Return to Goth: Simon Oakes explains Hammer Studio's revival
Hammer Studio chief Simon Oakes talks to The Skinny about the British institution's resurrection

Hammer Studio chief Simon Oakes talks to The Skinny about the British institution's resurrection

Is civilisation doomed? The stakes don't get any higher than in Take One Action Film Festival's opener, Surviving Progress. The Skinny speaks to Harold Crooks, one of the film's directors,...

Guy Maddin's latest film, Keyhole, is a psycho-sexual riff on Homer's The Odyssey by way of film noir and haunted house movies. The Skinny spoke to this most unique of...

Take One Action returns for a fifth year and is a powerful reminder of the part cinema can play in people's fight for freedom and equality across the globe

Three movies under his belt and Rian Johnson is proving a tricky filmmaker to pin down. The Skinny caught up with the genre hopping director to get the lowdown on...

GFT gets naughty with Brando and a stick of butter; Cameo is tearing film fans apart with a screening of a toxic bad movie; Hitch is still thrilling Filmhouse; Orson...

To celebrate the recent brace of movies dealing in deception, here are five great movie impostors to mull over

Bryn Higgins, Christian Cooke and Harry McEntire are the director and two leads of Unconditional, a British psycho-drama that asks, what will one young man do for a chance at...

Peter Strickland speaks to The Skinny about his new feature film, Berberian Sound Studio, and the dark art of movie making

The moving image continues to be conspicuous by its absence from Edinburgh's August arts festivals. But if you make your way to The Royal Dick you'll find Summerhall summer programme...

Not all spy films feature secret lairs, giant lasers and hover-gondolas. Director James Marsh talks to The Skinny about Shadow Dancer, a psychological thriller set against the Troubles in Northern...

David Barras is making waves in the indie filmmaking world, with his Edinburgh-set debut feature Electric Man recently screening at this year's Comic Con. He pays tribute here to one...

From Alien all-nighters to the cinematic poetry of Margaret Tait, these are the film events you should seek out in August

As I sit deep within the Cimmerian sweatbox of Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre 2, the past, present and future of Philippine cinema collide. Manuel Conde and Lou Salvador’s 1950 feature Genghis...

Five suggestions as to how Edinburgh Film Festival could be even stronger in 2013

A roundup of Edinburgh International Film Festival blood splattered Night Moves strand

It's not about the winning, it's the taking part – unless you win that is. Here are the filmmakers who walked away with silverware at this year's Edinburgh International Film...

From a sing-along showing of Grease, to Club Noir's glamorous burlesque-and-classic-films event, to a celebration of unintentionally hilarious found footage, these are the highlights of July's film events across Scotland

The sorry state of American film comedy laid bare

A roundup of the trio of docs in Edinburgh International Film Festival's Focus on Denmark strand, which was one of the highlights of this year's event