Clarke among the Apes.

Impressive cast, great music, vintage clothes – can the Coens do no wrong? Oh… there’s JT.

With the Glasgow Film Festival commencing its 9th year, we sent along two of our Highland based contributors to bring you their verdict on the line-up. Patrick Harley, determined to see an obscene amount of films over a short period of time, will be using what seconds he has spare to provide round-ups as the festival proceeds. Meanwhile when the festival ends, the fun continues, with Steven Neish on hand to select his Best of the Fest – unmissable gems you’ll be rushing to see when they come to a cinema near you. Here’s what happened on Patrick’s first day…

Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and the Wachowski siblings team up to adapt David Mitchell’s sprawling 2004 Novel About Everything into a film that’s crying out loudly to be called ‘epic’, and I feel I must oblige. It’s a sprawling transgenred character-filled wallop of a movie that will probably delight and infuriate in equal measure.

He wowed audiences in Django Unchained, is currently back in cinemas as Romeo and will shortly be debuting as Gatsby – is there anything Leonardo DiCaprio can’t do? Twenty years on from his first Oscar nomination, we take a look at Leonardo DiCaprio’s extraordinary career.

Get ready for comic heaven! We’re giving away two Early Entry Weekend Passes to this weekend’s London Super Comic Convention (Stan Lee might be there, you never know).

Future Cinema, the geniuses behind Secret Cinema, present a night at Rick’s Café Américain in the vivid world of 1940s Casablanca. The night was a spectacular success, gloating a swingin’ band, glamorous singers and, of course, piano-playing Sam and chess-playing Rick. Future Cinema successfully managed to fuse cinema and theatre in one astounding re-enactment of the one of the greatest films of all time. Gentlemen, pop your collars. Ladies, fans at the ready, as Rick welcomes you into the most famous and exclusive nightclub in all of Casablanca.

Abandons Spielberg in favour of Abrams. Oooo scandal.

Williams presumes he’ll be banging out the belters again. We hope not.

But who? WHO? Read and find out, dear ones.