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1. It’s Billy Wilder’s Best Given that he made such a wealth of fine films throughout his career, this may prove controversial. Some people pref... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and it looks like it could be a corker. Its much-loved B-movie sidebar, Night Moves, has been given ... Read more »

Chef centres on Casper, a cook, once the darling of the LA food scene, who's stuck in a rut churning out uninspired nosh for his philistine restaurateur paym... Read more »

Nashville, Robert Altman’s 1975 masterpiece set over five days at a country and western festival, is full of contradictions. It’s an epic, runnin... Read more »

Ever wondered why Renaissance dreamboat James Franco was taking all those Ivy League writing courses? Turns out he was penning short story collection Palo Al... Read more »

In 2000, 19-year-old British-Asian Zahid Mubarek was murdered by Robert Stewart, his cellmate at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution. He was five hours away... Read more »

Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular. The first follows a man (Tsai’s go-to leading man... Read more »

We meet Lisa stretched out on a warm rock as she stares across “England’s highest beach”. She’s not by the seaside, however. This is ... Read more »

Carlos Cruz-Diez is holding court on his favourite subject: colour. “If you ask someone from France, What’s your favourite colour? They’re ... Read more »

If you were ever on the fence as to whether the Shredded Wheat-haired billionaire Donald Trump was a good guy or not, Anthony Baxter’s brilliant muckra... Read more »

“Think of it as if a Disney movie were set in an X-rated environment.” San Francisco-based filmmaker and performer Joshua Grannell is describing ... Read more »

Trace the modern summer comedy back to its epicentre and you’ll find Ghostbusters. Without this amalgam of National Lampoon sark and Hollywood spectacl... Read more »

French cinema lost one of its greats this year. Aged 91, Alain Resnais shipped off to that great cinema auditorium in the sky leaving behind some of the most... Read more »

Take a moving image, add a score; hey presto, you have cinema. Video Jam brings an additional element: a live music performance. Initiated in late 2011 by a ... Read more »

If you made it to a cinema at the weekend it’s possible that you were treated to two of the year’s finest films: The Tribe and Mad Max: Fury Road... Read more »

There’s a steely confidence to John Maclean’s debut feature, a lyrical fairytale in which a doe-eyed Scottish teen (Smit-McPhee) treks west in se... Read more »

There’s a ghost in the attic in Andrew Haigh’s haunting relationship drama 45 Years, but not the kind that can be vanquished with a séance... Read more »

Despite tireless work by kickarse film distributors like Peccadillo Pictures, access to films centred on the lives and concerns of LGBTQ characters is scarce... Read more »

Halloween John Carpenter may no longer be the filmmaking force he once was, but as long as film-fans continue to crave horror thrills around Halloween, hi... Read more »

German Cinema German cinema is celebrated this month in new season Fokus, a joint venture from Glasgow’s Goethe-Institut and Edinburgh’s Filmh... Read more »

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 »