Hero Worship: Bette Davis
Sarah Perks, artistic director of Cornerhouse, Manchester, tells us why she’s seduced by Bette Davis, the queen of Hollywood's golden years

Sarah Perks, artistic director of Cornerhouse, Manchester, tells us why she’s seduced by Bette Davis, the queen of Hollywood's golden years

Chris Fujiwara, Edinburgh Film Festival’s artistic director, tells us about this year's two EIFF retrospectives: one celebrates a forgotten master (Jean Grémillon), the other makes the case for auteur status...

You'd think it was the early 90s, such is the ubiquity of The Stone Roses on our screens. Spike Island is one of two cinematic tributes to the Manchester rockers...

The 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with Drake Doremus's intimate family drama Breathe In. The Skinny spoke to the director ahead of his film's European premiere at EIFF

Noah Baumbach speaks to The Skinny about Frances Ha, his latest collaboration with Greta Gerwig, ahead of the film's UK première at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival

Kenji Kamiyama, the writer-director behind Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, talks to The Skinny about his newest film project, the debut title from Glasgow-based distributor Anime Limited

You'll have seen the headlines: 'Lesbian Film Wins Palme d'Or.' But why do only same-sex love stories have their orientation declared?

A screening of Aguirre: Wrath of God in a newly restored print offers the chance enjoy anew Werner Herzog's 1972 classic

The inaugural Dunoon Film Festival is a treasure trove of Scottish cinema gems. Its biggest coup, however, is the first public screening of John Byrne's Your Cheatin' Heart. We spoke...

We speak to director, writer and wannabe stuntman Joss Whedon about his switch from Avengers' billion dollar comic-book franchise to Much Ado About Nothing, the low budget Shakespeare adaptation he...

Does Prom Com wallow in 90s nostalgia? AS IF! It offers some great teen movies and concludes, like all great teen movies do, with a prom. Other June highlights: a...

The brochure for the 67th Edinburgh Film Festival is hot off the presses and Chris Fujiwara and his team's selection has proved as eclectic and exciting as last year's programme....

This month The Grosvnor goes potty for Potter; it's mods v rockers at GFT; the Cameo have a season of MGM classics; and the UK Green Festival brings films with...

The lights go down on another successful Southside Film Festival. Here are our highlights...

Neil Jordan returns to the vampire sub-genre with Byzantium, an adult fairy tale starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. We spoke to the Irishman at Glasgow Film Festival, where Byzantium...

Just in time for Cannes kicking off, Glasgow's south side gets its own celebration of cinema as the Southside Film Festival returns for its third year. Here's what's on offer...

This month Park Circus release two forgotten films of the American new wave, Jerry Schatzberg's Scarecrow and Bob Rafelson's The King of Marvin Gardens. We look at both and suggest...

Olivier Assayas talks to The Skinny about his new feature Something in the Air (Après Mai), the frustration of politics and his journey into cinema

Frank Henenlotter talks about exploitation cinema, censors and his films Basket Case, Brain Damage and Frankenhooker

Take One Action Film Festival director Simon Bateson remembers his first encounters with the work of English-Scottish double act, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty