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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 »

A trip to your local world of cine would be a much more pleasant (and freaky) experience if the movie posters that festoon the cinema’s façade a... Read more »

Philomena’s premise couldn’t be more hokey. Based on true events, the film is an odd-couple road movie following smart-aleck journo Martin Sixsmi... Read more »

When film journalists write about documentary, there’s no cliché banded about more than the phrase “truth is stranger than fiction.”... Read more »

The World’s End (for childmen living in the past) Christmas is a time of misplaced nostalgia. That’s why this wise and witty comedy – part... Read more »

Consider Michael Cera’s recent film roles. There’s two-timing Scott (Scott Pilgrim vs the World), schizophrenic womaniser Nick (Youth in Revolt),... Read more »

Calvary, McDonagh’s followup to The Guard, opens with a brilliantly startling opening line. I won’t spoil it here, not that it matters though, as... Read more »

We’re used to our big screen law enforcers being a little bit edgy. From ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan to Lethal Weapon’s Riggs, movie cops ... Read more »

Morgan Neville has roped in an impressive rostrum of superstars as talking heads for this lively music doc – Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Won... Read more »

“Maybe we were doomed from the beginning.” So says bored dental hygienist Maggie (Wiig) in voiceover at the opening of The Skeleton Twins, before... Read more »

A perennial joy of Chris Fujiwara’s tenure as Edinburgh International Film Festival’s artistic director have been the retrospectives. In his shor... Read more »

In Jeffrey Schwarz debut feature documentary, Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story, he celebrated the legacy of the B-movie legend of the title. His next ... Read more »

1890s: It took cinema years to realise it was an art form. The initial thrill of the movies was their novelty, and this is no more evident than in the r... Read more »

In this age of social networking and self-promotion, we all kid ourselves. Cast an eye over your friends’ Twitter feeds and Facebook profiles and you&r... Read more »

“Potholing Expedition Seeks Recruits,” read an ad in Glasgow Film Festival’s 2014 brochure. “Recruits must be ready for anything, hav... Read more »

It’s a dark and stormy night, and I’m heading into the cinematic equivalent of a haunted house – Islington's Vue – to speak to indie ... Read more »

Stephen Fry was back on full luvvie-presenter mode last night for British film’s annual celebration of cinema and the award results were as tepid as hi... Read more »

Francois Ozon's favourite subject is the fluidity of sexual identity and desire. He's been playing with this theme since early short The Summer Dress ri... Read more »

Consider the coming-of-age movie for a second. Cast your mind through cinema's history and what titles flash before your eyes? Chances are there’ll be ... Read more »