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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 »

You’d be hard-pressed to pigeonhole Crystal Moselle. The filmmaker made waves back in 2015 with her award-winning debut The Wolfpack, a documentary abo... Read more »

In a chilly, charmless hotel room, two actors, a woman (Laetitia Dosch) and a man (Nick Fletcher), wait patiently. Around them, half a dozen people dressed i... Read more »

Milk and Blood Theatre take goofiness to a new level with their riotous late night farce The Dip. It all starts serenely enough – romantic even. The li... Read more »

Anna Meredith is the irrefutable queen of this year’s Edinburgh Festival. The composer has returned to the city in which she was raised this month with... Read more »

And the award goes to... an album from this newly announced SAY Award shortlist. Tonight the SAY judges have narrowed their longlist of albums competing for ... Read more »

Since 2013, music fans have been coming together to hail the glory of the compact audio cassette in the form of Cassette Store Day, and the annual celebratio... Read more »

Existential sci-fi is heading to the Lyceum next year, with the Edinburgh theatre teaming up with the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne to adapt Stanisław Lem&r... Read more »

The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival is back for its fifth edition this October offering a snapshot of Spanish cinema in 2018. Proceedings kick off with Jon G... Read more »

Update on 13 Sep: CCA's provisional opening date moves to mid-October. Glasgow School of Art has informed Glasgow City Council that it hopes to declare th... Read more »

1. Take One Action! We need Take One Action! (TOA), the UK’s leading social change film festival, more than ever. In a world where politicians lie d... Read more »

Want to feel old? Roald Dahl’s Matilda, the five-and-a-half-year-old bookworm with telekinetic powers, would now be in her mid-30s. This children's boo... Read more »

1. Africa in Motion The essential Africa in Motion returns with a fittingly vibrant opening in Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki, a pulsing work about two very ... Read more »

Park Chan-wook is a master stylist. Influenced by the cinema of Hitchcock, De Palma and Cronenberg, his fluid camera moves in thrilling and often beguilingly... Read more »

If it wasn't already undoubtedly clear, the 80s are back. So much so that Giorgio Moroder, the Godfather of Disco and the artist whose pioneering synth pop i... Read more »

We’ve not heard much about Stuart Murdoch’s film career since his fizzy directorial debut with Glasgow-set musical God Help the Girl. The Belle a... Read more »

French cinema is often the punching bag for the type of cultural critics who equate watching a film with subtitles to eating your cultural vegetables. But an... Read more »

The BIFAs (the British Independent Film Awards) continue to make a fine antidote to the stodgy BAFTAs. By the time the Oscars roll around next year, you&rsqu... Read more »

Heroes are easy. Real characters, people who are flawed and complex and full of contradictions, they can be tricky — but they’re so much more int... Read more »

This February, Puppet Animation Scotland's manipulate festival returns with another innovative line-up of award-winning visual theatre, puppetry and animated... Read more »

Aesthetica is huge. Back in York for its eighth installment, the short film festival spreads itself out across the city, making great use of an eclectic arra... Read more »