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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 »

A GFF17 highlight looks to be HEXA's sonic response to David Lynch's Factory Photographs, the legendary director's collection of black-and-white st... Read more »

While today you’ll find women at every level of the astronomical community, they're still wildly underrepresented. The numbers vary from country to cou... Read more »

Glasgow Short Film Festival is now approaching its tenth edition, and over the course of that near-decade it’s flourished to become Scotland’s bi... Read more »

Berlin-based artist Phil Collins was born in Runcorn, but his outlook on politics and art was formed in Manchester. He moved to the city in the early 90s to ... Read more »

The films of Sofia Coppola are like long, hot, lazy afternoons. You want to drink them in, luxuriate in them. Coppola’s first feature, The Virgin ... Read more »

Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s nerve-shredding epic based on the evacuation of allied soldiers from Dunkirk beach in 1940, is out this weekend and looks ... Read more »

The much-loved English actor Roger Moore has died age 89 at his home in Switzerland, surrounded by his family. The news was revealed on the actor’s Twi... Read more »

Donkeyote  Donkeyote, Spanish director Chico Pereira's feature made with the Scottish Documentary Institute, centres on an eccentric septuage... Read more »

Daphne, the title character of Peter Mackie Burns' spunky first feature, is both a force of nature and a bit of a mess. This contradiction is matched by Emil... Read more »

In the German legend of Faust, the eponymous protagonist trades his soul to the Devil for eternal youth. Faust (1926), the Weimar-era masterwork from F. W. M... Read more »