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The inaugural Jan Fairley Award, celebrating the work of Edinburgh-based emerging journalists, has been awarded to The Skinny’s books editor Alan Bett.... Read more »

In 1972, before impending Sino hegemony and fear of the day the tanks roll down Princes Street, China was a secretive state hidden behind a bamboo curtain. Y... Read more »

The modern Chinese Diaspora has been tackled many times in film, most recently in the documentary Last Train Home, but never have I seen it contemplated... Read more »

Within the walls of a 1970s Italian film studio a living nightmare of sensory manipulation peaks and holds us under the sinister control of a lucid dream. To... Read more »

This 1953 Japanese classic is a banquet of visual delights, a tapestry of vibrant colour, which regrettably becomes frayed at the edges. Morito is a mid-rank... Read more »

The rootless beings of the title are a performance troupe in post war Japan, moving perpetually through the country as happy wanderers. Returning to a rural ... Read more »

“I wanted this to be very different from Like Crazy, I wanted her to feel different. The story was different, tonally. It was a love story that was mor... Read more »

The internet is a dangerously empowering tool in this true story, which has been knit into a taut thriller by British director Andrew Douglas. Set in 2003, u... Read more »

Macau, a peninsula hanging off the south coast of China, is, in the words of filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, &ldqu... Read more »

Here is the film to put director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka on the map, partly due to its controversy (it was banned in its native South Africa and reinstated in a m... Read more »

If the close-up is cinema’s most powerful tool, not to be overused, tell director Steven Knight, who focuses intently of the face of Tom Hardy in this ... Read more »

Iya is a place, not a person, although it comes to be one over a 169 minute running time which never overstays its welcome. This is the astonishing second fi... Read more »

Ti West has emerged over recent years as the most exciting new voice in horror. He freshened up the genre with two lo-fi knockouts – 80s slasher homage... Read more »

Neu! Reekie! You don’t really know what to expect when turning up to see the Neu! Reekie! crew - there is always a mix of animation, film, poetry and m... Read more »

While the sun has set on both Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Scottish summer itself, it would take a narrow, pessimistic mind to feel that the... Read more »

In James Kelman’s afterword to the new printing of his Lean Third collection of short stories, he ponders over the use of Gil Sans in the original... Read more »

It could be said that Marlon Brando was to blame. In 1996, his contempt for his craft was dragging the already fractured production of The Island of Dr ... Read more »

“I asked a judge, 'Will there be an amputation or an execution in the next few days?' And the judge said 'No… because our amputations have been ... Read more »

Darkness falls over Charlotte Square Gardens. Day turns into night. And while the Book Festival proper tucks itself into bed, in the Spiegeltent they are sti... Read more »

Hmmm, how to describe Unbound? Do we have any poker players out there? Of course we do. Now that doesn’t sound too literary a comparison does it? That ... Read more »

I won't call James Kelman’s new novel the feelgood book of the summer. Partly as, while sunnier in disposition than many previous works, its story is s... Read more »

As her hypnotic debut novel Everyone is Watching publishes in paperback, Megan Bradbury discusses telling the story of New York. A city whose narrative arc s... Read more »

Here director Hong-jin Na looks beyond Hollywood’s horizon of expectation and makes the outsider cliché contemporary with a story initially livi... Read more »

Through the lens of Christopher Doyle we view an imagined reality, a world containing some of cinema's most beautiful images. He seduces us with cheongsam-cl... Read more »

Should art be judged? We can ponder the woulda, coulda, shoulda but the key reality is that it will be. Or should that be has been, as the perennial awards ... Read more »

To be a junkie in L.A.’s eighties rock scene “was so important, it was so de rigueur,” drawls Courtney Love in new documentary Bob and the ... Read more »

In the paranoid Cold War coke comedown of the early 1980s David Cronenberg unleashed this unsettling masterwork, now on Blu-ray. James Wood is Max, a sleazy ... Read more »

Our primal fear of haunted houses is fertile ground for the horror devotees, but it’s been well farmed over the years. Now director Ti West adds to the... Read more »

With horror there are no second chances. That tight strung wire of terror and suspense can be easily cut; as is the case in this impressive but flawed new fi... Read more »

The antithesis of the all too common ‘balletic’ form of cinema violence, Dan Reed’s 2001 feature Shooters is a raw slice of brutality set i... Read more »