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Arriving on UK shores 18 months after its Sundance debut, US comedy Dear White People is all too relevant in light of the increasingly publicised troubles of... Read more »

Jafar Panahi’s semi-documentary This Is Not a Film visualised and articulated his plight after a draconian sentence from the Iranian government (regard... Read more »

In a perfect marriage of artists, Love & Friendship sees Jane Austen's early novella Lady Susan adapted by writer-director Whit Stillman. The result is h... Read more »

Despite a lot of its meta gags falling flat, giddy lead Ryan Reynolds makes Deadpool's immature fuckery work Sometimes the right actor can single-handedly s... Read more »

It's Captain America v Iron-Man in this Marvel clash of The Avengers. The good news is that Captain America: Civil War has great action set-pieces and a deli... Read more »

From the directing duo behind the unforgettable music video for Turn Down for What comes Swiss Army Man, the most philosophically profound movie featuri... Read more »

There's one reason to watch Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. And her name is Cobie Smulders Excluding the five film-strong Mission: Impossible franchise that ha... Read more »

The closing credits of documentary All This Panic commence with “A Film by Jenny Gage and Thomas Betterton,” an unusual credit in that Betterton ... Read more »

“I’m not aspiring to explain the psychology of the character to the audience,” says Eliza Hittman of her style as writer-director. “T... Read more »

More than most genres, the road movie would seem to offer an easy route (sorry) for budding screenwriters. Though the individual style of a given film will d... Read more »

Teen Eliza (Maria-Victoria Dragus) has been raised by her physician father Romeo (Adrian Titieni) with the idea she will one day leave their Transylvanian to... Read more »

Ben Wheatley's Free Fire assembles big names for smaller scale action, with a film devoted to an extended shootout between all kinds of shady people. Alongsi... Read more »

There’s a funny bit of potentially intentional meta-commentary fairly early on in Fast & Furious 8 (titled The Fate of the Furious stateside).... Read more »

Iron Man 3 features a Christmas setting, a struggling protagonist caught in strange team-ups, two heroes sneaking into a dock for an action set piece, b... Read more »

Mania Akbari’s film is dedicated to “all those filmmakers in Iran, who have served a prison sentence and the ones who are still in prison.”... Read more »

Jeff Nichols’ strong follow-up to 2011’s Take Shelter is another examination of male conflict; this time in the form of a coming-of-age adventure... Read more »

Fast & Furious 5 (aka Fast Five) abandoned virtually any semblance of its series’ street racing routes, retooling the blockbuster franchise into an... Read more »

A selection of great British fears – narrow country roads at night, passive-aggression from strangers, and the spilling of a man’s pint – f... Read more »

The Scotland Loves Anime festival returns to Glasgow and Edinburgh in October for a fourth year of screenings and talks, and that rare opportunity to watch J... Read more »

Actors and directors from a certain subset of American independent cinema star in this knowing slasher film. The first of You're Next’s two genre twist... Read more »

Based on James Thurber’s short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty stars its director Ben Stiller as an inexpressive, daydreaming underachiever who,... Read more »

Exasperation drives the actions of the key players in Ilo Ilo, a film that is both a vivid portrait of recession-struck Singapore in 1997 and a subdued,... Read more »

From recent efforts like The Illusionist and Up to 1986’s When the Wind Blows, animation as a medium has served elderly protagonists particularly well;... Read more »

As homogeneous as Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe is, the attempts to play up different tones and genres with its recent lot of films have brought w... Read more »

Patricia Highsmith adaptation The Two Faces of January is very much in the narrative mould of the author’s familiar brand of Mediterranean noir. Athens... Read more »

From set-pieces with airborne dragons and gunships to having a literal flying pig as a protagonist, soaring into the sky has always been a recurring interest... Read more »

Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla revival is a beautifully directed, perfectly paced blockbuster that effortlessly veers between enormity and quieter, almost tr... Read more »

Adapted from a French comic, directed by South Korean maverick Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), and featuring a stacked roster of American, Europ... Read more »

Early on in this Grace Kelly biopic, Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) visits Princess Grace (played by Nicole Kidman) to convince her to return to a... Read more »

A merging of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland might be read as a possible influence on I Believe in Unicorns, but this ver... Read more »