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The Fifth Season is one of those films that borrows from everyone – there are shades of Bergman, Tarkovsky, von Trier, and a generous sprinkling of The... Read more »

I Give It a Year writer/director Dan Mazer has described his raunchy feature debut as an ‘anti-rom-com'; a subversion of those well-worn boy-... Read more »

It's the last day of school and a horde of chattering adolescents squeeze on to a Bronx-bound bus. The backseat is the elongated throne belonging to four bul... Read more »

Simon, played with considerable nuance by Brady Corbet, is an American neuroscience graduate visiting Paris after being dumped by his girlfriend. His ex... Read more »

Sofia Coppola, the brilliant director of The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Somewhere, has thus far shown a knack for making slightly-stoned movies... Read more »

Canadian actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley’s new feature, The Stories We Tell, is as slippery as an eel. It claims to be a documentary, but then so did ... Read more »

I Want Your Love (15 Aug) is the agent provocateur in Liverpool Pride’s programme of LGBT cinema, but reputations can be deceiving. You might... Read more »

Battleship Potemkin What you need to know: If you’re under the impression that Sylvester Stallone invented the montage with Rocky, then think again. T... Read more »

A near shot-for-shot remake of his cult Israeli coming-of-ager, Boaz Davidson’s The Last American Virgin is less a movie, more a succession of skits se... Read more »

When Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) comes into your life, everything changes. Don’t believe us? Then see for yourself at Cornerhouse’s autumn exhibit... Read more »

Sisters is a new strand in Take One Action Film Festival, and according to its programme it aims to “cast a positive and critical lens on the vital rol... Read more »

Looking to make a New Year’s resolution? Here’s one we’d heartily recommend. Instead of joining a gym, cutting your alcohol intake back to ... Read more »

If anyone thought the sight of James Franco serenading a pair of machine gun-wielding Disney princesses with a Britney Spears ballad while dressed as a ganst... Read more »

For four decades Glasgow Film Theatre has been at the heart of Glasgow film culture. While other much-loved picture houses like The ABC (now the O2 ABC) and ... Read more »

Starred Up, the new film from David Mackenzie, is about Eric Love, a scrappy young juvenile offender promoted (or ‘starred up’) to the bruising b... Read more »

1. It’s Billy Wilder’s Best Given that he made such a wealth of fine films throughout his career, this may prove controversial. Some people pref... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and it looks like it could be a corker. Its much-loved B-movie sidebar, Night Moves, has been given ... Read more »

Chef centres on Casper, a cook, once the darling of the LA food scene, who's stuck in a rut churning out uninspired nosh for his philistine restaurateur paym... Read more »

Nashville, Robert Altman’s 1975 masterpiece set over five days at a country and western festival, is full of contradictions. It’s an epic, runnin... Read more »

Ever wondered why Renaissance dreamboat James Franco was taking all those Ivy League writing courses? Turns out he was penning short story collection Palo Al... Read more »

In 2000, 19-year-old British-Asian Zahid Mubarek was murdered by Robert Stewart, his cellmate at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution. He was five hours away... Read more »

Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular. The first follows a man (Tsai’s go-to leading man... Read more »

We meet Lisa stretched out on a warm rock as she stares across “England’s highest beach”. She’s not by the seaside, however. This is ... Read more »

Carlos Cruz-Diez is holding court on his favourite subject: colour. “If you ask someone from France, What’s your favourite colour? They’re ... Read more »

If you were ever on the fence as to whether the Shredded Wheat-haired billionaire Donald Trump was a good guy or not, Anthony Baxter’s brilliant muckra... Read more »

“Think of it as if a Disney movie were set in an X-rated environment.” San Francisco-based filmmaker and performer Joshua Grannell is describing ... Read more »

Trace the modern summer comedy back to its epicentre and you’ll find Ghostbusters. Without this amalgam of National Lampoon sark and Hollywood spectacl... Read more »

French cinema lost one of its greats this year. Aged 91, Alain Resnais shipped off to that great cinema auditorium in the sky leaving behind some of the most... Read more »

Take a moving image, add a score; hey presto, you have cinema. Video Jam brings an additional element: a live music performance. Initiated in late 2011 by a ... Read more »

If you made it to a cinema at the weekend it’s possible that you were treated to two of the year’s finest films: The Tribe and Mad Max: Fury Road... Read more »