Viggo Mortensen plays identical twin brothers in Ana Piterbarg’s opaque thriller. Viggo 1 is an indistinctly unhappy doctor working in Buenos Aires who gets a visit from Viggo 2, a terminally ill, beekeeping petty criminal.

A SHORT list of things that are more amusing than The Hangover Part III: Beverly Hills Cop III, The Hangover Part II and possibly even The Wright Way.

THERE are currently so many vampires flapping around movies that new additions tends to get boxed by age, genre and state of mind.

She has had to put up with the wayward ways of George Clooney and Chris Noth - on screen at least. But fortunately for Julianna Margulies, real life does not imitate art, as Siobhan Synnot discovers

IT SOUNDS like an elaborate plotline from one of its many critically acclaimed films.

He’s learnt to ride, brandish a sword and, for his new film, keep bees – Yet for Viggo Mortensen, it’s all in a day’s work

THE FIRST showing of Brad Pitt’s zombie movie World War Z is to be at a Glasgow cinema - two days before its released anywhere else.

Sir Roger Moore today announced he will make his first stage appearance in Edinburgh later this year, as he took a cheeky pop at fellow James Bond actor Sir Sean Connery.

A MAN masquerading as South Korean rapper Psy, who took the world by storm with the ‘Gangnam Style’ song, has been outed - after two days of partying with various celebrities on the French riviera.

FROM whisky moguls enchanted by the burgeoning era of silent film to modern families eager to see the latest Hollywood blockbusters, it is a vital resource which has long spared cineastes on the Kintyre peninsula an arduous 180 mile round trip for popcorn and thrills.

IN the circumstances, two stars might be considered a minor triumph. The patchy original, released in 2009, made so much money that sequels were inevitable; the real shocker was the $586m the Bangkok-set Part II took, despite being as quantifiably lousy as anything else released in 2011.

STEVEN Soderbergh’s final film, the return of the Coen brothers and a look at how children are portrayed on screen are just some of the reasons critics are celebrating at this year’s 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

The Coen Brothers’ new film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week – far, far ahead of its UK release date of 24 January, 2014.

Alistair Harkness reviews the rest of this week’s film releases

Inspired partly by his own youthful idealism, Oliver Assayas’s new film is a poignant meditation on protest and disillusion

Alistair Harkness welcomes the chance to revisit an indie auteur who was as important as Quentin Tarantino or Richard Linklater

THE sun may have been shining but it was over the Leith boundary as over 500 dancers took part in filming today for upcoming musical Sunshine on Leith outside the National Gallery of Scotland.

THE story of the relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover yesterday dazzled reviewers at the annual Cannes Film Festival.

NATALIE Dormer, one of the stars of TV’s Game of Thrones, is among the jurors for the international feature film prize at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.

DRESSED in an eye-catching black shift dress, Great Gatsby star Carey Mulligan poses for the cameras at the Cannes Film Festival, where she is promoting her new film, the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.