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Is there a more romantic metaphor for watching a movie than the idea of “stepping through the silver screen”? When film – or art, or theatr... Read more »

With Twin Peaks coming back to TV, we have David Lynch on our mind. But where has he been for the last decade? Jon Nguyen, director of brilliant new doc Davi... Read more »

The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including HOME's Artist Film Weekender and screenings of classic Highsmith adapt... Read more »

When a festival reaches number 13, the superstitious out there might brace themselves for the worst. Scanning the brochure for the 13th edition of Glasgow Fi... Read more »

Donnie Darko, that irresistible tale of teen depression and time travel from 2001, is back in UK cinemas to mark its 15th anniversary. Writer-director Richar... Read more »

Over three jam-packed days, Manchester Animation Festival (15-17 Nov) offers up a snapshot of the creativity going on in the world of animation right now, as... Read more »

From Dawson’s Creek heartbreaker to indie royalty, we speak to the incomparable Michelle Williams, who gives a stunning performance in Manchester by th... Read more »

Ahead of the UK release of La La Land, Damien Chazelle's effervescent musical extravaganza paying homage to classic song and dance films, we suggest seven of... Read more »

“I’m an empath,” says Jennifer Reeder over a glitchy Skype call from Chicago. The American writer-director pauses, then quickly rephrases h... Read more »

The world is an ugly place at the moment. Turn on your TV or fire up your Twitter feed, and sandwiched between the new series of Bake Off and cute viral cat ... Read more »

1) Scalarama (aka Scaledonia) The Punk Singer The joyously sticky-floored Scala Cinema may be no more, but it lives on in spirit through Scalarama, an annu... Read more »

1) Africa in Motion Soleil O Africa in Motion returns for its 12th edition to shine a much-needed spotlight on the films coming out of Africa, with cinema ... Read more »

Call Me By Your Name is a beautiful love story about two men falling for each other over one perfect summer in rural Italy. It’s among the finest films... Read more »

The meaning of works of art change with time. An artist's message can be repurposed and repackaged decades later by new generations who find something fresh ... Read more »

“The grossest film ever made” screamed the hysterical headlines from Sundance when Steve Ellison – best known to the world as electronic mu... Read more »

Walk into Manchester’s HOME this month and you can’t miss Paul Auster; the cult author is all over the venue. An ambitious and visually inventive... Read more »

Scarlett Johansson kicks arse in this exhilarating opening scene from the upcoming live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell The opening scene from the m... Read more »

Last weekend, in a ramshackle old snooker hall above a Cantonese restaurant in the centre of the world’s smallest Chinatown, the curtain came down on o... Read more »

In Christopher Smith’s sun-baked spin on Strangers on a Train, law student Harper (Sheridan) shares a beer with a charismatic hardman (Cohen) in a seed... Read more »

It’s 60s London. How can we tell? Because director Robert Mullan throws every conceivable period film cliche – psych-rock soundtrack, nicotine ha... Read more »

Richard E Grant is looking angelic. The 60-year-old Swazi-English actor is sitting framed inside a huge arched window of an empty dining room in Edinburgh&rs... Read more »

Stanley Tucci loves his job. But then, of course, if you’ve seen any of his films, you don’t need to be told that; his joy radiates off the scree... Read more »

Peter Mullan’s films feel big. They’re filled with grand gestures and bold symbolism. Take his 1997 directorial debut, Orphans, easily one of the... Read more »

Micky Ward (Wahlberg) is a plucky welterweight who’s been given a rough deal in life – his family. His manager/mother Alice (Leo) and his trainer... Read more »

When did that happen? One day you’re having your head flushed down the toilet for wearing a set of home-made adamantium claws fashioned from six of you... Read more »

David Mackenzie, the award winning director of Hallam Foe and Young Adam, cuts a rather unassuming figure. Meeting him for the first time you might guess he&... Read more »

Inadvertently inventing torture-porn can’t be the proudest moment in the careers of James Wan and Leigh Whannell, respectively the director and writer ... Read more »

Glasgow’s Southside – as well as being home to two of the city’s cultural jewels, Tramway and The Burrell Collection – has a strong f... Read more »

Uni is a time for self-discovery, a place to ‘find yourself’. You’ll sample enough sensory pleasures over the next few years of studentdom ... Read more »

Director Chris Weitz has one of the strangest CVs in Hollywood. Name a genre and likely he’ll have dipped in his filmmaking toe. Teen comedy? See his p... Read more »