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Listen to The Cineskinny podcast!
The Cineskinny is the film podcast from some of the team behind The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies.... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2018: 10 films to see
Old Boys Dir. Toby MacDonald Alex Lawther is a comic dynamo. He’s been a deadpan psychopath in The End of the F***ing World and stole every sc... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Cooking With Gas: Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet
While watching Flux Gourmet, the latest film from Peter Strickland, British cinema's premier chronicler of kink, fetish and general weirdness, I’ve a f... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 21-28 Jun: Edinburgh International Film Festival
Opening last night with the international premiere of Marc Turtletaub's latest film Puzzle (pictured), Edinburgh International Film Festival continues until ... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Rip It Up: Building a better screen sector
The shocking and seemingly sudden collapse of an institution as established as the Centre for the Moving Image, and cherished cinema spaces and platforms lik... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Why Pauline Kael still matters
On 14 August 1980, former New Yorker critic Renata Adler savaged the career and work of Pauline Kael in an admittedly eloquent but brutal takedown. Adler was... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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The best film events in Scotland in June
1. EIFF The world’s longest continually running film festival returns and there’s clearly still juice in the old girl yet. The highlights look... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Welcome to Scottish zombie musical Anna and the Apocalypse
How’s this for an eye-catching logline? “A zombie apocalypse musical set in a Scottish high school… oh, and it’s also a Christmas mo... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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The Best Film Events in Scotland in June
1. Edinburgh International Film Festival The Dead Don't Die EIFF returns this month for the 73rd edition, and with it the usual mix of new films from home ... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Stream Spirit: Scotland's Virtual Film Festivals
Many industries have taken a hit during the coronavirus pandemic, but among the worst-affected must surely be red carpet manufacturers. Not a foot of the stu... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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What's Up Doc? Scotland's lively documentary scene
For a small nation with an increasingly distinct cultural space within the British film industry, Scotland has had peaks and troughs of production. But in te... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Music
Coronavirus: event cancellations and venue closures
This rolling page will keep you up to date with events and gigs cancelled or moved in response to the pandemic, as well as venue closures. As the COVID-19 p... Read more »| Updated about 4 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Outrage
Harvey Milk (who, as the final scene of this documentary confirms, has truly earned his place as the gay Martin Luther King) famously prayed that any bullet ... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Birdwatchers
Cowboys and Indians are two of the oldest film archetypes. As we all know, however, Hollywood's tendency to portray one as "good" and "the other" (appropriat... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: Unconditional
On a Newcastle council estate, 17-year-old twins Owen (McEntire) and Kristen (Clark) are full-time carers for their infirm mother. With a lack of money and s... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Svengali
One of Svengali’s running jokes is that protagonist Dixie – a postman from rural Wales who ups-sticks for London hoping to nurture a distinctly u... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Honeymoon
Brits Harry Treadaway and Game of Throne's Rose Leslie are fresh-faced American newlyweds Paul and Bea in Leigh Janiak’s entertaining if problemat... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Jalainur
Jalainur is a surreal vision of reality caught between past and future, foreshadowing the nostalgia that will set in when Old China disappears in the turbule... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Giallo
Dario Argento's latest film, Giallo, sees the director return to his roots. It is reminiscent of his works during the seventies, such as Suspiria, but lacks... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Spread
The Hollywood debut of EIFF alumnus David Mackenzie, Spread is a surprisingly entertaining parable about a vacuous but louche LA hustler. The supremely cynic... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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EIFF 2011: Ghosted
Prison drama Ghosted sees sinister head-honcho jailbird Clay (Craig Parkinson) and quiet, just-want-to-do-my-time-guv con Jack (John Lynch) vie for t... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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EIFF 2012: Girimunho
Girimunho opens out of the gloom and into light. Our indefatigable octogenarian protagonist, Bastú, goes on a similar journey. The film begins with B... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: uwantme2killhim?
The internet is a dangerously empowering tool in this true story, which has been knit into a taut thriller by British director Andrew Douglas. Set in 2003, u... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2013: Natan
When a person is murdered and the body burned, all that is left is a name and a sum total of everything said about them; distort the shape of their life's ou... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Joe
With Joe, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche) returns to his roots, examining the grim reality of society’s underclass wi... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Violet
Violet opens with a silent act of violence, the murder of a teenage boy in an empty shopping mall, wordlessly captured from multiple angles on CCTV. After wi... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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EIFF 2015: Hellions
Hellions is like chewing gum: it begins promisingly enough, with a genuine sense of foreboding and serviceable performances from the lead (Chloe Rose as teen... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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EIFF 2009: Humpday
In a bid to take bromance to the next level, Lynn Shelton, from the Mumblecore movement, brings us Humpday an awkward yet hilarious sex comedy about two budd... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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Mirrorball @ EIFF 08
Photographs- Blair McNeil and David Lemm Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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EIFF 2014: Hellion
Hellion is a low-key family drama that explores grief and responsibility. Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Hollis, a boozy single parent who&r... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago