Film

Chained

Dark, twisted and occasionally floundering horror starring Vincent D’Onofrio and Julia Ormond

Such is his unique place in modern cinema, it would be almost impossible to move out of David Lynch’s shadow. Wisely, his daughter Jennifer Chambers Lynch doesn’t even try. After her disastrous debut Boxing Helena two decades ago, her recent directorial…

Movie 43

A sloppily slung together anthology film starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet

Movie 43 is as star-studded as it is puerile and therein lies its solitary appeal. With directors including Peter Farrelly, Brett Ratner and Elizabeth Banks, it’s an anthology that’s sloppily slung together, combining spectacular immaturity with…

Spring culture preview 2013

Nick Evans: Solar Eyes Evans' forthcoming solo show features a new set of his striking amorphic white plaster sculptures. The most ambitious is a large architectural complex which mimics the geometry of an Aztec temple. Evans' fascination with motifs…

Glasgow Film Festival 2013: Programme highlights

Including The Place Beyond the Pines, Aftershock and Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing

Simon Munnery: Fylm-Makker A new, highly inventive live show from comedian Simon Munnery. Getting its first outing at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Fylm-Makker now comes to Glasgow as part of a UK-wide tour. It’s an innovative mix of music, animation…

Hollow

A real British spin on the 'found footage' horror subgenre, from Michael Axelgaard

Inevitably, Michael Axelgaard's impressive debut Hollow will be compared to The Blair Witch Project. A low-budget found-footage horror film, dealing with myths, legends and the fear of the unknown, it could quite happily sit alongside the 1999…

The King of Pigs

Korean adult animation with a thought-provoking storyline and great attention to detail

The first feature from award-winning shorts director Yeon Sang-ho has a visual look reminiscent of a Studio Ghibli production allied to a narrative in the classic film noir manner. Bankrupt businessman Hwang Kyung-min murders his wife and then reaches…

Everyday

Michael Winterbottom's poetic-realist prison drama is deserving of a cinematic release

Shot intermittently over a five-year period, writer-director Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday is explicitly concerned with the passing of time. Ian (John Simm) is serving a jail sentence for an unspecified crime, and he receives visits from his wife…

The Punk Syndrome

Music documentary following Finnish punk outsiders Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät

A sleeper hit on the film festival circuit, The Punk Syndrome follows the trials and tribulations of Finland’s Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, a punk band whose members have learning disabilities and their rise in popularity within the local crust-punk scene…

The Last Stand

Schwarzenegger's comeback vehicle is a genuine guilty pleasure

Arnold Schwarzenegger rolls back the years and rolls off the one-liners for his return to leading man status in The Last Stand. A throwback to his own violent back catalogue as well as the classic Western style of High Noon and Rio Bravo, The Last Stand…

Hollywood actor John C Reilly to play intimate music show in Glasgow

The star of Wreck-It Ralph is also a roots musician

Hollywood star John C Reilly will be visiting the Glasgow's St Andrews in The Square on Tue 12 Feb to play an intimate gig, alongside fellow musicians Becky Stark and Tom Brosseau. Reilly, who is signed to Jack White's Third Man Records label, plays…

Glasgow Film Festival 2013: Entre Chien et Loup

Mysterious arts patron Randolph Kemp Potter invites you to his Gold Ballroom Party

One of the most eye-catching events on the programme for this year’s Glasgow Film Festival is a decadent party themed around the Gold Ballroom scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The event - part performance, part party - is hosted by colourful…

A preview of the Edinburgh Iranian Festival 2013

The festival brings together film, music, visual art, and comedy in the shape of Patrick Monahan

When you mention Iran in the current climate, most people think of the politics of the country. But there is of course more to the place than what we see in the news – and the 2013 Edinburgh Iranian Festival is our opportunity to learn more about…

5 highlights from the Glasgow Youth Film Festival

Wreck-It Ralph and Studio Ghibli's Wolf Children form part of Glasgow Film Festival's youth strand

1. Girl Walk // All Day An outdoor, interactive screening of this New York-set dance film, a hit at last year’s South by South West Festival. It follows three dancers performing across the city to the sounds of DJ Girl Talk’s album All Day. (River Clyde…

