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One of the most anticipated events at this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the imminent arrival of Russian activists, artists and performers Pussy Ri... Read more »

Mighty Boosh alumnus Paul King worked wonders with his 2014 live-action adaptation of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond’s tale of a marmalade-loving and ev... Read more »

Practically every great filmmaker of the New Hollywood – that moment in the 1970s when directors’ power was equal to their ambitions – has ... Read more »

It’s difficult to articulate the conflicting emotions one feels while watching The Room, the staggeringly terrible magnum opus by Tommy Wiseau. Ma... Read more »

Following esteemed crime author Ian Rankin and genre-defying Mercury Prize-winners Young Fathers, playwright Jo Clifford is set to be Filmhouse’s ... Read more »

The schedule for FrightFest, the most terrifying weekend on the Scottish calendar outside of Old Firm games, has been announced this morning. The horror even... Read more »

Pop-culture ironist Rachel Maclean is one of the most exciting voices in artist moving image, and her newly announced film Make Me Up – descr... Read more »

As we reported earlier in the week, Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement got the internet in a frenzy by suggesting he and Bret McKenzie would be reu... Read more »

If you'd've told us a year ago that the story of a mute woman’s love affair with a fish monster would be leading this year’s Oscar race, we&rsquo... Read more »

Steven Soderbergh is Hollywood’s most forward-thinking filmmaker. The Oscar-winning director has been a early adopter of cinema innovations like digita... Read more »

Solo, the latest spin-off in the Star Wars universe, has a lot to prove. Of the four films produced by Disney as part of their Star Wars expanded universe so... Read more »

It’s traditional for dogs to get hurt in Wes Anderson movies, from the family beagle that gets crushed under the wheels of Owen Wilson’s sports c... Read more »

Wes Anderson films tend to be set in refined environments: ornate hotels, elite private schools, finely upholstered New York brownstones. The location of his... Read more »

Weird Pullman: Zero Effect This sorely underrated 1997 comedy sees Pullman at his most manic. He plays Daryl Zero, a socially inept but brilliant private in... Read more »

Film fans dream about the wild and wonderful movies that never quite made it to screen. There’s Tarkovsky's failed attempt to make Hamlet, Stanley Kubr... Read more »

The fallout from Creative Scotland’s recent round of Regular Funding awards continues, as Scottish Youth Theatre has announced it will come to a close ... Read more »

Glaswegians love their movies. Glasgow cinemas have some of the UK's healthiest box office takings outside London, so the news that a new cinema will be open... Read more »

Gilded Balloon have announced their first wave of acts for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, with a pleasing mix of established names and emerging talent i... Read more »

With the likes of Martin Scorsese now making films with Netflix and directors like Nicolas Winding Refn and Yorgos Lanthimos currently making TV shows, the l... Read more »

Lucy Clout will be the Berwick Moving Image Artist in Residence for 2018, the festival has revealed. The Leeds-born, London-based moving-image artist, whose ... Read more »

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari does not want for critical praise. If anyone compiling a study of the silent era doesn’t include a sizable mention of Robert... Read more »

It’s no secret that the movie-making business continues to be male-dominated and full of barriers for female filmmakers hoping to get their foot on the... Read more »

It’s already been announced that the opening film of Edinburgh International Film Festival, Puzzle, will have a Scottish connection in the form of its ... Read more »

Fancy yourself a DJ? Mix the City lets you do just that. The British Council's online music platform centres on different cities around the world, and featur... Read more »

Today, the programme for the biggest art festival in the world has been announced. From 3 to 27 August, a total of 3548 shows will take place in 317 venues t... Read more »

Joe Dante is a lovable mischief-maker; call him the Loki of Hollywood. For four decades he’s been making some of the wiliest films in modern cinema. He... Read more »

“Life is mysterious, we don’t need to explain it. God doesn’t want us to question.” This is the advice a Bible-thumping mother (Forsy... Read more »

Steven Spielberg’s recent blockbuster Ready Player One made a stab at visualising what our online life will look like in 2045, and came up with an outl... Read more »

1. Hitchcock, Hitchcock Everywhere Cinema’s great stylist is back on a big screen near you this month with several of his best films receiving a dig... Read more »

This morning the nominees for this year’s Mercury Prize has been announced and, as ever for this award celebrating writing achievement across genres, i... Read more »