Film School

Today I was at the Cameo cinema in Edinburgh to take part in an event organised by Film…

Glasgow Film Festival Review

The fifth Glasgow Film Festival drew to a close tonight with the UK premiere of Last…

Vampires: so cool, they're hot

Anyone else noticed this? Vampires are absolutely everywhere. Clearly they are very hip, very now - on tv, in…

Silence Is Golden

“A good visual gag stays with you forever,” Paul Merton claims. “You can watch a Marx Brothers film from the…

Top Ten Controversial Films

With Lars Von Trier's Anti Christ hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Future Movies looks at…

Foetus Madness

Watching the trailer for Juno you could be forgiven for thinking its eponymous heroine, a 16-year-old…

Did you hear the one about the Jew, the Arab and the African American?

There is much to enjoy in Taylor Hackford’s Ray, a biopic of the late, great Ray Charles. There’s an…

When The Lunatics Took Over The Asylum

The 1970s was the decade that changed Hollywood forever. With the abundant excess of the sixties a distant…

Baffled by Bollywood? Worried by WuXia? Alienated by anime? Part 1

Fear not, for armed with Future Movies trusty Bluffer's Guide to the new Asian cinema, you'll know your…

Everything You Needed To Know About Making Movies...But Didn’t Know Who The Hell To Ask

Attempting to break into the movie business is a little like having sex for the first time. You know you want to do it,…

Richard Linklater Q&A

Richard Linklater, Orson Welles and William Shakespeare: not three names that usually come up in conversation together.…

Martin Freeman: Child's Play

Nativity! is a new comedy from the mind of Debbie Isitt, made using a similar improvisational style, and some of the…

The Force Is Strong In This One

Director Dave Filoni has become a key creative member of the Star Wars universe in the past year. First he directed…

Silent Bob Speaks!

Less than five minutes into our interview, film director Kevin Smith tells me about the first time he had sex with his…

Funny People?

Comedians love cinema. For most stand-ups, films offer a welcome distraction on the road, they inspire material and…

Dust Devil

Wunderkind director Richard Stanley on Hardware, Dust Devil, Vacation, and lots of other…

A New Kind Of Wide Boy

Ardal O'Hanlon discusses making Wide Open…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sheen on playing David Frost in Frost/Nixon

Michael Sheen who plays famed television presenter and interviewer David Frost in Frost/Nixon, a role he played in the…

David Wain on Role Models

When director David Wain had a chance to team up again with actor-comedian Paul Rudd on a new project, he did not…

Raising The Stakes For The Vampire Film

Tomas Alfredson, director of Let The Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), explains ruefully how he nearly missed…

Understanding Adam

Adam is the breakout feature film from director Max Mayer, who has directed more than 50 new plays Off-Broadway and…

The Filmmakers of Shrek

“Our thriving goal for Shrek The Third was to tell a story as good as the first – and to make it even funnier,”…

This is England

Shane Meadows has always classed himself as a regional filmmaker. Even before his 1997 feature debut, Twentyfour Seven,…

Yes Woman

I started writing YES in the days following the attacks of September 11th 2001 in New York City. I felt an urgent need…

Super Size Me

It’s every vegan’s nightmare. The person you love bingeing on hamburgers three times daily. They’re depressed, gain…

Q & A with M. Night Shyamalan

Colin Kennedy, editor Empire Magazine chats to M. Night Shyamalan, the writer, producer and director of The Village…

Orson Welles: A potted history

Orson Welles was born on 6th May 1915 in Wisconsin, far smaller than the 6’1” overweight man he would become. His…

Jacques Tati: Serious Playtime

French filmmaker Jacques Tati quietly booked his place amongst the pantheon of film comedy’s legendary figures with a…

David Storr

25-year-old David Storr is the 2002 winner of the Nike Young Directors' Award. His three-minute film "Every Night I Go…