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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 »

Few films so evocatively capture the confusion and self-discovery of childhood than those of French filmmaker Céline Sciamma. Her debut feature, Water... Read more »

TBEMH opens with a series of subversions. Half-a-dozen grey-haired archetypes (including Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith) stick two fingers up t... Read more »

Today’s cinema is obsessed with the past. In the last twelve months filmgoers have been transported back to 20s Paris, the golden age of Hollywood, and... Read more »

Avoid basements – that’s what cinema has taught us. It is the room of the house reserved for horror, and that’s its function in Michael, Ma... Read more »

Through a haze of marijuana smoke we’re introduced to Jason Segel’s Jeff, a 30-year-old galumph who makes the actor’s earlier man-child cha... Read more »

Electronic two-piece High Places, aka Rob Barber and Mary Pearson, are in playful mood when they speak to The Skinny from their LA studio ahead of their upco... Read more »

Haywire is the kind of lucid thriller Paul Greengrass might make if he ever invested in a tripod. Breakneck action with graceful, but nasty, fight sequences ... Read more »

Cinema can be a passive experience, with the audience members voyeurs left to interpret images and ideas alone in the dark. But for a piece of art to live it... Read more »

What a difference twelve months make. This time last year, selecting a film to see at Edinburgh's 65th International Film Festival was a bit like choosing wh... Read more »

Motion pictures have a lot to answer for. They lie to us, to contradict Godard, at 24 frames a second. Think of all the poor kids who put themselves through ... Read more »

The standout moment in Take This Waltz, the second feature from Canadian actor-turned-director Sarah Polley, takes place on a cheesy fairground rid... Read more »

“It’s time to redraw the map of movie history that we have in our heads; it’s factually inaccurate, and racist by omission.” So says ... Read more »

Everything or Nothing is a breezy document of the James Bond franchise (books, television and movies) that’s as well-put-together as its iconic title c... Read more »

You’ve got to feel for Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney), the lead character and narrator of Hyde Park on Hudson. Not only is her kissing cousin, President ... Read more »