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Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of events from the Scottish cultural calendar to provide you with this guide to the most exciting goings on i... Read more »

The Love Witch (★★★★★) Nowadays, the word “auteur” is used very much interchangeably with “director” and often means one with a reco... Read more »

Pelican Blood, Karl Golden’s follow up to the ultra-low-budget but critically acclaimed The Honeymooners, is the tale of a young, self-harming, bird-wa... Read more »

I made it to Edinburgh for the Film Festival this week and watched six films in just over 24hrs. I haven't managed this kind of rate since the Schwarzenegger... Read more »

This year's EIFF Night Moves strand, aimed at that hardy festival mob who like their celluloid blood soaked, creepy or just a bit strange, offered an ec... Read more »

Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »

For the last decade or so, 27-year-old American actor Brady Corbet has carved out a career as a character actor for some of the greatest auteurs (Haneke, Von... Read more »

Two great coming-of-age films from the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival that embrace their outsiders as sympathetic and complicated human beings: T... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival returns for its 70th year in June, and as has become tradition, it’ll be serving up an amuse bouche of alfresco s... Read more »

Donkeyote  Donkeyote, Spanish director Chico Pereira's feature made with the Scottish Documentary Institute, centres on an eccentric septuage... Read more »

Bizarre doesn’t begin to cover Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari’s collection of wild and weird vignettes, filmed on location with the Mari peop... Read more »

Recounting the life of the revered American chess master famed for his strange behaviour and seemingly unmatched ability, Bobby Fischer Against the World cen... Read more »

Among things a young woman never wants to hear from a septuagenarian male acquaintance, “You can come over and use our pool any time” ranks highl... Read more »

The films that will compete for the annual Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-29 Jun) were announced today. The competition, n... Read more »

Holy eye-popping cinema, Batman! Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced the major retrospectives for its 70th edition Those planning to attend ... Read more »

What is it like to be a superhero in the real world? Not the real New York of Spiderman, not the real world of Dave Lizewski in Mathew Vaughn’s Kick As... Read more »

The new Outpost film, by Scottish director Kieran Parker, is set during World War II, eschewing the flashbacks of its predecessors, except in a short framing... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed its 69th edition will open with the world premiere of The Legend of Barney Thomson, the directorial debut ... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival has plenty to look back on – it is the longest continually running film festival in the world, after all. To mark... Read more »

True Blood is the latest smash hit from HBO and the Edinburgh International Film Festival audience was lucky enough to enjoy the first two episodes of this s... Read more »

In the last few years a smattering of films have come out of the US that some have lumped together and called Mumblecore. Defined by their extremely low bud... Read more »

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 ... Read more »

Splicing old home movies with new footage shot at her parents’ house in Nantes, My Red Shoes sees Iranian-born filmmaker Sara Rastegar examine her own ... Read more »

We already know that the 70th Edinburgh Film Festival will be bookended by new Scottish work. Opening night sees the world premiere of Jason Connery’s ... Read more »

"Everyone has been incredibly honest. That’s the key, not just to documentary, but to any kind of filmmaking." So emerged Maja Borg’s film of fu... Read more »

There are six days to go until Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off its 70th edition with the Peter Mullan-starring Tommy’s Honour and the f... Read more »

The Shutdown is a new short film written and narrated by Scottish author Alan Bissett, known for his novels and plays that have recently been successful acro... Read more »

It's been a real mixed bag at EIFF this year. Top of my list so far has been Iranian film The Hunter. Directed by and starring Rafi Pitts it's a sombre look ... Read more »

In the 1970s, the city of Mérida, in the Mexican peninsula state Yucatán, delivered a series of compact gladiators who conquered the world of b... Read more »

Writer-director Ingo Haeb observes his film's eponymous character in much the same way as she views the world and the people around her: distant, chilly, alm... Read more »