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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Should art be judged? We can ponder the woulda, coulda, shoulda but the key reality is that it will be. Or should that be has been, as the perennial awards ... Read more »

35 Shots of Rum by French filmmaker Claire Denis (Beau Travail, Vendredi Soir) is a simple story of human relationships explored through the father and daugh... Read more »

Part Buffy, a little Ghostbusters, a dash of Harry Potter, and all Hong Kong midnight-movie weirdness, Yan Pak-wing and Chiu Sin-hang’s Vampire Cleanup... Read more »

The Glasgow Youth Film Festival has revealed details of its new-look programme for 2015, including a fantasy-themed pop-up cinema at the Barras and a clutch ... Read more »

The Grassmarket may usually be a hodgepodge of watering holes that punctuate the day for Fringe loving punters and the nights for rowdy women in pink cowboy ... Read more »

Tue 21 Jun: SWG3, Transmission deadline  Late tonight in SWG3, there is an event to go with the current exhibition, Difficult Mothers by Sarah Rose. Ha... Read more »

45 Years Andrew Haigh's last film, Weekend, was a deeply felt story of a fledgling gay romance. In this one, a hit at the Berlinale, he's e... Read more »

After its successful launch last year, Manchester Animation Festival will return to HOME in Manchester for three days of the best animation from the UK and b... Read more »

This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival awards winners were announced today. The internationally-known EIFF is seen as one of the most forward-thin... Read more »

Glasgow Film Theatre’s young team are back in the driving seat for the ninth edition of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival, the annual event that sees a g... Read more »

This year’s EIFF is all about the weird and wonderful world of low budget cinema and no one sums this up better than Roger Corman, the king of B movies... Read more »

Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK’s premier celebration of documentary filmmaking, has revealed its line-up for this year’s festival. Proceedings kick ... Read more »

A final blog from this year's EIFF and in the last few days of the festival I managed to cram in several of the most talked about films. Everyone was curiou... Read more »

England is Mine, the unofficial Morrissey biopic which closed this year's Edinburgh Film Festival on Sunday, has come in for some criticism from the singer's... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off this week, and it’s doing so in fine style with Francis Lee’s deeply affecting love story God&rsq... Read more »

The Opening Gala The 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with the highly anticipated animation The Illusionist.  The film was conceived wh... Read more »

One of the abiding final shots in cinema is the crumbling face of Song Kang-ho in the epilogue of Memories of Murder, his impotent, accusatory stare thr... Read more »

I don’t really do hero worship. Working on film festivals firms up your belief in collaboration and team work; it reminds you that no one person is eve... Read more »