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Velvet Buzzsaw is a late night horror. A piece of Grand Guignol trash. Pure and simple. And what glorious trash it is.

Le Mepris...is as compromising as an American backed French New Wave film would get – but the cards were never out of Godard's rebellious, crafty hands.

I really didn't know anything about Chris Burden before I sat down to this documentary about him. To be completely honest, as the lights went down and the film began, I struggled to remember what I was about to see. I'd even forgotten that…

When his grandfather passes away, young Jake Jardine (Theo Taplitz) has to move with his parents (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle) into the apartment that they have inherited. That apartment is above a shop, being rented by a woman (Paulina…

There is a Canadian television series which began in 2001 called How It’s Made, in each episode of which we follow the manufacturing process, step by detailed step, of hundreds of disparate every-day items. The processes involved are almost…

Ai Weiwei is one of the most controversial artists to come out of China in the past thirty years. His work includes a list of names of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake that was hidden by Chinese authorities and the world famous…

Proving that the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction" still stands, Jes Benstock's kitsch documentary about the history and staging of the Alternative Miss World contest may be the weirdest, most surreal hour and a half you'll ever…

So that's it then. The credits have rolled, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief and cinema staff in Edinburgh can stop being irritated by a swarm of people turning up at free screening after free screening to try and catch "the next big…

Portrait of the artist as a tortured soul? That would be an apt description of Calvet, a documentary that gets you interested from the very beginning and holds your attention throughout while taking a number of unexpected, and at times…

"Never believe you've played your last hand." Dominic Allan is the director of the astonishingly good documentary Calvet (the website is here) and I had the pleasure of meeting him for an interview on a rainy day in Edinburgh that was…