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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

The Edinburgh International Film Festival presents a good selection of Asian titles scattered across its vast programme. We browsed through the festival cata... Read more »

1. Glasgow Short Film Festival Our favourite film festival is back with a programme that’s equal parts playful and probing. The 12th edition of GSFF... Read more »

With Nick Broomfield’s documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, an in-depth look at the relationship between Leonard Cohen and muse Marianne ... Read more »

Nothing good ever came from taking a walk in the woods – not in the history of the movies at least. From the campers of Friday the 13th to the film stu... Read more »

Kelburn Garden Party kicks off tomorrow, with headline performances from Goldie, Krafty Kuts and Ibibio Sound Machine (pictured) taking place across the week... Read more »

At awards ceremonies, filmmakers’ acceptance speeches will often include a loving thank you to their parents. Should the electric dramedy Between the T... Read more »

Old Boys Dir. Toby MacDonald Alex Lawther is a comic dynamo. He’s been a deadpan psychopath in The End of the F***ing World and stole every sc... Read more »

While watching Flux Gourmet, the latest film from Peter Strickland, British cinema's premier chronicler of kink, fetish and general weirdness, I’ve a f... Read more »

As we enter the darkest, coldest months of the year, we can look forward to a bit of light at the end of the tunnel with Glasgow Film Festival 2025 (26 Feb-9... Read more »

Opening last night with the international premiere of Marc Turtletaub's latest film Puzzle (pictured), Edinburgh International Film Festival continues until ... Read more »

The shocking and seemingly sudden collapse of an institution as established as the Centre for the Moving Image, and cherished cinema spaces and platforms lik... Read more »

On 14 August 1980, former New Yorker critic Renata Adler savaged the career and work of Pauline Kael in an admittedly eloquent but brutal takedown. Adler was... Read more »

Choosing what to see at Edinburgh International Film Festival is harder than ever this year. Around half the feature films in the programme are world premier... Read more »

It’s not every day that a filmmaker invites you to “see my two Willies”, but that’s the proposition I received from Mark Cousins ahea... Read more »