After success with ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’, Edgar Wright took to North America with his off-kilter adaptation ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ (2010). Christopher Connor looks back in this retrospective review.
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Two rival ice cream gangs and the radio presenter stuck in the middle of it all. That’s the premise for Bill Forsyth’s 1984 comedy ‘Comfort and Joy’, a landmark of Scottish cinema according to Mark Carnochan.
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“Hilarious, heartwarming and sweet”, Disney Pixar short film ‘Out’ marks the animation studio’s first openly LGBTQ+ narrative. Rebecca Seghini reviews the film now available on Disney Plus.
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Forty years on from the premature death of one of the UK’s great music artists, Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Leoni Horton analyses Anton Corbijn’s 2007 biopic ‘Control’, a movie about the man and the city that helped make him.
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Netflix wine movie ‘Uncorked’, from director Prentice Penny and starring Mamoudou Athie, “gets so much right” and puts across the “almost magical power of food and drink”. Sam Sewell-Peterson reviews.
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Irish gang drama ‘Calm with Horses’ (2019) is a stunning visual presentation with an atmospheric and moody score. Barry Keoghan and Cosmo Jarvis star. Sam Sewell-Peterson reviews.
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The Cornetto Trilogy came to an end with ‘The World’s End’ (2013), with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright offering perhaps their most underrated film. Christopher Connor reviews.
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A BAFTA and Oscar winner, ‘The Full Monty’ is “not just a northern comedy about men who take their clothes off”. Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy star in Peter Cattaneo’s South Yorkshire classic. Annice White reviews.
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Once thought lost to an underhanded “distributor”, the story of how Scottish cult horror movie ‘Blood Junkies’ (1993) found a release is probably even more interesting than the film. Mark Carnochan reviews.
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Austin Butler is to lead a new film from Sony Pictures and 'Powers'