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The most intense friendships can feel like a romance: the euphoric highs, the crushing lows, the laughs, the tears. There are also the boring bits, the munda... Read more »

There are many roadmaps into EIFF's programme. Some people are drawn to the mint-fresh movies that haven’t screened anywhere else in the world. There a... Read more »

Rodrigo Guerro’s Venezia is a sob-stifling study of grief and a twisted love story of sorrow and isolation, played out against the backdrop of a city f... Read more »

As images of the grey and desolate housing schemes of Motherwell slip across the screen, 18-year-old Gemma wistfully remarks in her metallic, West Coast twan... Read more »

A suspicious looking middle-aged man sits alone in his van and quietly observes a lonely woman. A few days later, she invites him into her house and the two ... Read more »

A forest at night. The camera moves through trees and foliage, picking details from the gloom. Suddenly a lone figure enters the frame, stalking and clutchin... Read more »

A wonderfully emotional film, low-key Spanish sci-fi Not the End tells the story of a couple – Javier the regretful time traveller (played by Javi... Read more »

Usually a film will attempt to disguise its influences, but with its Twilight Zone opening and framing scenes with a crackly 1950s television set, sci-fi mys... Read more »

“In life there is honey and there [are] onions; it’s not all honey”, we are wisely told in Sarah Kaskas’ feature documentary debut Un... Read more »

Balance, Not Symmetry is unbearable. Directed and co-written by Jamie Adams, this aimless and inconclusive drama about a young woman processing a deep loss r... Read more »

Cinema does not want for films featuring youth in revolt, but rarely has the clash between the young and old been so energetically staged as in Ninian Doff&r... Read more »

Allison Gardner – CEO, Glasgow Film; Director, Glasgow Film Festival Cinema adjacent highlight of 2024?I'd have to say Viggo Mortensen attending the f... Read more »

Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s pop culture phenomenon, Memory: The Origins of Alien looks at the genesis of the iconic mons... Read more »

Cinema is back, baby! Just don’t stand so close and please wear a mask! As Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-25 Aug) becomes the first large i... Read more »

Scottish cinemas get a bit racy this month as a wonderful selection of pre-Code films head to Filmhouse and GFT. For those uninitiated in this debauched peri... Read more »

Last night, the curtain came down on the 2025 Edinburgh International Film Festival with Paul Sng’s Irvine Welsh documentary Reality Is Not Enough ... Read more »

We love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative. It’s always fascinating to hear what movies have resonated with people, and the Edinburgh cinema&rsqu... Read more »

The Great Western, Glasgow’s daylong festival dedicated to some of the most exciting names in contemporary music, returns this weekend with one of thei... Read more »

Great cinemas are more than just buildings in which we watch movies. They’re meeting places, where we go on dates or to catch up with friends; they&rsq... Read more »

There’s been a hole at the heart of Edinburgh’s film community since 6 October 2022. That was the day Filmhouse, the city’s beloved arthous... Read more »

In more ways than one, the traditional and the contemporary rub up against one another in Mark Jenkin’s strange and hypnotic Bait. The setting is a fis... Read more »

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a primary source for history, a portrait of resistance amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine. It is a dire... Read more »

If you haven’t noticed, we’re all obsessed with the 1980s. In all likelihood, the last piece of contemporary pop culture you consumed referenced ... Read more »

Over the course of his last four features – Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy, In Fabric and now 2022’s Flux Gourmet –... Read more »

On 4 July, after 14 years and five prime ministers, each more hopeless than the last, we will hopefully be saying goodbye to our cruel, corrupt and inept Tor... Read more »

The 77th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival kicked off last night with the UK premiere of The Outrun. Last night also saw EIFF launch its new M... Read more »

The third entry in George Romero's original Dead Trilogy, 1985's Day of the Dead, is just as rich in satire and subtext as its much-celebrated predecessors, ... Read more »

You’ve had a couple of weeks to pore over the Glasgow Film Festival cinema lineup, but today they announce more treats: the Industry Focus and the tant... Read more »

The opening scene of Robert the Bruce suggests we’re going to be in for a cheese-fest. It’s 1306, and two noblemen with legitimate claims to the ... Read more »

Horror and humour have long been eager movie bedfellows. Scares and laughs co-exist in films as different as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), An... Read more »