Film For Thought

An interview with director Harry Macqueen and thoughts about his film Hinterland

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a monthly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This month, a torrent of underwhelming efforts are redeemed by a motely crew headed up by a pig and a frog...

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a monthly glimpse into his musings on cinema. In January, as the awards season enters its most interesting speculative period, Adam assesses a few of the front runners and rank outsiders.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, the latest from Scorsese is a supreme meta-cinematic treat which finally finds the perfect project to justify the potential of 3D in cinema.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, how the languages of words and images make an uneasy and disappointing collision at the bottom of The Deep Blue Sea

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, the moral ambiguity of "Snowtown" and the way it relates to classical tragedy's consideration of the individual versus the community.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, Andrea Arnold's drastically reimagined "Wuthering Heights" and a superior foray into the pitfall-abundant area of adapting classic literature on film.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, George Clooney's latest and a political pessimism which is subtly characteristic of much recent filmmaking.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, Lynne Ramsay's latest, a challenging expressionistic take on some profoundly dramatic ideas, and the enduring cinematic relationship between a psychopath and his mother.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, a preview of Ralph Fiennes' "Coriolanus" and the ongoing problem about what film is going to do about the theatrical spectre of Shakespeare.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, a remarkable filmmaking debut from Paddy Considine which single-handedly advances the potential of British cinema, and asserts the superiority of film as the art form best placed to represent our times.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, a well-known example of when Hollywood used to make great films without even trying, and the void that has opened between then and now.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, how "Drive" demonstrates that in film two heads are usually better than one, especially when they belong to the like of Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, Thomas Alfredson's fine Le Carre adaptation, and the cost of specialising in watching others, whether as a spy or a cinephile.

Brainy film buff Adam Hollingworth offers a weekly glimpse into his musings on cinema. This week, Norwegian horror mockumentary "The Troll Hunter," the limits of the "found-footage" sub-genre, and why monsters just aren't that monstrous any more.