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Romantic comedies are hard to pull off. Don't believe us? Just look at what Nora Ephron, the modern master of the romcom, had to say about them in 2009. "The... Read more »

Edinburgh may brand itself as The Festival City, but we're not sure anyone has told Edinburgh Council. FLY Open Air, the popular dance music festival that ha... Read more »

1. Film Feels: Obsession Obsession and the movies go hand-in-hand. After all, if you blow beautiful, charismatic people up to the size of a double-decker bu... Read more »

The 73rd Edinburgh International Film Festival is nearing its end, and that means awards time. This year's big prize, named after legendary filmmaker Michael... Read more »

Carl Douglas once remarked that 'Everybody was Kung Fu fighting', and it looks like that might actually be the case at Summerhall this September, as the Edin... Read more »

Global change festival Take One Action is back in September and it's got two great-looking films lined up to bookend proceedings. The festival kicks off on 1... Read more »

Readers of The Skinny may already know that Edinburgh wordsmiths and cross-arts impresarios Neu! Reekie! are heading to Leith Theatre on Friday 18 October to... Read more »

On a small private island in the lagoon of the world’s most beautiful city, the world’s most in-demand young actor, Timothée Cha... Read more »

It’s taken a while, but the MCU has finally given the coolest member of the Avengers – Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff aka Black Wido... Read more »

The best double acts require discord. From Laurel and Hardy getting into another fine mess to Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s duelling Michael Caine impr... Read more »

Record Store Day, the annual shindig championing independent record shops, returns on Saturday 18 April for its 13th year. As well as celebrating all th... Read more »

"Congratulations to those men." That was the withering reaction to this year’s Best Director category by Issa Rae, who was co-presenting this morning&... Read more »

Is Glasgow Film Festival trying to tell us something with this year’s retrospective programme? The strand’s title – Are We There Yet? A Ret... Read more »

Onward is set in an alternate universe populated by elves, pixies and sundry chimaera, which was once magical but has turned rather humdrum. Unicorns used to... Read more »

They may be separated by 5000 miles, but Georgian-born Swedish director Levan Akin reckons his home nation and Scotland aren’t too different. “I'... Read more »

Before I saw my first film from the silent era (FW Murnau’s Faust, if I recall correctly), I had a very fixed idea in my head of what a silent movie lo... Read more »

South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus is propping up the May Fair bar and sipping on a well-deserved lager after a day of press at the London Film Festival... Read more »

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 »

In the films of mercurial French filmmaker François Ozon, a trip to the beach is always eventful. Sometimes it’s a place of discovery or serenit... Read more »

Mirror or window? That’s a question that’s often asked about the nature of cinema. Do the movies reflect the best and worst of society back at us... Read more »

When Ben Sharrock was writing the script for Limbo, his openhearted new comedy-drama, he thought he’d struck upon a suitably ridiculous scenario with w... Read more »

When I last interviewed Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar, in 2011, I asked if he thought comic book movies were running out of steam. After all, that y... Read more »

Oh, how we’ve missed the electricity and communal thrill of live performance. After over a year of empty stages, we’re tremendously excited to se... Read more »

One of the joys of an Edinburgh summer (a typical one anyway) is escaping the hubbub of the Fringe to venture into the city’s many great galleries to s... Read more »

The COVID-19 pandemic has been tragic and awful and a right pain in the arse. But there is one silver lining for Edinburgh film fans: the Edinburgh Internati... Read more »

Our Ladies' opening image evokes the legend of The Five Sisters of Kintail, the rather misogynistic Scottish folk yarn about five virtuous young women who we... Read more »

We at The Skinny are very excited to discover what shape Edinburgh International Film Festival will take this year. After the cancellation of the 2020 event ... Read more »

This beautifully crafted and gently experimental sports documentary tells how a lowly Osaka textile factory’s volleyball team became an unstoppable for... Read more »

Any Edinburgh music fan who was looking enviously west in November 2019 when the new Glasgow multi-venue festival The Great Western made its debut can now re... Read more »

This fantastic, sometimes deliriously strange Australian comedy centres on Ray (Wilson), a low-energy 20-something who makes a living as a wedding videograph... Read more »