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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 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 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 »

If you’re a UK-based film fan, there are few things quite as exciting as leafing through a hot-off-the-presses Edinburgh International Film Festival br... Read more »

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor will attend a gala screening of his directorial debut, American Pastoral, in Edinburgh presented by Edinburgh International Film... Read more »

If a picture paints a thousand words, Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, consisting of 232,500 frames, would work out to be nearly ten times as substantial... Read more »

Change is scary. It’s so much easier to hang on to the ‘if it ain’t broke’ idioms, to play it safe. Obviously nobody told the astound... Read more »

This July, Scotland’s capital will provide the setting for a number of glamorous fashion events, including runway shows, gala parties, exhibitions and ... Read more »

Returning for its fourth installment, the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival (EIFF) is back. Although growing constantly, the Scottish creative scene c... Read more »

It's roughly the mid-point of the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival. I’m sitting in the Filmhouse bar, the festival's main hub, and I feel env... Read more »

Three years ago, The Skinny ran a cover story celebrating “a new dawn” of Scottish cinema. Looking back with 20-20 hindsight, perhaps that was to... Read more »

Trainspotting and 28 Weeks Later star Robert Carlyle discusses his directorial debut, the Glasgow-set black comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson. Carlyle sta... Read more »

We talk to Asif Kapadia, director of Amy, the new documentary on the life and times of Amy Winehouse in this video shot at the Edinburgh Internatio... Read more »

As ever, opening the new fresh-from-the-printers EIFF programme offers up a world of cinematic delights. Choosing what to see, however, can be a bit of a luc... Read more »

Whatever your excuse for moving back in with your parents (“the credit crunch”, seems to cut it for just about anything anyway), there’s st... Read more »