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Rock legends Spinal Tap once philosophised that there’s a fine line between stupid and clever, and Luc Besson’s loony Lucy may be the filmic epit... Read more »

With any hopes of Disney making a 2D feature animation again looking increasingly unlikely, and even SpongeBob SquarePants venturing into CGI territory for a... Read more »

A Swedish family are on a ski holiday in the French Alps. Everything seems to be going great for Tomas (Kuhnke), Ebba (Kongsli) and their two kids. That is, ... Read more »

The sophomore feature from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Spring is a body horror tale for the hopeless romantic.Stuck in a personal tailspin af... Read more »

Set in gorgeously-designed futuristic city San Fransokyo, the world of Disney superhero animation Big Hero 6 is one big mishmash of Asian and American cultur... Read more »

The career-portrait documentary is a tricky beast to pull off. A director will be inclined to do the artist’s body of work complete justice while also ... Read more »

In a cinematic landscape where every movie series of notable mainstream or cult popularity is being resurrected instead of left for dead, one figure has emer... Read more »

Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »

Based on premise alone, Welcome to Me could have gone horribly wrong all too easily, but director Shira Piven’s barbed satire successfully walks a fine... Read more »

Rising superstar Noni (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is feeling the pressures of fame and finds herself on the literal edge, almost perishing in a suicide j... Read more »

Jon Watts’ lean Cop Car has a simple title and a simple premise. Needless complications aren’t piled onto proceedings and the film’s all th... Read more »

Greater than The Great Escape, American prisoner of war tale Stalag 17 is a darkly comic theatre adaptation from director Billy Wilder. Simultaneously fiery ... Read more »

Scott Graham follows up 2012's Shell with Iona, another wind-swept rural tale of familial malcontent, this time set on the elemental Hebridean island of the ... Read more »

Searing character study from Borderline Films, the team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene and Simon Killer A troubled, white 20something New Yorker, also an a... Read more »

Jeremy Saulnier follows up revenge thriller Blue Ruin with Green Room, a nail-biting punks v nazis siege movie. He muses on punk rock, genre labels and casti... Read more »

Jacques Deray's La Piscine, from 1969 – a drama of sexual jealousy and possessiveness – featured big, sexy stars (Alain Delon, Romy Schneide... Read more »

Moonlight is a film that consistently upends expectations. With coming-of-age dramas, which is the easiest subgenre to slot Jenkins' film into, too many... Read more »

Great New Hollywood filmmaker Brian De Palma holds court on his rollercoaster career, which includes films like Carrie, Scarface and Body Double The prospec... Read more »

Though The 400 Blows and Jules et Jim have since come to define the work of François Truffaut for the casual cinema enthusiast, there was a time when ... Read more »

“In retrospect, I understand what a motherfucker of a thing it is to get made.” We’re speaking to Adelaide-born, Reykjavik-based Bened... Read more »

With the same you-are-there handheld aesthetic that characterised her Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker, the opening of Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit&nb... Read more »

Not all screen vampires wear capes and sleep in coffins. Ahead of GFF's screening of inventive teen vampire tale The Transfiguration, we take a look at five ... Read more »

In such troubled times as our current moment, where Western society seems doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past by stalling or demolishing progress in va... Read more »

“I think the writing and directing is more natural for me; it’s a more comfortable place.” The Skinny is talking to Michael Showalter, the ... Read more »

The Skinny is chatting to Marianna Palka, the Scottish writer, director and actor, who's fresh off the close of the Sundance London film festival where her l... Read more »

The phrase “quietly devastating” can be a tad overused in the realm of film criticism, but it’s all too appropriate when a modestly scaled ... Read more »

From his ‘Cornetto Trilogy’ (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End) to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, some of the best recurring eleme... Read more »

Compliance opens with the words ‘Inspired by True Events’ in giant lettering and later reveals that incidents similar to those it depicts have oc... Read more »

Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s non-narrative, anthropological collaboration – both a documentary and an abstract horror film – depicts the m... Read more »

World War Z is based on Max Brooks’ bestselling novel of the same name, a globe-trotting, multi-perspective document of a zombie apocalypse, rife with ... Read more »