Mad Rush review – an intricate phone scam isn’t quite enough to drive this very Melbourne movie
In Hollywood’s hands this would be a pulse-pounding thriller, but Maddelin McKenna’s lithe feature debut is all about street-level authenticity
Post your questions for Robert Carlyle
Bond villain, Begbie, male stripper … the Trainspotting and Full Monty star has played everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Rumpelstiltskin. As his latest directorial project premieres in Edinburgh, he is here to answer your questions
Brian Robinson obituary
Other lives: BFI press officer and programmer for its Flare film festival
Borges, ballet and BDSM: 10 must-see movies at Edinburgh international film festival
The great Argentinian’s Highlands holiday, a mischievous doc about Jack the Ripper, the hypnotic latest from Nicolas Winding Refn and a kinky noir romp are among the best of this year’s lineup
Edinburgh international film festival showcases a Scottish industry in rude health
This year’s festival is superpowered by a strong year for Scottish cinema, showing it can thrive under the ‘four dimensional perpetual catch-22’ of global ambitions
In Venice, it’s not politics as usual as film-makers aim to recapture our attention
As social media shrinks and distorts the EU’s crises, the Venice film festival is delivering politically forthright epics from directors such as Sergei Loznitsa and Alex Gibney
‘I turned down Gandhi because I’m terrified of snakes’: the amazing movie memories of Bruce Dern
Famed for playing loners, cranks and wayward angels, the Hollywood star is now a wolfish 90 – but he still jogs daily. As he takes his latest film to Edinburgh, we meet the man Hitchcock called ‘the golden calf’
I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming review – brilliant bulletin from Ukrainian frontline dives deep into culture war
A couple attempting to leave Ukraine when the war begins encounter gender identity issues in this bold and challenging film
On tour with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth and Foo Fighters: raw music documentary captures Australia’s ‘best summer’
In 1995, US film-maker Tamra Davis travelled to Australia to capture the one-off Summersault tour on her camcorder. Thirty years on she has made The Best Summer, an intimate snapshot of an era that can never be repeated
Murdoch and Musk in the crosshairs at Venice film festival
Danny Boyle’s drama about the acquisition of the Sun and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary will premiere alongside new films from Martin McDonagh and Werner Herzog – but only one female director has a movie in competition
Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup
The 51st edition of the Canadian festival will also feature world premieres starring Taron Egerton, Amanda Seyfried and Chase Infiniti
Gillian Armstrong remembers Sam Neill: ‘I can’t believe that the very next day he was gone’
The Australian director who gave the actor his big break in My Brilliant Career remembers ‘a smart, gentle, decent, passionate, loyal, surprisingly funny man’
Melbourne international film festival 2026: eight must-see films, one TV show and an ‘astonishing’ VR experience
Our picks include a hard-hitting drama starring Channing Tatum, a new Australian dramedy featuring Hugo Weaving and The Pitt’s Shabana Azeez, plus a film from a chook’s eye-view
The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more
The film-maker and critic traces a decade of documentaries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Michael Moore, via Klaus Barbie and The Wombles
Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory
Coinciding with a fallow year for the festival, these scenes filmed in 1993 record a youth culture innocent of camera phones and low on corporate hype