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Post-apocalyptic survival has fascinated writers for centuries, and filmmakers for as long as moving images have been around. The particular sub-genre known ... Read more »

Berwick-upon-Tweed’s border town status makes it a location for a festival that probes at the margins between different media: films, exhibitions, inst... Read more »

“Right now, I’m revolting against the conventions of movies,” said New York filmmaker Shirley Clarke when making her first feature, The Con... Read more »

A warped reflection and an almost-voyeuristic montage of attractive young women navigating New York’s busy streets give an appropriately unnerving feel... Read more »

In 1972 there were two comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe. One you will have heard of, while the other is as important to comedy as anyone else in the UK &nda... Read more »

25. Paddington 2 Dir. Paul King Once again Paul King marries Michael Bond’s genteel charms with his own hugely imaginative visual style to create a... Read more »

Over the past few years, Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn has become a familiar face to British cinemagoers, often playing variations on a particularly unhing... Read more »

The prospect of crafting a worthy successor to the phenomenal The Act of Killing is a daunting one, but with The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer has rise... Read more »

As self-aware as the name demands, Marvel's latest hero belies his size to be a hugely enjoyable addition to the studio's growing superhero universe. Helmed ... Read more »

Half a century ago, Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut sat down together for a week to discuss the former’s career in its entirety. The... Read more »

Absurdity is Jon Stewart's weapon of choice in his directorial debut, Rosewater. It recounts the ordeals of London-based Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari (Be... Read more »

Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's Catch Me Daddy opens to a creation myth recited with childlike naivety over images of a windswept, almost primeval landscape. Thou... Read more »

"That was a present," protests Shirin (writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan) when her girlfriend returns a mysterious box to her amidst an acrimonious break-... Read more »

Vivid and grainy 16mm photography evokes the notion of a family out of step in Alice Rohrwacher's sophomore feature, The Wonders. A beguiling and impressioni... Read more »

As a modest portrait of an ostentatious fashion icon, Iris is an absolute delight. The final film by the equally legendary documentarian Albert Maysles (befo... Read more »

The Dardenne brothers are not the kind of directors one associates with genre fare, and while The Unknown Girl meets all of the prerequisites of their social... Read more »

Superhero movies don't have the monopoly on trilogies, as Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes's three-part take on the One Thousand and One Nights tales attests. He... Read more »

Contradictions are the order of the day in Anna Muylaert's subversive yet heartwarming The Second Mother. The tone is a deft balance between class drama... Read more »

2016 has been dubbed the year of Krzysztof Kieślowski, being that it's 20 years since the great Polish filmmaker’s death. Tributes and retrospectives h... Read more »

“How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you’re such a traditionalist?” John Legend’s Keith asks Sebastian (Gosling) in La La Land. I... Read more »

“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars...” These may be words penned by HP Lovecraft in his short story... Read more »

There are few writers operating in mainstream media today who exhibit the kind of auteurial control we see from Aaron Sorkin. His screenplay for Steve Jobs &... Read more »

Fantasy and reality blend in Miguel Gomes's epic three-part remix of Scheherazade’s Arabian Nights folktales. We gather round the campfire with the Por... Read more »

Kit Harington would seem to have been catapulted to star status by his lead heartthrob role in the wildly successful Game of Thrones. It’s not been qui... Read more »

Damon lays on his all-American charm as Mark Watney, a botanist left stranded on the surface of the red planet after he's hit by debris and presumed dead by ... Read more »

Over the course of Charlie Kaufman's cinematic career, he's been fascinated with the complexities of the human mind and the vehicles – whether they be ... Read more »

Inspired by critic Kent Jones' Hitchcock/Truffaut, we pay tribute to those great ouroboroi of cinema: films about film. Below are five of the best, from a do... Read more »

Three little dots. There's little in contemporary society as adept at inducing anxiety as the pulsating ellipsis that represents a friend composing a respons... Read more »

Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy professor going through a crisis in the new work from Eden director Mia Hansen-Løve  “I’m luc... Read more »

First impressions can be deceptive. Nick Cody comes across as something of a gruff, bear-like comedian for at least the first quarter of an hour of Bear... Read more »