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With this second feature, John Cassavetes married the brio of his blistering debut, Shadows, with the sleek style of the studio system. The results are succe... Read more »

Kim Ki-duk's recent films have been as ugly in form as they have been in content. Moebius, his latest psychosexual drama, is no different. Shot hand-hel... Read more »

Life Itself is both an unflinching document of the last days of film critic Roger Ebert’s life and a densely packed celebration of his career. The form... Read more »

Familial relationships have proved a rich source of inspiration for filmmakers over the years; Oedipal tensions, Electra complexes and sibling rivalries are ... Read more »

Pollyanna McIntosh is talking a mile a minute as we walk through the lobby of the Manchester hotel that's her base while in town for Grimmfest, the Northwest... Read more »

Cold in July / The Guest (for children of the 80s) There was a distinctly 80s vibe on our cinema screens this year. Not that we’re complaining if th... Read more »

No genre is more derivative than that of horror. So rote are these scary movies that all one need do to score satirical points against them is point out thei... Read more »

Eden, the new film from French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve, tells the story of Paul, a DJ, and follows his turbulent 20-year career on the French Touch ... Read more »

Mia Hansen-Løve is sitting legs folded, Buddha-like, on a straight back chair in a London hotel conference room. In her hand she’s unconsci... Read more »

Phoenix opens like a horror movie. A disfigured woman, her face swaddled in bloody bandages, is crossing the German border following the fall of the Third Re... Read more »

Mia Hansen-Løve is a master of party scenes – the standout moments from her two previous features (Goodbye First Love and The Father of My ... Read more »

How would you describe a Noah Baumbach film? The answer to this question would’ve been easier to articulate in 2012. Back then, Baumbach had a clear MO... Read more »

Short films don’t have to be short on ambition or innovation – anyone who’s been following Glasgow Short Film Festival’s sharply cura... Read more »

HOME breaks its ¡Viva! cherry this month with a weekend celebrating the cinema of the largest Spanish speaking nation, Mexico. Festivities kick off wit... Read more »

45 Years Andrew Haigh's last film, Weekend, was a deeply felt story of a fledgling gay romance. In this one, a hit at the Berlinale, he's e... Read more »

The Skriker opens with a verbal assault. In some nightmarish netherworld, the title character, played by a pixie-haired, wild-eyed Maxine Peake, delivers a b... Read more »

Documentaries come in many shapes and sizes, their genres as plentiful and varied as those of their fiction film cousins. And Doc/Fest, the UK’s premie... Read more »

It’s easy to guess why audiences are turned off by Roger Avary. He won an Oscar co-scripting Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, but if his two dir... Read more »

Scalarama Born out of nostalgia for scurrilous London rep house the Scala, Scalarama has become one of the highlights of the UK's cinema calendar. Scotlan... Read more »

Scalarama simultaneously looks back and looks forward. It was initially conceived in honour of the Scala cinema, a London repertory theatre renowned in cinep... Read more »

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation & Spy (For those with James Bond fatigue) The 007 series felt a bit tired with latest instalment Spectre, bu... Read more »

“Do you know what he did, your cunting son?” Not a line you’d expect from a stop-motion claymation directed by a veteran of Wallace and Gro... Read more »

It’s Sunday afternoon at HOME, Manchester’s hub of independent cinema. The perfect time for a sedate matinee, perhaps. But that’s not on th... Read more »

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian, 1931) Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is not set in Scotland (this... Read more »

Hong Kong crime cinema Action fans rejoice! There’s a great programme of Hong Kong crime cinema happening across Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee this mo... Read more »

It’s late September 2015 and The Skinny is on the blower to Liverpudlian filmmaker Gavin Scott Whitfield to discuss his upcoming retrospective at HOME ... Read more »

“All boring films never be made again.” That’s the gambit adorning the brochure of this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival (16-20 Mar... Read more »

This lively doc follows five Palestinian women as they vie to be crowned the fastest broad on the West Bank. By either luck or design, each has a very distin... Read more »

William Wyler Here’s a good pub quiz question: which director received the most Best Director Oscar nominations? Steven Spielberg? John Ford? The an... Read more »

Goofy kids' horror-comedy that lets RL Stine's Goosebumps monsters, and a hysterically over-the-top Jack Black, run amok So, you’re making the movie v... Read more »