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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 »

Society is part of the long tradition of horror as social commentary. Initially, however, Brian Yuzna's 1989 debut, with its flat cinematography and wooden p... Read more »

“I look like Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast crossed with Moby… Any bald man, basically… Mark Strong?” This is how Jason Wood, new artis... Read more »

Twilight (Juan Pablo Daranas Molina) Throughout the festival, audiences were treated to some delightful words from 'Andrei Tarkovsky' in the GSFF trailer:... Read more »

“She looks like a dog, she comes across as a dog, but... she’s no'.” Somewhere between this tantalising opening and its mysterious horror e... Read more »

There’s reason to celebrate this week. John Boorman, the great director of Point Blank, Deliverance and Arthurian epic Excalibur, has a new film out. E... Read more »

Another year, another Edinburgh Film Festival, and another artistic director steps into the breach. Enter Mark Adams, taking the AD baton from Chris Fujiwara... Read more »

She’s the star of the New York film scene, she was the toast of Berlin Film Festival last year, and now Josephine Decker comes to Glasgow Film Theatre ... Read more »

Andrew Haigh, director of Weekend and creator of HBO series Looking, is discussing Charlotte Rampling, the leading lady in his latest film, 45 Years. "I was ... Read more »

Two pivotal periods in Brian Wilson’s life collide in Bill Pohlad's dizzying study of the former Beach Boy. One concerns the creation of 1966‘s P... Read more »

Colin Kennedy’s adaptation of Ewan Morrison’s novel about a couple’s experience of the Glasgow swingers' scene opens with a limp joke about... Read more »