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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 »

A highlight among the crumbs of last year’s lockdown-plagued cultural calendar was Hidden Door, which returned to live events with a splendid five-day ... Read more »

Fans of films of diminutive runtimes should rejoice, because Glasgow Short Film Festival is back, in-person, from 23 to 27 March with another programme showc... Read more »

Maryam Hamidi on Bahar Film and TV were Maryam Hamidi’s first loves. “Escapism was crucial for our mental health as an immigrant family,&... Read more »

“When the legend becomes fact,” so the old adage goes, “print the legend.” That’s largely what happened to the Scottish explore... Read more »

Jono McLeod's wildly entertaining documentary My Old School has the feeling of an uproarious class reunion. Three decades have passed since Bearsde... Read more »

Comedy fans should look northeast next month! The Aberdeen International Comedy Festival returns with a splendid selection of standups, from rising talent on... Read more »

During his brief career as a child actor, Owen Kline delivered one of modern cinema's great opening lines. It was in 2006's The Squid and the Whale, whe... Read more »

It doesn’t take long to spot you’re watching a Bryan M Ferguson joint. Whether it’s one of his gnarly dramas featuring satanic rituals and ... Read more »

Triangle of Sadness, the caustic new comedy from Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, sees a motley crew of uber-wealthy people get put through the wringer ... Read more »

No one will miss Scotland’s self-appointed Centre for the Moving Image, the charity that fell into administration on 6 October. But anyone who cares ev... Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival and music go hand in hand. Some of our favourite events at the festival over the years have been when GFF  intersects with live mu... Read more »

The CineSkinny Film Club is back! Our film screening series returns in collaboration with MUBI, and we have a whole host of free screenings planned throughou... Read more »

Every once in a while a film comes along that seems mainlined into the zeitgeist. How to Blow Up a Pipeline, the blistering new work from director Daniel Gol... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival may be one of the oldest film festivals in the world but recent events have proved it’s far from monolithic, and ... Read more »

We've just published the 2023 edition of The Skinny Guide to Glasgow, so we've updated this guide to the Merchant City and Trongate. For more from our 2023 g... Read more »

Prepare for whiplash in the basketball drama The First Slam Dunk, and not just from the hyperkinetic editing of the action on court. There’s a rather j... Read more »

Saltburn very much resembles its cast of colourful characters: it’s sexy, it's funny and it doesn’t have a single original idea in its prett... Read more »

The late Bill Douglas has a good claim to being Scotland’s best-ever filmmaker but there’s still a feeling that his small body of work is underse... Read more »

You’ve had a couple of weeks to pore over the Glasgow Film Festival cinema lineup, but today they announce more treats: the Industry Focus and the tant... Read more »

This interview was first published in early 2023, at a time when Out of Darkness was screening under the title The Origin. The Highlands has ... Read more »

If ever there were to be a biopic on Tony Curran’s life, it might begin, “As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be an actor.” Ac... Read more »

IberoDocs, the festival dedicated to documentaries from Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American filmmakers, began on 21 February and will continue until 2 Mar... Read more »

Sometimes it feels like there's only one vision of Scotland in our collective imagination. You know the one: the tartan-clad fantasy of Braveheart and Brigad... Read more »

If you go down to Glasgow Short Film Festival this month, you're sure of a big surprise. Nestled in late-night slots you’ll find Følkløri... Read more »