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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 »

You are currently trapped in the biggest arts festival on the planet. Over the next three weeks you’ll see weird and wonderful events, encompassing th... Read more »

There’s no such thing as bad publicity, so they say. Tell that to James Mullighan. Since his appointment as director of Edinburgh International F... Read more »

If you’ve never had the pleasure of experiencing a Gregg Araki movie, then his latest, Kaboom, is an excellent place to start. It’s like a greate... Read more »

You’d be foolish to think that an actor’s real life demeanour matched any of his/her film roles, but in the case of some performers their onscree... Read more »

Mark Kermode likes to talk. A lot. At length. The good doctor’s answer to the first question posed by Hannah McGill, tonight’s host, takes up abo... Read more »

“No one’s going to come and see it because it’s about gay sex. The gays will only come because they want a glimpse of cock, and they’... Read more »

FILM OF THE FESTIVAL The Kid with a Bike: The Dardenne brothers' most accessible film to date is also one of their best. Runner-up: This Is Not a Film DOC O... Read more »

Let me tell you a story about a man with the initials JC. True of heart, he came from the heavens and used his superhuman powers to unite a humble people, gi... Read more »

On 25 January, 2006, the remains of Joyce Vincent, a 38-year-old former secretary, were found slumped on the couch of her London flat, the telly still blarin... Read more »

It’s never a good sign when your interviewee keeps their outdoor clothes on during the interview, especially when it takes place in a cosy bar, but I w... Read more »

My favourite way to consume cinema is to gorge. When I get the taste for a certain filmmaker, to not devour his/her entire oeuvre is like not finishing a tub... Read more »

Like a delightful sci-fi mutation, the Edinburgh International Film Festival has some tantalising additional film events protruding from its excellent main p... Read more »

This week UK cinephiles will be looking south across the channel as the world’s most ostentatious celebration of cinema kicks off on the French Riviera... Read more »

Girimunho opens out of the gloom and into light. Our indefatigable octogenarian protagonist, Bastú, goes on a similar journey. The film begins with B... Read more »

Last month, while thumbing through the GFT’s July/August programme, I let out a small squeal of delight. This was nothing unusual, there’s always... Read more »

PARTYING Don't: National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis, 1978) I’ve never seen the appeal of Animal House. Don’t get me wrong, these boys ... Read more »

Anyone who’s recently ventured to a short film festival worth its salt will know that some of the most daring cinema being made in the UK right no... Read more »

If, in a few years time, you find Guy Maddin’s Keyhole on late night TV while channel hopping you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d stumbled... Read more »

Five inexpensive digital cameras lay strewn on a table, their lenses smashed, their casings cracked, their circuits shorted. These battered bits of tech have... Read more »

The Master opens at the close of WWII with sailor Freddie Quell (Phoenix), our perpetually horny hero, caressing a crumbling female sand sculpture. The rest ... Read more »

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s mesmerising and mysterious debut centres on a modern apartment complex in Recife, Brazil, and concerns several residents... Read more »

So does Steven Soderbergh’s filmmaking career end with a bang or a whimper? Unfortunately it’s closer to the latter. Out of the genre tombola fro... Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival and Whatever Gets You Through the Night, the hugely ambitious multi-arts endeavor created by award-winning director Cora Bissett in col... Read more »

Just a bit late for Easter, Manchester's Cornerhouse offers up The Gospel According to St. Matthew (7 & 10 Apr), the finest cinematic rendering... Read more »

There are many qualities that can help make a great filmmaker. Some are practical: a meticulous attention to detail, the stamina of an ox, being good at pers... Read more »