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Day 2 of FrightFest saw those cheery little gore scamps return to Leicester Square on Saturday morning with an extra skip in their step after a strong finish... Read more »

Jim Mickle updates Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 cannibal family drama in solid style, building on the promise of his low-key vampire saga Stake Land from t... Read more »

There’s something terribly banal about Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée’s old-fashioned redemption piece about a crooked Texan bigot f... Read more »

Israeli writer-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado followup their 2010 debut Rabies with another tar-black comic horror. While investigating a seri... Read more »

The second part of Suzanne Collins’ satire of our celebrity-obsessed, consumerist times hellbent on taking money from celebrity-obsessed, consumerist t... Read more »

“Women: can't live with ‘em, can't eat ‘em” would make an apt, if crass, tagline for this formally brilliant pseudo-horror of male an... Read more »

It’s not difficult to see what attracted perennial rabble-rousers Ken Loach and Paul Laverty to the tale of rabble-rousing, Church-baiting ac... Read more »

Almost everyone who saw Nathan Silver’s first film and EIFF debut in 2012, Exit Elena, was hugely impressed by a new, smart and humane voice in US... Read more »

The difficulty with dramatising true-life events – particularly incendiary ones from the recent past – is knowing just how much fiction to infuse... Read more »

A new picture from the Dardenne brothers is always something to treasure; the Belgian filmmakers sprinkle tiny morsels of humanist truth and insight ove... Read more »

Yet another doolally 80s horror pastiche, WolfCop remembers the rule that some of its predecessors (notably Hobo with a Shotgun) forgot: never let the nastin... Read more »

It’s rare in cinema to have an experience that's equally physically exhausting and intellectually nourishing; to walk away drained, dumbstruck, by the ... Read more »

A sort of biopic of renowned martial artist Ip Man, Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster finally arrives after a European debut at the Berlin Film Festival w... Read more »

In Ex Machina, Caleb (Gleeson) is an impressionable computer programmer sequestered to his mega rich genius boss Nathan’s (Isaac) remote Alaskan palace... Read more »

Set in New York in 1981 (the city’s most violent year on record), writer-director J.C. Chandor’s third film focuses on aspirational heating ... Read more »

There’s an overriding air of the macabre to the festival’s final weekend this year, with Jonathan Glazer’s nightmarish vision of Glasgow, U... Read more »

1. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)Few films this year can match The Tree of Life's sense of soaring ambition, and fewer still can match the breathtaking artis... Read more »

The (Rare) Female Protagonist The Brave: Pixar’s latest, set in an olden-days Scotch-land where the men are big and drunk and the wummin ken their pla... Read more »

Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer) — 22 Feb Based on the incredibly complex novel by David Mitchell (not that one), Cloud Atlas consists of ... Read more »

1. The Raid (Gareth Evans) Vice-like expectation is nuanced only by punishing adrenalin in Gareth Evans’s Indonesian actioner The Raid. Rookie cop Ram... Read more »

1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) Under the Skin is a film that shows you things you’ve never seen before. Jonathan Glazer’s extraordin... Read more »

1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) The standout line of 2013 comes in the extended third act of its standout film, Richard Linklater’s second unex... Read more »

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a miracle; similar to “the green place” MacGuffin that Charlize Theron’... Read more »

From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »

Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »