Cannes Film Festival

Cannes 2012: The Paperboy

Lee Daniels’ plot hole-ridden latest film is still a compelling, if occasionally ludicrous, ride

25 May 2012

Lee Daniels follows up his sleeper hit Precious with an enjoyably trashy, if often misguided, story based on the book by Pete Dexter. It’s 1969 and journalist Ward (Matthew McConaughey) returns to his hometown of Lately, Florida to investigate what…

Cannes 2012: On the Road

Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel struggles to capture a sense of the times

25 May 2012

If, for two and a half hours, you can put aside the fact that Walter Salles’ (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) latest work is an adaptation of one of the most famous, influential books in recent American history, you might just enjoy this…

Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up revealed

Highlights include Cosmopolis, On the Road, The Paperboy and The Angels' Share

20 Apr 2012

Cannes Film Festival has never been short on big names but this year’s event looks set to be positively swimming with stars after it unveiled a competition brimming with famous faces and with a heavy representation of American cinema. Of the 21 films…

Cannes 2012: Killing Them Softly

Andrew Dominik’s stylish gangster film is visually impressive if occasionally lacking momentum

24 May 2012

Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik’s third film following Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, is a bleakly humourous gangster flick with an underlying commentary on modern day moral bankruptcy. It begins with…

Cannes 2012: Trashed

British documentary about waste pollution could have done with burrowing deeper

24 May 2012

Watching British documentary Trashed it’s curious to think who the filmmakers imagined their audience to be. Exploring the impact and problems of waste disposal, the film barely scrapes the surface of its subject matter, giving the air of a dry…

Cannes Diary

22 May 2008

The start of the Cannes 2008 film festival was dominated by two films that delve into the recent past to raise pertinent and timely questions about how the State deals with those they consider terrorists. Billed as cinema’s first animated documentary…

EIFF 2009 - Fish Tank

11 Jun 2009

Andrea Arnold is a director who likes to work on instinct. She makes films that are defined by their acute observation of real lives rather than informed by a movie buff’s love affair with cinema. The point is underlined at the Cannes launch of her new…

Michelle Williams' Cannes comeback

Celebrity Gossip

23 May 2008

Michelle Williams made her first major public appearance since the death of Heath Ledger at the Cannes Film Festival last night (22.05.08). The former 'Dawson's Creek' actress - who was left devastated by the news her ex-fiance had died after an…

Madonna's Cannes demands

Celebrity Gossip

22 May 2008

Madonna stunned hotel staff in Cannes. The '4 Minutes' singer - who is in the French town for the world famous Film Festival - issued a barrage of requests to the Carlton Hotel before her arrival. Madonna insisted her £1,000-a-night suite was kept…

Can Film Festival comes to Glasgow

10 Apr 2008

Green movie event shows new Leonardo DiCaprio documentary Forget Cannes and start queuing up for your tickets to the inaugural Can Film Festival. Leonardo DiCaprio’s green documentary 11th Hour is to be shown at three locations, including Glasgow…