Search: Starring Stephen McCole

This is – apologies for the politics – an essentially Panglossian, Whiggish sort of film.

There are things that ring very true in Connect - the way in which a family, particularly father and son, don't talk.

Much of the plot reads as a barely tempered collection of cliches, but in the hands of writer/director Justin Molotnikov, and McCole's runaway success, becomes a highly effective character study and a well-constructed psychological thriller.

Heldman’s sharpest instinct is to show how a society polices intimacy by pretending it cannot see it.

The risk for a film that focuses on film is that it'll reference something that does what it's trying to do better.

Robert Carlyle's directorial debut adapts Douglas Lindsay's novel detailing the life and crimes of Barney Thomson with real panache and wit.

A thoroughly thrilling and unpretentious little flick that takes its genre by the scruff of the neck and drags it kicking and screaming through Scotland's menacing undergrowth.

This is Catholic working class life beyond the limits of restraint where the concept of social order collapses and acts of individual kindness come as a surprise.

What gives this film an edge over conventional rites-of-passage movies is its oddity.

A brief trip into shortbread-tin Scotland.

Overall, I am not highly impressed.