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Reunited with Ewan McGregor, Young Adam director David Mackenzie helms this high concept, pseudo-apocalyptic vision concerning the threat of a global vi... Read more »

Big in Russia: an idiom not as often heard as ‘big in Japan’. Despite their successes in the former Soviet Union - they've released two Russian-o... Read more »

In her youth, Maria Enders (Binoche) made her name in Maloja Snake, a play in which a young woman seduces her boss – an older woman – and drives ... Read more »

Suffering from PTSD and facing the likelihood that – against his wishes – he won’t be redeployed by the military, Vincent (Matthias Schoena... Read more »

There's a potentially great double bill of East German political films to be programmed: The Lives of Others followed by Goodbye, Lenin! Tonally, they’... Read more »

Guillaume Canet’s follow-up to Tell No One is a change of pace, from intense thriller to ensemble comedy-drama, but it's no less compelling. Starring F... Read more »

Diplomatic dilemma and political blame-dodging; children being removed from their mothers, dispatched for ‘better lives’ in the colonies only to ... Read more »

Set to return for its ninth year, Document (20-23 Oct), the Glasgow based international human rights documentary film festival, is showing no signs of c... Read more »

Birdengine is the creative output of Lawry Joseph Tilbury. Following a number of releases on Benbecula Records, The Crooked Mile is his first full length alb... Read more »

Every Scottish review of this record will doubtlessly refer to the recognisable moniker of this sextet from Portland, Oregon, but with this, their first rele... Read more »

Having previously released an album with locally respected Edinburgh based label Song, by Toad, Yusaf Azak has chosen to release this EP on his lonesome thro... Read more »

If 2010's The Big Black & The Blue marked their initial emergence from the backwoods of Stockholm from the resonant echoes of their now notorious Fleet F... Read more »

Teetotal detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pederson) returns to his hometown in the Australian Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl. Forced to endure bo... Read more »

Cosmic airline coincidence begets claustrophobic violence begets matrimonial mayhem in this portmanteau feature from Damián Szifrón. Co-produce... Read more »

Recounting the life of the revered American chess master famed for his strange behaviour and seemingly unmatched ability, Bobby Fischer Against the World cen... Read more »

  Embracing its former reputation as the intellectual film festival, the 65th EIFF’s Project: New Cinephilia invites critics, bloggers, journalis... Read more »

Back in October, among the bar queues of The Usher Hall, a smattering of shared opinions pronounce Kathleen Edwards "not a million miles away from Laura Veir... Read more »

Having impressed with four eclectic EPs (most notably last year's Gone Blind) and stirred significant buzz at 2011’s SXSW, Porcelain Raft release debut... Read more »

With Oh Fortune – the follow up to 2009’s Nice, Nice, Very Nice which largely brought the Canadian singer songwriter to the attention o... Read more »

La Frette is an opulent 19th century manor house, 15 minutes outside of Paris, near the banks of the river Seine. Surrounded by leafy gardens, the house sits... Read more »

The first half hour of this 70s-set coming-of-age story, of a country farm girl discovering herself in the Parisian lesbian and women’s rights movement... Read more »

Q1. Though better known for her album of Tom Waits renditions… (Mr Goldberg interjects) Scarlett Johansson. You have to let me finish the question s... Read more »

As a queue formed outside Inspace (part of the University of Edinburgh’s informatics building), passers by must have been baffled as to what sort of ev... Read more »

What would you do if an extraterrestrial landed in your neighbourhood? It’s a question that has undoubtedly crossed many people's minds since E.T. firs... Read more »

Absurdity and eccentricity abound in The Guard, the directorial debut from Ned Kelly screenwriter John Michael McDonagh, which sees maverick lawman Sgt. Gerr... Read more »

Your mobile phone could be funding war in the Congo. It may sound absurd and obtuse but in his new documentary, Blood in the Mobile, Danish filmmaker Frank P... Read more »

Dwarfed and surrounded by the overwhelming array of instruments belonging to the nine piece Bon Iver, Canadian singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards confronts t... Read more »

Recorded entirely in drummer/producer David Maclean’s bedroom with nothing but rickety gear, Django Django, a London-based group of former Edinburgh Co... Read more »

Herman Dune can be a difficult band to get into. Their kitsch ‘quirky’ sound is a factor for some, and for others there can a question of where ... Read more »

The fruits of a few years' absence and an ongoing collaboration with Bon Iver figurehead Justin Vernon, Voyageur presents a more developed, confident, and ar... Read more »