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ArtSummerhall to host Edinburgh Fringe programme in 2025
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 »| Updated over 1 year ago -
ComedyGlasgow International Comedy Festival returns with its biggest lineup ever
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 »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmJulian Glander on Boys Go to Jupiter
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 »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmScotland on Screen: Ruaridh Mollica on Sebastian
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 »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: May 2025
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 »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FestivalsSummerhall Arts reveals 2025 Fringe programme
After a turbulent year of uncertainty around its future, Summerhall – one of Edinburgh and the Fringe’s most important venues – will begin ... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmWay of the Sword: John Maclean on Tornado
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 »| Updated 12 months ago -
Food And Drink'The platonic ideal of a pub': The Old Toll Bar, Glasgow
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 »| Updated 11 months ago -
FilmKVIFF 2025: Out of Love
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 »| Updated 11 months ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Film Festival reveals 2025 programme
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 »| Updated 11 months ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: August 2025
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 »| Updated 10 months ago -
FestivalsTake One Action reveals 2025 programme
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 »| Updated 10 months ago -
FilmQueer Me Out: new queer cinema at Edinburgh Film Festival
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 »| Updated 10 months ago -
FilmThe Golden Spurtle
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 »| Updated 9 months ago -
FestivalsBuilding Bridges: IberoDocs 2025 preview
IberoDocs is about to deliver its 11th and biggest edition. While the raison d'être of the festival might seem quite obvious – as its title sugge... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
FestivalsScottish Queer International Film Festival returns for 2025
Film festivals grow up so fast. It seems like only yesterday that Scottish Queer International Film Festival were the cool new kids on the block. Now that th... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
FestivalsYoung Team: Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025 preview
Every summer, the GFT mentors a group of 15 to 18-year-old Glasgow students in the ways of film curation and festival coordination. And then, at the end of t... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival reveals first films for 2026
Winter is slowly but surely approaching, and with those cold, dark months drawing in, we’re already getting excited for the promise of some great films... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
TheatreManipulate Festival reveals 2026 programme
Next year’s edition of Manipulate, we’re told, will see the animation, puppetry and visual theatre festival deliver one of its most ambitious pro... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
FilmFrench Film Festival UK 2025: Top Five Picks
This year’s French Film Festival UK lineup is sparkling. Richard Linklater, Hafsia Herzi, Cédric Klapisch, Julia Ducornau, and Rebecca Zlot... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
FilmJames McAvoy's California Schemin' to close Glasgow Film Festival
The 22nd Glasgow Film Festival will run from 25 February to 8 March, and today the festival has revealed the film its team has chosen to close proceedings: J... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
FilmHippFest reveals its 2026 programme
Is it just me, or is silent cinema suddenly en vogue? Over the summer of 2025, the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin was celebrated ... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival reveals Scottish Competition films for 2026
In the February issue of The Skinny, you can read an interview with Glasgow Film's new Head of Programme Paul Gallagher, where he celebrates the breadth of f... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival announces guests for 2026
It was only last year that James McAvoy attended Glasgow Film Festival and received the festival’s Cinema City Award. It’s been confirmed today t... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival: James Ley on Sleazy Tiger
Scottish cinema hasn’t yet produced a great queer feature film. We don’t have our own My Beautiful Laundrette, My Summer of Love or Weekend. When... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
FilmScottish Film Events: February 2026
Scotland’s biggest film celebration, Glasgow Film Festival, kicks off on 25 February with Felipe Bustos Sierra's Everybody to Kenmure Street.... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
ArtECA Degree Show at risk amid staff and student boycotts
Last month, teaching staff at the University of Edinburgh who are part of the University and College Union (UCU) announced they would begin a Marking and Ass... Read more »| Updated 16 days ago -
FilmThe best film events in Scotland in November
1) French Film Festival Lover for a Day It looks to have been a pretty good year in cinema for our neighbours across the channel, as evidenced by the ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmThe best film events in Scotland in January
1. Paul Thomas Anderson on 35mm Inherent Vice You’ve got a whole month still to go until the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s fantastic new fi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmGreta Gerwig speaks out against Woody Allen: ‘I will not work for him again’
The weekend’s Golden Globe awards was a bittersweet affair. It was thrilling to see this most superficial of awards ceremonies – where the red ca... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago