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George MacKay is a nice guy, both IRL and in movies. On-screen, he’s made a career out of playing lovely young men who are deeply traumatised in one wa... Read more »

The world of music and art collide in Glasgow’s ambitious biennial festival Sonica, which returns this autumn (19-29 Sep) for its eighth edition. The a... Read more »

June is Pride Month, so your local cinema screens will be populated by more LGBTQ+ folks than usual. Whether you’re looking for stories about a surly g... Read more »

It's going to be a bit longer than planned before we see the new look Edinburgh International Film Festival programme. The programme launch was original... Read more »

Gear up for a summer like no other as the AIG Women’s Open makes a return to the “Home of Golf” at St Andrews Links. From 21... Read more »

It’s been hard to get a handle on Edinburgh International Film Festival of late. It’s by far the oldest film festival in the UK, but so rocky has... Read more »

Sea Change is back for its third edition, running 20 to 22 September with another programme celebrating female filmmaking, and once again it's taking place o... Read more »

Choosing what to see at Edinburgh International Film Festival is harder than ever this year. Around half the feature films in the programme are world premier... Read more »

It’s not every day that a filmmaker invites you to “see my two Willies”, but that’s the proposition I received from Mark Cousins ahea... Read more »

As we go into the final weekend of the Fringe, everyone is rushing to get their hands on the final tickets for the acts nominated for Best Show and Best Newc... Read more »

Pearl-clutchers, beware. A new film from Coralie Fargeat – the French provocateur whose bolshy aesthetic makes male enfants terribles like Quentin Tara... Read more »

As art forms go, cinema is a pretty good one for depicting inebriation. A little focus pull here, a few elliptical edits and the inevitable fade to black and... Read more »

OK, sickos! This is the festival for you. A celebration of cinema’s 'outcasts, orphans and outliers', Weird Weekend has become a regular fixture on the... Read more »

There’s a new Pedro Almodóvar joint being released at the end of October (The Room Next Door, out 25 Oct) but if you’re looking for more f... Read more »

Received wisdom tells us the Blitz was a galvanising moment in British history, a period of stoicism, of solidarity, of self-sacrifice. But Steve McQueen has... Read more »

Glasgow artist Jasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner Prize. Picking up her award last night at a ceremony at Tate Britain in London, she used her platform to ... Read more »

It feels like all we’ve heard about Summerhall in the past few months has been wall-to-wall bad news, but there’s been some light on the horizon ... Read more »

This March, Glasgow will once again spill over with comedy as the Glasgow International Comedy Festival returns to venues across the city from 12 to 30 March... Read more »

Traditional animation is one of the most labour-intensive forms of filmmaking; a few seconds of action can often take teams of animators days to achieve. But... Read more »

Ruaridh Mollica is only 25, but he’s already a film and TV veteran. Born in Prato, just outside Florence, but raised in Leith, he fell into professiona... Read more »

The Scottish weather continues to be unreliable, but luckily, with three great film festivals coming up, you’ll be spending much of May in a cinema. F... Read more »

After a turbulent year of uncertainty around its future, Summerhall – one of Edinburgh and the Fringe’s most important venues – will begin ... Read more »

The opening text of Tornado informs us that its events take place sometime in 1790s Britain. But don’t be braced for bonnets and corsets: this is not y... Read more »

What makes a pub ‘your local’? The obvious answer is to do with proximity, surely? It’s that place around the corner where everyone knows y... Read more »

There’s a mystery at the heart of Out of Love, the bittersweet new drama from Nathan Ambrosioni: why does someone just walk out on a life? It’s a... Read more »

Navigating the Edinburgh Festivals in August is a bit like solving a complex maths equation where you have to try and balance out the hours in the day and th... Read more »

We preview Edinburgh Film Festival (14-20 Aug) elsewhere in the mag and on this website, but it’s not the only UK festival of note this summer. Bristol... Read more »

Last year, Take One Action announced it would be moving to a new biannual film festival model and today they’ve revealed the programme details for the ... Read more »

Film festivals can act as barometers for assessing the health of indie filmmaking. Read any critic's report on the competitions at Cannes or Berlin and you&r... Read more »

Who would have thought a documentary about porridge, the beigest of foodstuffs, would be so colourful? I’m not just talking about Dimitri Zaunders&rsqu... Read more »