Cult Column

In his opening monologue for this year’s Oscars, Neil Patrick Harris joked about the awards honouring “Hollywood’s best and whitest- sorry, brightest”, seemingly indicating at least a modicum of self-awareness…

Frequently hailed as the worst movie ever made, The Room is showing in Edinburgh this weekend, the latest of its showings to audiences around the world who find nothing but…

The problem with James Franco is that he can get away with anything. Once again, he has made the headlines with more gay drama, this time fuelled by a slow-mo…

The past couple of years have seen something of a trend emerge in western cinema with films like Transcendence, The Machine, Her and most recently Ex Machina. These are all…

The Western is one of the oldest film genres out there; it has existed throughout the 20th century and well into the 21st, and during this time, the genre has…

Auteur extraordinaire and self-publicising egomaniac Quentin Tarantino has announced his intention to retire after his 10th film, to the surprise and disbelief of many. During a recent Q&A for his…

War is an obsession of cinema; the big screen relishes it, and audiences flock back time and again to watch films about conflict.

Musicals are known to be box office safe zones. Along with movies starring a bespectacled wizard or a motor-fuel slathered Megan Fox, films that involve familiar red carpet faces stretching…