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Scottish cinemas get a bit racy this month as a wonderful selection of pre-Code films head to Filmhouse and GFT. For those uninitiated in this debauched peri... Read more »

Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is an intoxicating dive into the otherworldly psyche of David Bowie – or more accurately, his various alter egos.... Read more »

Since 2010, All Night Horror Madness has been delighting Scottish gorehounds with memorable marathon screenings of weird and wonderful horror films. The nigh... Read more »

‘Tis the spooky season, so get set for scary movies of all stripes coming to Scottish cinemas in October. Summerhall will be serving up a series of hor... Read more »

If while watching the films of Bryan M. Ferguson you come to the conclusion, ‘that’s a born director!’, you’d kinda be right. “... Read more »

The film community in Scotland was knocked sideways yesterday by the news that two of the most important and most-loved arts institutions in Edinburgh &ndash... Read more »

We’re not used to cinematic masterpieces emerging from Scotland in successive years but that’s exactly what’s happened. In 2021 we had Limb... Read more »

Leyla Josephine is an artist who’s so multi-hyphenated and so multi-talented that one name isn’t quite enough to cover her practice. Under that t... Read more »

How to Blow Up a Pipeline Dir. Daniel Goldhaber A ragtag of fresh-faced environmental activists (including Lukas Gage and Sasha Lane) take to Texas with a ... Read more »

HippFest (aka The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival), Scotland’s festival dedicated to silent film, is back for its 13th edition with a packed lineup com... Read more »

We have a lot of amazing film festivals in Scotland. Just this month there’s the Glasgow Film Festival, the Glasgow Short Film Festival and the Hippodr... Read more »

“Where do we go from here?” This is surely a question that comes to mind daily for anyone with an eye on the arts in Scotland, which seems to be... Read more »

Simone Smith’s The Möbius Trip is the gnarliest Scottish film of the year – although that title could easily be applied to previous films fr... Read more »

Ira Sachs has long been one of the most exciting voices on the American indie scene but he hasn’t quite broken through to a wide audience. Passages mig... Read more »

It’s been a dark year for Scottish cinemas since the brutal closures of Edinburgh Filmhouse and its sister venue, the Belmont in Aberdeen, but today th... Read more »

The Sleeping Beast (Dir. Jaak Kilmi) The imagination of youth blends with the harsh reality of adulthood in this evocative coming-of-age film from Estonia.... Read more »

The autumn film festival calendar is an embarrassment of riches this month with at least half a dozen great festivals taking place. There’s the final w... Read more »

I’m in bed with the director of In Bed with Victoria. Well, virtually. French filmmaker Justine Triet is in a hotel room lying flat, her head propped u... Read more »

HippFest (or The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival to give it its full title) returns to its stunning home at the Hippodrome cinema in Bo’ness from ... Read more »

Andrew Cumming’s gnarly survivalist horror Out of Darkness makes great use of its Highland setting. Set in the Paleolithic age, it follows a band ... Read more »

One of the most imaginatively curated festivals on Scotland's festival calendar is the Glasgow Short Film Festival, and this year’s programme looks to ... Read more »

Cultural boycotts work. One only has to look at how artists, writers and cultural institutions contributed to the end of Apartheid in South Africa. Today, ma... Read more »

One of the most heartening stories from the film world this year has been the huge well of support that has gathered around the Cinema for Gaza campaign, whi... Read more »

On 2 May, 1974, the Glasgow Film Theatre had its very first screening. That film was Federico Fellini’s flamboyant Roma. Fifty years later to the day, ... Read more »

The heart wants what the heart wants – and sometimes that’s a bodybuilder with a sweet smile who gets a bit antsy after one too many steroid inje... Read more »

Dinosaur, a new comedy set in Glasgow by Ashley Storrie and Matilda Curtis, doesn’t look like your typical Scottish sitcom. No shade to the likes of Sc... Read more »

At this month’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, Scottish documentarian Duncan Cowles will launch his debut feature, called Silent Men, into the world. Described as... Read more »

On 4 July, after 14 years and five prime ministers, each more hopeless than the last, we will hopefully be saying goodbye to our cruel, corrupt and inept Tor... Read more »

Making a film takes a village (sometimes a small city) of talented people, yet too often film discourse venerates the film director above everyone else. So i... Read more »

If you live in Scotland’s Central Belt, you’re spoiled for choice in terms of film festivals. Coming up in the next couple of months alone you ha... Read more »