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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 »

The blue pill or the red pill? That’s the choice Glasgow Film Festival will be offering up this year as they bring the Wachowskis’ 1999 film The ... Read more »

During the 1960s and 70s, world cinema was awash with filmmaking waves. The Nouvelle Vague were reinventing film language, the New Hollywood were shaking Ame... Read more »

Each year Edinburgh International Film Festival takes the temperature of the cinema of a different country; Canada, Poland and Finland have been among the na... Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival rarely disappoints when it comes to their opening and closing galas, and the 15th edition of the much-loved festival is no exception. T... Read more »

Remarkably, in 2019, Bros are the band on everybody's lips. The reason the Goss brothers, Matt and Luke, are back in the spotlight is thanks to the hilarious... Read more »

Riverside Festival returns to Glasgow for its seventh edition this May, and today the stonking line-up for the electronic weekender has been announced. Orga... Read more »

By this time next week we’ll all know the sure-to-be-interesting line-up of the 15th Glasgow Film Festival, with the full programme revealed on Wednesd... Read more »

A Ghostbusters sequel is coming! But it’s not the lively, goofy, all-female reboot from 2016 that’s getting a new film, but the much-loved o... Read more »

French auteur Claire Denis (Beau Travail, 35 Shots of Rum, White Material) might be the finest director working right now, so it goes without saying that her... Read more »

Oscar results should always be taken with a pinch of salt. As a rule, Best Picture never goes to the film of the year. If you’ve watched past winners l... Read more »

Step aside A Star Is Born, there’s a new drama about a raw singing talent reaching for the heavens, although the diamond in the rough of Wild Rose is a... Read more »

It’s been ten years since New Zealand comedy-folk duo Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie last appeared together on screen as Flight of the Conchords, in... Read more »

Props to Dieter Kosslick. Unlike his contemporaries at Cannes and Venice, the director of the Berlin International Film Festival apparently knows that women ... Read more »

Glasgow Short Film Festival is back this March and they’re opening in pretty radical style with a visit from the mighty New York-based duo Soda_Jerk. D... Read more »

There were many reasons to cheer last night’s Oscars. The surprise Best Actress award for Olivia Colman over the hot favourite, Glenn Close (please che... Read more »

You wouldn’t want to be trapped in a faulty lift with characters from an Alex Ross Perry joint; truthfully, sharing a functioning one for a few floors ... Read more »

The opening of Captain Marvel is genuinely surprising – if a bit confusing. It begins with a dream, but the opening act’s mood in general is deci... Read more »

This thrillingly dreamlike and borderline baffling detective yarn, set in the sunny but sinister LA familiar to David Lynch and Thomas Pynchon fans, follows ... Read more »

Glasgow is innately cool, but there’s always a new neighbourhood trying to market itself as No Mean City’s most happening part of town.... Read more »

Back in February, Stirlingshire festival Doune the Rabbit Hole announced its first wave of acts, which included both massive international artists like John ... Read more »

To Bo'ness last month, for one of the jewels in Scotland’s film calendar. This small coastal town in West Lothian is home to the Hippodrome, Scotl... Read more »

Edinburgh Council's attack on the arts continues apace. Its latest target is Stills, the city's much-loved photographic gallery, which is facing a huge rent ... Read more »

Two years ago, artist Phil Collins travelled to a Ukrainian village near the Russian border and found a statue of Friedrich Engels unceremoniously seque... Read more »

The curtain-raiser for the upcoming edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival will be a home-grown action comedy set deep in the Scottish Highland... Read more »