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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 »

Think vertically with Nespresso Talents 2016 and your film could be showcased in a private screening during the Cannes Film Festival Cinema doesn’t si... Read more »

Tom Geens tells us about the tightrope he had to walk getting his moving film debut Couple in a Hole to the screen. The plot of the debut feature from Belgi... Read more »

On the first floor of Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum, home to the largest collection of classical Finnish art, hangs The Fighting Capercaillies by Ferdi... Read more »

Michael Caton-Jones is back later this year with Urban Hymn, which the Rob Roy director describes as "a sort of Ken Loach musical." Ahead of his "In Conversa... Read more »

Carrie Arguably the finest adaptation of a Stephen King novel (fans of The Shining might disagree), this is the film that helped a young Brian D... Read more »

Brady Corbet’s behind-the-camera debut, The Childhood of a Leader, arrives in cinemas this week and it’s one of the year’s most impressive ... Read more »

Gentrification, class tensions and coming of age commingle in this vivid slice of life from Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On), who’s slow... Read more »

Little Sister is a tonic to anyone jaded by the slick, smug and sentimental comedy-dramas (or ‘dramedies’) that have become the mainstay of Ameri... Read more »

Bill Forsyth turns 70 Bill Forsyth, Scotland’s greatest living filmmaker, turns 70 on 29 July, and GFT are throwing him a little do in the form of a t... Read more »

‘Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier) The great Bertrand Tavernier, perhaps France’s finest post-Nouvelle Vague director, and certainly one of ... Read more »

The best film events happening in the North this week, including the annual POUTFest at HOME and Wim Wender's The American Friend at Hyde Park Picture House ... Read more »

The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including a tribute to Antonia Bird at HOME, Manchester and Kathryn Bigelow's fi... Read more »

From a Sundance indie to the Spider-Man reboot, it's been an eventful six months for emerging actor Michael Barbieri. We speak to the 14-year-old about keepi... Read more »

Top Five Scalarama Events in Liverpool Think Cinema presents The Headless Woman There are shades of Hitchcock and Antonioni in this discombobulating ... Read more »