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“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 »

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 »