Search Results

Whoever thought that the end of the world could be so much fun? As apocalypse approaches, the birds fall from the sky, teenage angst is consumed by death, an... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 14-21 Jun: Malcolm Middleton, Insider Festival + EIFF       ... Read more »

It was a collection of fragile souls that gathered at the press screenings on Thursday morning, the first official day of the 64th Edinburgh International Fi... Read more »

The director of The People vs. George Lucas returns with a light-hearted documentary about another pop culture phenomenon, one who may have received even mor... Read more »

A stanch exposé of real-life injustice, When Night Falls dramatises the plight of Wang Jimnei, whose son Yang Jia was convicted of killing seven polic... Read more »

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES MORE MONEY FOR 2014 PRIZESFilm site Screen Daily reports today that the Edinburgh International Film Festival... Read more »

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE OPENING FILM, PRESENT 'HERO HANGOUTS'The opening film for this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival&nb... Read more »

EIFF RESTORE CLASSIC STEREOSCOPIC ANIMATED FILMS BY NORMAN MCLARENThe Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-29 Jun), which will this year celeb... Read more »

Dropping away from suited commuters to enjoy a 9am screening of the blackly comic Gravity carries a curious excitement akin to skiving school. The film deliv... Read more »

In Rick Famuyiwa’s subversive coming-of-age misadventure comedy, three high school “90s hip hop geeks” get mixed up in drug trafficking and... Read more »

Jake Gavin’s debut feature is a standard ‘elderly man sets out in search of forgiveness and redemption’ narrative, but with added British i... Read more »

At this year's Edinburgh Film Festival, Lizzie Borden presented her 1976 debut Regrouping for just its fifth screening; the visionary director was ... Read more »

Charles Henri Belleville’s streamline adaptation of Simon Lewis’ Go, staring Robert Sheehan, is a fast-paced and gripping crime thriller Jet Tra... Read more »

Though pitched as a supernatural thriller, The Messenger dwells more on its protagonist’s own troubled life than the conspiracy he uncovers, but that&r... Read more »

As the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival nears its close, its juries have put their heads together to choose the prize winners from the extensive an... Read more »

Another year, another Edinburgh Film Festival, and another artistic director steps into the breach. Enter Mark Adams, taking the AD baton from Chris Fujiwara... Read more »

In 2000, 19-year-old British-Asian Zahid Mubarek was murdered by Robert Stewart, his cellmate at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution. He was five hours away... Read more »

Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years has won the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Michael Powell Award for Best British Film, with the 2015 Festival aw... Read more »

The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s gleefully grim cannibal tribe exploitation movie, is fun... up to a point While The Green Inferno is unlikely to co... Read more »

The full programme for the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival has been announced ahead of the 2015 festival this June. Among the films in the runnin... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced that its 69th edition will come to a close with the world premiere of Scott Graham’s second feature... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival doesn’t end until Sunday, when the curtain comes down on the event with the much-anticipated Morrissey biopic Eng... Read more »

The Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-29 June) is the highlight of the city's calendar for filmmakers and cinemagoers, with opportunities to attend g... Read more »

The list of films for the annual Best of the Fest screenings to conclude the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival has been revealed, ahead of the Festi... Read more »

The fate of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has been on the minds of film critics, arts journalists and film fans over the last few months a... Read more »

The St John's Church Hall in Edinburgh has been transformed into a Sunderbans jungle for a three-day Bengali film retrospective of classics by Satyajit Ray, ... Read more »

There’s a ghost in the attic in Andrew Haigh’s haunting relationship drama 45 Years, but not the kind that can be vanquished with a séance... Read more »

There’s no such thing as bad publicity, so they say. Tell that to James Mullighan. Since his appointment as director of Edinburgh International F... Read more »

'If Paris, London and Milan can, why not Edinburgh?' We at The Skinny imagine this is how the conversation that will result in the Edinburgh International Fa... Read more »

What a difference twelve months make. This time last year, selecting a film to see at Edinburgh's 65th International Film Festival was a bit like choosing wh... Read more »