self mutilation, kinky sex in vehicles, possible alternative reality – the teaser trailer for Cosmopolis in like a mainline hit of pure D... Read more »

Life isn’t half as grim in Ken Loach-land as his detractors would have you believe. For five decades his angry rallying cries against the ruling classe... Read more »

Even before the dust had settled on last year’s disappointing Edinburgh International Film Festival, critics of all stripes were weighing in to examine... Read more »

I’m standing at the back of a handsomely adorned grand room of an upmarket hotel in the heart of Edinburgh watching a curious ritual take place: a mass... Read more »

It's roughly the mid-point of the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival. I’m sitting in the Filmhouse bar, the festival's main hub, and I feel env... Read more »

There’s a great tragedy at the heart of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but it isn’t the crippling loneliness felt by its protagonist Charlie (L... Read more »

Silver Linings Playbook is a romantic comedy about two bipolar screw-ups trying to win a dance competition. Chris Tucker is in a supporting role. It should b... Read more »

This Friday’s cinema releases are swarming with fraudsters, moles and shysters. In Bart Layton’s Sundance darling The Imposter, a grieving Texan... Read more »

The meat of Ang Lee's visually sumptuous adaptation of Yann Martel's book club favourite is an Edward Lear-like story about a skinny vegetarian boy faring th... Read more »

While watching Jack Reacher, one gets the impression there’s a great satire to be made from Lee Child’s meat-headed crime series about a m... Read more »

Wreck-It Ralph’s primary source of pleasure is nostalgia: it’s a CGI time-machine for those who misspent their youth developing RSIs on bleeping ... Read more »

Antonio Campos doesn’t go in for feel-good. The Afterschool director’s second feature, Simon Killer, focuses on a young American in Paris who fal... Read more »

Marco Bellocchio's euthanasia drama Dormant Beauty is based on the real-life case of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who fell into a coma for two decades and w... Read more »

Scotland, 2011. A young filmmaker named Will is attempting to remake lost Russian classic Long Bird with the film's original star, Longbird, back i... Read more »

Sitcoms, as a general rule, make for lousy movies. But that didn’t stop the British film industry churning them out in the 1970s with the nonchalance o... Read more »

The Old One I’ll say one thing about Edinburgh International Film Festival (June): it has stamina. Held in Auld Reekie each year since 1947, it’... Read more »

Picture Sheffield. What images flood your cerebral cortex? Smelting pots of molten steel? Flat caps? Pigeon fanciers? These stereotypes, and others, make up ... Read more »

Pity the Scottish film critic. While the other art forms covered in this paper are saturated with local talent, emerging filmmakers come at a trickle; it see... Read more »