Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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FilmWhat She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
As an overview of the career of the contentious film critic, What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a congenial ode to a unique and important cultural voice of the 20th century Read more »| 28 Jun 2019 -
FilmUnderdown
Life below the poverty line in Beirut’s concrete jungle is explored in Sarah Kaskas’ humanistic feature debut Underdown Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
FilmBalance, Not Symmetry
Director Jamie Adams collaborates with Biffy Clyro for Glasgow-set drama Balance, Not Symmetry, an unbearable film marred by clichés and an inconsistent structure Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
FilmThe Grizzlies
A true-life story of how sport unites a group of disenfranchised teens in northern Canada, too often The Grizzlies feels like Hollywood schmaltz Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
FilmNot the End (Sin fin)
Time-travelling romance with a sensitive approach to love and loss Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
FilmVenezia
A woman wanders a grey Venice in this gut-wrenching film about loneliness and loss Read more »| 27 Jun 2019
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FilmThe Vast of Night
Andrew Patterson's The Vast of Night evokes paranoid 50s B-movies but elevates the genre with stylish visuals and vibrant performances Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
FilmScheme Birds
This lyrical documentary follows the life of an 18-year-old navigating the harsh truths of motherhood, relationships and violence in a deprived corner of Motherwell Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival: Read the Student Critics
We're delighted to be hosting the work of this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival student critics – read their EIFF reviews here Read more »| 27 Jun 2019 -
FilmMemory: The Origins of Alien
78/52 director Alexandre O Philippe delves into the world of Ridley Scott's Alien – fanatics will find little new here, but this is an entertaining, informative companion to the 1979 sci-fi Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmFarming
A young Nigerian boy farmed out to a white Tilbury family joins a gang of skinheads as a teenager in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s debut feature, Farming Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmBait
Mark Jenkin emerges as a distinctive new voice in British filmmaking with this innovatively shot and edited melodrama concerned with the class tensions bubbling over between the skint locals and the wealthy holidaymakers in a Cornwall fishing village Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmVarda by Agnès
The final film from French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda is touching, but there's little new to be gleaned from it Read more »| 22 Jun 2019 -
FilmGwen
A gritty performance by Maxine Peake and richly bleak photography by Adam Etherington are more than enough to recommend folk horror Gwen Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
FilmAngus Macfadyen on Robert the Bruce
You wait years for a Robert the Bruce film... and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of Outlaw King, Angus Macfadyen reprises the role he played in Braveheart and tells us why he felt compelled to write an anti-war version of the Bruce legend Read more »| 21 Jun 2019