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Revered author Joseph Castleman (Pryce) is lucky to have his devoted wife Joan (Close) by his side, a fact he’s keen to point out at every opportunity.... Read more »

Chances are you haven’t heard of El Marginal. Despite the clever algorithms that tell us all what to watch and the tidal waves of critical coverage tha... Read more »

South Korean director Yeun Sang-ho selects pessimistic pigments to sketch the maturation of bullying in his animation The King of Pigs. Following 15 years of... Read more »

Shunning doublet and hose in favour of tastefully tailored suburbia, Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is a lithe, wry look at one of Shakespeare&rs... Read more »

“The director’s job is to secretly want to do everybody else’s job. If you’re not a wannabe, you’re going to miss out on someth... Read more »

Suburban teenager Charley (Ragsdale) is on the brink of taking his relationship with girlfriend Amy (Bearse) to the next level when he clocks the arrival of ... Read more »

The fifth Africa in Motion Short Film Competition, which took place on 29 Oct, was a sensory expedition spanning eight countries, six UK premieres, five... Read more »

On a sales call to a gloomy Chinatown cliché emporium, Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) obtains a mogwai, a wittering Furby/shih-tzu hybrid as Christmas g... Read more »

Dear Hollywood, I’m leaving you. I’ve met someone. Something. It’s over. Do you remember when I went to Paris last year? On my last night... Read more »

Music teacher Keith (Pierce) is fighting suburban suffocation. He sneaks guilty cigarettes and regretful pauses as he considers what might have been if he ch... Read more »

How much money would it take to get you to do something totally depraved, like hack off your own finger? Everyone has their price in E.L. Katz’s t... Read more »

A documentary crew follows the lives of four vampires living in a Wellington suburb. The key word here is ‘vampires’. Exchange it for ‘midw... Read more »

The backdrop: green-screen North Korea. The premise: self-serving hacks Dave Skylark (James Franco) and Aaron Rapaport (Seth Rogen) attempt to claw some stan... Read more »

The dress code was black t-shirt and green canvas bag, the canapé of choice a gently nibbled Butterkist, washed down with Punk IPA from a plastic cup.... Read more »

In 1897, Danish photographer Peter Elfelt etched snow and fur onto celluloid as he captured Travelling with Greenlandic Dogs. A husky-drawn sled rushes its d... Read more »

Among things a young woman never wants to hear from a septuagenarian male acquaintance, “You can come over and use our pool any time” ranks highl... Read more »

Ada (Holly Hunter), a mute, 30-something Scotswoman, is uprooted and transported overseas with her precocious daughter (Anna Paquin) to wed an Antipodean lan... Read more »

Like any Quaalude high, The Wolf of Wall Street depends on a certain degree of willing consumption, cerebral detachment and tenacity to be considered success... Read more »

It’s 15th-century China. A noble minister has been executed and his children exiled by ferocious eunuch Cao (Ying). Despatched to murder the exiles bef... Read more »

Might society soar if only we discharged the economic ballast? Such notions illuminate Swedish filmmaker Maja Borg’s debut feature, Future My Love, whi... Read more »

"Everyone has been incredibly honest. That’s the key, not just to documentary, but to any kind of filmmaking." So emerged Maja Borg’s film of fu... Read more »

There are not, and never should be, critical terms to dictate what is funny. Nonetheless, it's a pivotal fact that when Zak Galafianakis allowed a tiny monke... Read more »

With ten films, four days, and innumerable terrors to await, the deliciously dubbed Dundead II is laying siege to Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) centre for a... Read more »

To warm applause and a staccato litany of SLR shutters, host Grant Laughlan announced the welcome reprisal of the Edinburgh International Film Festival Award... Read more »

In synopsis Michaël R. Roskam’s feature debut is just another gangster tangle of black market drug-peddling, Coen-esque deadpan and unrequited lov... Read more »

It’s 1963, and high school student Umi wakes each morning to raise signal flags to the drifting tugboats of postcard-pretty Yokohama. When local boy Sh... Read more »

With a clang from a leaden door knocker, the first of Roger Corman’s eight Edgar Allan Poe treatments creaks open unpromisingly, wreathed in sickly mis... Read more »

Watching a DW Griffith film is like watching Shakespeare indite his first couplets. Griffith didn’t invent cinema any more than the Bard invented langu... Read more »

Why the palpable reality of stop motion animations like My Life as a Courgette – which screens at this year's Glasgow Film Festival – are essenti... Read more »

Split, the latest from The Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan, has as many fractured identities as its main character Dissociative identity disorder is... Read more »