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80s fantasy romp Highlander made a triumphant return to Scotland with a 30th anniversary gala screening at the 70th Edinburgh Film Festival. Guest of honour ... Read more »

Pandora’s Box GW Pabst's vivid silent film stars Louise Brooks as Lulu, a free-spirited single woman with no shortage of men drawn to her. We unders... Read more »

The month offers up films based on work by the talented Miss Highsmith, a trio of multi-sensory film screenings at Edinburgh Festival's newest addition and t... Read more »

With The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn delves into the depraved world of the LA fashion industry, creating a film with a beautiful sheen and dark core "B... Read more »

UK distributor Metrodome, whose recent films include Tangerine, Frances Ha and What We Do in the Shadows, have been placed in administration, with most of th... Read more »

Amy Adams can do it all: sing, dance, and now, in new sci-fi film Arrival, talk to aliens. Here the talented actor tells us about female characterisation and... Read more »

Attack the Block Dir. Joe Cornish Given Joe Cornish's form with tomfoolery (stuffed toy movie parodies, Song Wars), when we heard he was moving into film... Read more »

The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including HOME's preview of Prevenge and the latest No Gloss Festival Frankenst... Read more »

The programme for this year’s Scottish Queer International Festival has just been announced. From opening film Strike a Pose (29 Sep), which checks bac... Read more »

You’ll find all of the above in Pio Abad’s new show, Notes on Decomposition (16 Sep-30 Oct). The London-based, Manila-born artist studied at... Read more »

Early Almodóvar: Law of Desire & Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Two of the early films from Pedro Almodóvar that really ... Read more »

Leafing through the catalogue for the 30th Leeds International Film Festival reveals page after page of cinematic delights, particularly the rich vein of cin... Read more »

Kenneth Lonergan films centre on fatal accidents. You Can Count on Me, a car crash. Margaret, a bus crash. In Manchester by the Sea – an equal to ... Read more »

Boxer Vinny Pazienza (Miles Teller, goofy and charming) is not much of a pugilist. Not at the start of Ben Younger’s by-the-numbers biopic, at least. W... Read more »

Ghostbusters (for the MRA in your life) For a culture so used to reboots, the apoplectic online vitriol that met the announcement of an all-female Gho... Read more »

With the shadow of Brexit hanging over our heads – a bit like the Sword of Damocles, only it’s been placed there by us – the annual French ... Read more »

Say what you want about David Fincher, but he doesn’t do anything half-arsed. Not since the great Stanley Kubrick has there been a more demanding direc... Read more »

So you’ve landed a place at film school and you’re looking for inspiration. You’d do worse to learn from these seven early shorts by master... Read more »

Andrew Haigh’s three films so far – Greek Pete, a pseudo-documentary on the life of a rent boy; tender romance Weekend; and heartbreaking marriag... Read more »

Another year and another round of Christmas movies (Christmas with the Coopers, The Night Before, Krampus) have hit cinemas hoping to be taken to the public'... Read more »

The American is low on incident but rich in mood. Watching Corbijn’s follow-up to Control (2006) is like flicking through a portfolio of the former mus... Read more »

Another awards ceremony is on the horizon but you'll be glad to hear there isn't a stuttering king in sight. The BAFTA in Scotland New Talent Awards 2011 wil... Read more »

Where have all the heroes gone? In days of movie-going yore audiences would flock to the brave antics of wise-cracking maverick cops and nice-but-dim sportin... Read more »

Submarine is a breath of fresh air, a British film that dares to brush off the two shackles that have bogged down our national cinema for more than three dec... Read more »

The Wild West wasn’t a place for womenfolk, or so the movies would have us believe. It was a macho world of cutthroat bandits, whiskey drinking sheriff... Read more »

There’s a scene in Bridesmaids, the new comedy written by and starring SNL alumna Kristen Wiig, that everyone’s talking about. It involves six wo... Read more »

It’s only the second day of the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival but I think I’ve already seen one of its gems. I say think, because th... Read more »

Wouldn’t you know it, you wait a lifetime for a great film about sperm donation and two come along in quick succession — sorry Whoopi Goldberg an... Read more »

The fate of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has been on the minds of film critics, arts journalists and film fans over the last few months a... Read more »

The Qatsi trilogy has been described as a one-idea film series, the idea being that we're fucking up our planet. Watched consecutively over three nights, as ... Read more »