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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 »

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 »