Ben Wheatley’s latest - which pitches Murphy, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer and Jack Reynor into an hour-long gunfight - struggles under the weight of its own ambitions

Alice Lowe’s new film Prevenge is a dark comedy about a pregnant woman intent on murder. The character is a "superhero", she says, "and pregnancy is her special power”

Festival guests this year include Vanessa Redgrave, Kerry Fox, Anna Friel, Jack Reynor, Cillian Murphy and Aiden Gillen

The two films are the pick of a crop that reveals the breadth of talent in Irish film

Jim Broadbent stars as Santa Claus in this somewhat strange holiday kids movie

The strong showing of 'Blue is the Warmest Colour' suggests erudite Ticket readers just can’t get enough Franco-Tunisian neo-realism, writes Donald Clarke

It was a spectacular year for cinema – but once again, many of 2013’s best offerings made little or no impact on the mainstream. Plus ça change . . .

Having spent his 20s “floating around” Belfastman Michael Smiley was a late-comer to acting. He talks about his role in Ben Wheatley’s radical new English Civil-War film