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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 »

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 »

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 »

"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 »

Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed that the film opening the 71st edition will be God’s Own Country, the first feature from British fil... Read more »

Pixar and EIFF have long been simpatico. Classics from the much-loved studio, such as WALL-E, Toy Story 3 and Inside Out have all made a splas... Read more »

When God's Own Country, the first film from actor-turned-director Francis Lee, premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, it was quickly labele... Read more »

I’ve been talking about this film almost non-stop since seeing it and have become pretty adept at the one line sum up: a fairly nerdy guy is in a motel... Read more »

Walter Hill is speaking to The Skinny from a cupboard in his LA home. “My wife’s given me this little broom closet to do my work in. Only a direc... Read more »

Even before the dust had settled on last year’s disappointing Edinburgh International Film Festival, critics of all stripes were weighing in to examine... Read more »

Arctic Monkeys make an appearance in Shane Meadows’ new movie, Le Donk, which is set to be premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival later... Read more »

Some early news of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival programme was announced today, with the main 2015 retrospective – Little Big... Read more »

Once again Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is teaming up with Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) to celebrate an iconic film with a knocko... Read more »

On a warm Edinburgh evening at Fountain Park Cinema, an unassuming black car pulls up to the front doors; from the back seat emerges the face that launched a... Read more »

Sixteenth century Chinese novel Journey to the West has been adapted dozens of times in dozens of ways, from cult Japanese television show Monkey to Damon Al... Read more »

Flashy. Fake. Distant. Three things we, as young reporters and fresh eyes on the world premiere of The Edge of Love starring Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller an... Read more »