Music strand at 2013 Glasgow Film Festival - programme highlights

Music/film hybrid programme features Jane Birkin, Dark Star and Whatever Gets You Through the Night

GFF 2013 can barely wait to expose its music and film strand delights, with the hotly-anticipated Jane Birkin’s Songs of Serge providing a pre-festival pulse-quickener. A rare and intimate live performance by Serge Gainsbourg’s former muse will see her…

Ballroom Dancer

Downbeat documentary about former World Latin American Dance Champion Slavik Kryklyvyy

This sombre and self-important documentary, about former World Latin American Dance Champion Slavik Kryklyvyy’s attempt to regain his position after a decade out of the spotlight, aims to show the tough, serious and painful flipside to what happens on…

Fear and Desire

Stanley Kubrick's first film is a fascinating snapshot of a director in development

Stanley Kubrick’s little seen 1953 debut feature, Fear and Desire, which was funded by his family and friends, finally gets a DVD and Blu-ray release. It’s an unconventional but compelling film as four soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines…

Interview: Director Glenn McQuaid on horror anthology V/H/S

Films from genre's best upcoming directors, including Ti West, David Bruckner and Adam Wingard

You can easily argue that the VHS era was a golden age for horror. Directors like John Carpenter, Wes Craven and Dario Argento were releasing innovative new films while franchise juggernauts such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellraiser…

Profile: Brandon Cronenberg, director of Antiviral

Debut feature from son of David Cronenberg explores celebrity obsession and illness

Born: Toronto, Canada, 1985. Background: The son of a director you might have heard of called David and his wife Carolyn Zeifman, who have been married since 1979, Brandon Cronenberg premiered his debut feature as a writer/director at last year’s Cannes…

Jeff Mills, Dieter Moebius, JD Twitch and Raime perform live film soundtracks at 2013 Glasgow Film Festival

Woman in the Moon, Baraka and Metropolis among films featuring live score

Science-fiction and electronic music have long co-existed in parallel universes, the assorted experimental visionaries behind them predicting the future. Detroit techno pioneer and long-term sci-fi obsessive Jeff Mills in particular has made such a…

Bullhead

Rust and Bone's Matthias Schoenaerts shines in this slightly muddled Belgian crime drama

Fans of Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone will be keen to see that film’s impressive male lead Matthias Schoenaerts again, and this Belgian drama (its homeland’s Oscar entry) gives him plenty to chew on. As Jacky, an underworld hustler and supplier of…

George Kuchar celebrated at 2013 Glasgow Film Festival

Screenings of films by "Warner Brothers of the underground" filmmaker

It’s hard to ignore an event titled 'A Laxative of Love for the Constipated Cinefile’. The line, taken from the dedication in the autobiography of filmmaking brothers George and Mike Kuchar reads in full: 'Dedicated to every motley crew of no-budget…

Best films featuring subways, metros and underground railways

Featuring Skyfall, The French Connection and The Taking of Pelham 123

A mystery screening at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival takes you beneath the city’s streets for a film event in the subway. Cinema has long had affection for the warren-like tunnels and passageways of the underground – here are five of our favourite…

Interview - horror directors Jen and Sylvia Soska

The writer/director duo talk American Mary, horror movies and Dead Hooker

Writing/directing duo the Soska sisters made a cult splash with their debut Dead Hooker in a Trunk, a grimy, blackly comic ultra low budget shocker. Now they are back with a far more ambitious second feature, American Mary (out now on DVD and Blu-ray)…

Why do we love romantic comedies?

The best of the modern rom com genre, and what makes it so irresistible, despite its flaws

Did you and your partner meet a) at a friend’s dinner party, b) smoking outside a pub or c) when the heartless multinational company they work for bulldozed your cosy little wedding dress shop to make way for a heartless multinational office block?

Interview: Park Chan-wook - Korean director on his Hitchcockian thriller Stoker

Latest film from director of Oldboy stars Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman

The Korean director of Oldboy turned down Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy and The Evil Dead remake to direct Stoker, which was written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller. Taken from the annual Black List of the best, unproduced scripts and produced by…