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When it comes to image, Russell Brand is the stand-up equivalent of Bowie or Madonna. He’s always reinventing himself, from greasy haired Essex lad to ... Read more »

Son of Saul Art-house cinema is as susceptible to cliche as its mainstream cousin. And no cinematic trope is more shopworn than the follow-shot. You know t... Read more »

Document HRFF is Scotland’s only dedicated international human rights festival. If you haven’t guessed from its title, documentaries are its bag.... Read more »

When it comes to Sundance Film Festival, there’s a lot cinema fans should be thankful for. Taking place every January since 1984 in the small mountain ... Read more »

Rocky Balboa is one of the 20th century’s most enduring mythical characters. Over six films, this hangdog bruiser from Philly has taken on many gu... Read more »

Sandwich between the Coens’ Hail, Caesar! and Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa is 12 days of cinematic delights. Here are fifthteen films not to miss.... Read more »

Masters of Light, RIP For film fans, the deaths of Haskell Wexler and Vilmos Zsigmond, two of cinema’s greatest cinematographers, within days of ... Read more »

Veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski returns to his native Poland for 11 Minutes, a fragmented thriller concerned with chance and cosmic timing. We find the 77... Read more »

Theatre For the first time, theatre makes up a chunk of the ¡Viva! programme. The festival kicks off with Derailed (7-9 Apr), from award-winning ... Read more »

Do you always support the underdog? If so, you’re sure to warm to 19-year-old Corrie Green, the ultimate dark horse in video games design. Let’s... Read more »

Prolific filmmaker, critic and all-round cinema hero Mark Cousins discusses the flâneur tradition, feminism and falling back in love with his hometown ... Read more »

Jordan Peele's blistering Get Out is a scary, funny and razor sharp social thriller, and the most exciting debut film this year “Run rabbit – ru... Read more »

The Talking Heads frontman remembers his friend Jonathan Demme, the great filmmaker who directed the near perfect Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sens... Read more »

Movie actors are a funny old lot. Essentially they’re big kids who’ve been paid handsomely to raid the dressing up box, but to hear them talk you... Read more »

Sweet Virginia opens with three men playing poker in a bar so poorly lit that they’re practically silhouettes. One mentions a forest fire that’s ... Read more »

Cast your eyes across the programme of any forward thinking film festival and you’ll find a strand devoted to virtual reality. Even at a dinosaur like ... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off this week, and it’s doing so in fine style with Francis Lee’s deeply affecting love story God&rsq... Read more »

For over two decades, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has steadily been making some of the most humane films in modern cinema, and with Hayao Miyazaki no... Read more »

For the past three decades, the great Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki has been making some of the most original comedies in world cinema. This downbeat ... Read more »

When an actor turns director, their choice of first film can be telling. More often than not, if the actor chooses to also act in the film, the debut can bec... Read more »

Scotland does not want for specialist film festivals during the autumn months, but a new one is entering the mix this September offering something unique. Kr... Read more »

The mismatched buddy movie hasn’t evolved much since Walter Hill created its modern archetype with 48 Hrs, his 1982 thriller where racial electricity c... Read more »

The cinema world has many reasons to celebrate the films of Jean-Pierre Melville, but the fact that this year marks the centenary of his birth is as good as ... Read more »

When the great American filmmaker Jonathan Demme died back in April at the age of 73, everyone who ever worked with him was in agreement: he was a good guy. ... Read more »

1) Jonathan Demme: CineMaster The funky and compassionate cinema of the late, great Jonathan Demme is celebrated at Glasgow Film Theatre this month with a... Read more »

It’s one year on from the events of Stranger Things, but all is not well in the sleepy town of Hawkins, Indiana. Middle-school kid Will Byers is still ... Read more »

Critics at Cannes have their claws out for Xavier Dolan's latest melodrama It's Only the End of the World. It's currently the worst reviewed films at the fes... Read more »

As ever, opening the new fresh-from-the-printers EIFF programme offers up a world of cinematic delights. Choosing what to see, however, can be a bit of a luc... Read more »

Brady Corbet has come a long way from 2004's Thunderbirds reboot. Since that inauspicious start he's chosen his acting roles wisely and with The Childhood of... Read more »

Three years ago, The Skinny ran a cover story celebrating “a new dawn” of Scottish cinema. Looking back with 20-20 hindsight, perhaps that was to... Read more »