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  Black Death, from British director Christopher Smith (Triangle, Severance) is a bleak historical drama set during the 13th Century. As the bubonic pl... Read more »

Although it stars Matt Damon as a politician, that is (thankfully) not the characterisation upon which the plot of the film rests. David Norris (Damon) and ... Read more »

  The Sound of Noise follows detective Amadeus, who grew up in a classicallly trained family but has the misfortune of being tone-deaf. Meanwhile, a pa... Read more »

Atonement director Joe Wright makes a side-step into the assassin sub-genre with Hanna. It stars Saoirse Ronan as the titular cute-but-deadly teenager who's ... Read more »

After winning a Scottish BAFTA for Gary's War, Greg McHugh – the man we all know as Gary: Tank Commander – has gone on to write and star in two s... Read more »

Cameron Diaz is Elizabeth Halsey and she is a Bad Teacher. Her goal in life is to take care of number one – not her number one student. The wily and hi... Read more »

Cedric Diggory, Edward Cullen, and now Georges Duroy. Twenty-five year-old heart-throb Robert Pattinson – affectionately known as R-Pattz – ... Read more »

Give a score of fifteen to eighteen-year-old film fans a festival and what do they do? They programme Napoleon Dynamite (10 Feb) and Harold and Mau... Read more »

Judd Apatow revives characters from Knocked Up (2005) in this spin-off starring Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd. Attempting a Lena Dunham-esque take on the dreaded... Read more »

Hollywood and European glamour collide, leaving the scattered fall-out that is Oscar-winning director Florian Henckel von Donnersmark's The Tourist. Jolie st... Read more »

Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is unemployed and single. To allay his dumpee depression, he dates high-schooler Knives Chau (a sprightly and entertaining Ellen... Read more »

Chilean directing talent Cristián Jiménez's second feature film is one for the bookish. Bonsai's protagonist Julio (Diego Noguera) is more of a... Read more »

Deriving its name from the book that gave Apocalypse Now its story, Hearts of Darkness is perhaps the world's best-known "The Making of..." documentary. Narr... Read more »

Shrek's killer kitty spins off into his own fairytale franchise in Dreamworks' Puss in Boots. Antonio Banderas lends his dulcet tones to the feline hero who ... Read more »

Robot & Frank sees old film school friends, first-time feature director Jake Shreier, and writer Christopher D. Ford, team up with Frank Langella on a on... Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival 2013 opens with Populaire, Régis Roinsard's French take on the Pygmalion myth. Sure to appeal to those with a taste in gend... Read more »

The proud owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, Sigurður Hjartarson suffers from a peculiar form of penis envy. His collection could rightly be de... Read more »

Russell Brand returns as the demented musician and partyboy Aldous Snow in a Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off… and the only common denominator withi... Read more »

Los Angeles goes all-out new age with Lisa Cholodenko's queer comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right. Starring Annette Bening and Julianne M... Read more »

This weekend I hopped on a train to Sheffield to check out its 2010 Doc/Fest. A dynamic festival with its audience in mind, Doc/Fest has bucket-loads of char... Read more »

Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot was France's answer to Charlot (their fond nickname for Charlie Chaplin) in the 1950s. If you've seen The Illusionist... Read more »

Clio Barnard's incredible documentary The Arbor explores the life and legacy of playwright Andrea Dunbar. Concentrating its gaze on the run down estate in Br... Read more »

Treading the line between gritty social realism and slick gangster action, Wild Bill brings drugs, guns and family drama to Stratford, London. This directori... Read more »

Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest brings the story behind the titular rap group, featuring Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad,... Read more »

Aimed squarely at Middle America but with no audience in mind, The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a modern Pinocchio story so boring it makes We Bought a Zoo l... Read more »

Are we about to witness a film where Michael Cera plays a character other than George Michael from Arrested Development? Perhaps not, but Scott Pilgrim certa... Read more »

This kitschy British heist comedy stars Emily Blunt, Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman and - somewhat incidentally - Harry Potter's pal Rupert Grint. Wild Target's... Read more »

As Edinburgh International Film Festival shifts its focus towards first and second-time filmmakers, there has been a collective call to encourage others to g... Read more »

The ridiculously talented 22 year-old actor-director Xavier Dolan follows up his 2009 festival hit I Killed My Mother with Heartbeats (Les Amours I... Read more »

As a wise woman named Jeanine Basinger once said, "You give your heart to Fred Astaire but you save your body for Gene Kelly." And save itself Glasgow Film F... Read more »