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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 »

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 »