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How does one go about adapting for the stage a beguiling piece of meta-noir? That seems to be the primary challenge faced by playwright Duncan Macmillan and ... Read more »

John Waters has been transgressing ever since he was in short trousers. His original sin, appropriately enough, happened in a house of God. “My mother ... Read more »

This St Patrick's Day, many of you lager and ale drinkers are likely to break your routine to sample a snifter of Ireland's national drink. Some of you might... Read more »

What got into John Huston in the 1970s? In the decade previous, the once-great director had begun churning out arthritic prestige pictures – see 1966's... Read more »

Draw a Venn diagram of art and science interactions, and you might assume little overlap between both circles. The former is driven by emotion and self-expre... Read more »

The auteur theory gets a bad rap. Ever since the great New Yorker critic Pauline Kael eviscerated the notion in her angry 1963 essay Circles and Squares, man... Read more »

When God's Own Country, the first film from actor-turned-director Francis Lee, premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, it was quickly labele... Read more »

On 21 June, the 71st Edinburgh International Film Festival will kick off with its best opening film in years, Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country, a ... Read more »

In theory, the space opera should be the most wild and imaginative sub-genre in cinema, but it tends to be quite the opposite. Almost all made post-1977 have... Read more »

If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that Emmerdale Farm is a sham. The opening credits for that surprisingly salacious soap opera promises roll... Read more »

To the best of our knowledge, Royal, the directorial debut by Flying Lotus, is the first film inspired by a GIF. The GIF in question was a black and white ph... Read more »

The artistic process is under the spotlight in Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait. For its subject, Alberto Giacometti, it’s an ordeal, but watching ... Read more »

Once the bleeding edge nightmare of 90s science fiction movies, virtual reality (VR) is now on the cusp of being an everyday reality. The tech is already in ... Read more »

The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including HOME's Soundtrack season and FACT's rare screening of Jacques Rivette'... Read more »

Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK's number one documentary festival, kicked off yesterday with opening film Where to Invade Next and a stirring Q&A with its dir... Read more »

If you walked into Site Gallery during this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest you’d see a strange but soon to be very familiar sight. Scattered around th... Read more »

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 »