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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 »

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 »