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Epic feels like a deliberate throwback to children’s adventure films of the 80s and 90s. And not necessarily the good ones – it’s plagued b... Read more »

The Proclaimers’ back catalogue makes a fine backbone for this largely fun, nicely sincere and well-staged musical. Director Dexter Fletcher deftly han... Read more »

Before Kes, Czech master František Vláčil's 1960 feature debut The White Dove told of another young boy caring for a prized bird, her... Read more »

Actress Lake Bell makes her feature writing and directing debut with this funny ensemble piece set within and around the world of voice-over artists. Carol S... Read more »

In this documentary-fiction hybrid, a guard (Sommer) at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum strikes up a friendship with a lonely Canadian tourist (O&rsq... Read more »

On the surface, Mistaken for Strangers would seem to be a standard tour rockumentary, in this case following Ohio indie outfit The National during the mainst... Read more »

At the Berlinale press conference for The Grand Budapest Hotel’s world premiere in early February, Wes Anderson named several films that served as majo... Read more »

If Leos Carax's 2012 film Holy Motors was a demented lament for 'the death of cinema', his 1986 sophomore feature The Night Is Young (known as Mauvais s... Read more »

Abel Ferrara’s blunt-force Welcome to New York is a thinly-veiled fictionalisation of the sexual assault incident that disgraced former IMF chief Domin... Read more »

Love, betrayal and escape in rural Texas drive the pulpy small-town noir We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the promising feature debut of director brothers Sim... Read more »

Boomerang!, from 1947, is an early example of 'docu-noir' – a sub-genre in which facts from a real-life incident are used as framework for exploring fi... Read more »

The last few years have seen some of modern animation’s most acclaimed directors make forays into live action. Notably Brad Bird and Andrew Stanto... Read more »

Jimi: All Is by My Side takes an approach that more musician biopics should, that of honing in on one specific period of Jimi Hendrix's life instead of provi... Read more »

From Harvard’s experimental Sensory Ethnography Lab, which gave us 2012’s haunting fishing vessel doc Leviathan, comes Manakamana. This is an&nbs... Read more »

In the vein of classics Tokyo Story and Make Way for Tomorrow, Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange focuses on an older couple who are separated by cir... Read more »

With Foxcatcher, director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) explores the odd, tense relationship between brothers and Olympic champion wrestlers Mark and Da... Read more »

There’s an unwritten rule that has been present throughout filmmaking history: when making a movie in which an insane Ryan Reynolds talks to a sour Sco... Read more »

Cyber terrorism thriller Blackhat sees director Michael Mann continuing to explore themes found in his earlier works like Heat and Thief, but with a firm foo... Read more »

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, James Spader voices the eponymous villain, an entity of artificial intelligence that can inhabit seemingly any mechanical host ar... Read more »

After decades of zombies being used for satirical commentary, a new wave of films seems concerned with heavy exploration of the emotional undercurrent of lov... Read more »

Three years before Boyz n the Hood portrayed social problems in inner-city Los Angeles, Dennis Hopper’s Colors took a look at actual East LA gangs and ... Read more »

Now in its sixth year, October’s Scotland Loves Anime festival is not just the region’s leading exhibitor of Japanese animation on the big screen... Read more »

Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk, based on the events surrounding Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Centre towers, open... Read more »

The Witch has the onscreen subtitle A New England Folktale, and its end credits posit that it’s inspired by folklore, fairytales and journals... Read more »

Ben Wheatley delivers a ferocious adaptation of JG Ballard’s classic dystopian novel High-Rise It’s the near future, though it (deliberately) se... Read more »

Of the numerous problems with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, one of them is quite succinctly illustrated by one scene in the film’s back half... Read more »

For the best part of a decade now, Hollywood marketers has shown a penchant for promoting the 'visionary' – you'll be familiar with trailers ... Read more »

In charting the life of archaeologist and explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared while searching for a fabled place in 1925, James Gray’s classical ep... Read more »

Suntan, the new film from director Argyris Papadimitropoulos, is firmly in the same mode of disturbing content and discomfort as other works from the so-call... Read more »

Set in a real tourist village in Norway that actually is under constant threat from potential mountain erosion into the surrounding fjord, The Wave can be se... Read more »