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Scotland does not want for creative excellence. A cursory glance at any issue of The Skinny will tell you that. This doesn’t mean it’s easy being... Read more »

Some exciting new films have been added to the Glasgow Film Festival lineup: two UK premieres and a world premiere. First, there's Kelly Reichardt’s h... Read more »

There’s much to miss from Berlinale going digital this year. Kebabs from the Mall of Berlin; cheesy käsespätzle from the wee van near the Son... Read more »

Starting a new business is never easy. Starting one in 2021 is particularly challenging. But fifteen companies in Glasgow will hopefully have more than just ... Read more »

If the last 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that we need art. With everyone’s lives shrunken to the few rooms of your home and the street... Read more »

The thriller potential of location-based gay dating apps like Grindr is sharply explored in this stylish first feature from Australian filmmaker Samuel ... Read more »

If life was a moving image, it would be an epic narrative film unfolding over time. The last 12 months, however, have hardly felt linear. They’ve been ... Read more »

The 93rd Academy Awards were a strange affair. For the first time in the history of this celebration of cinema, actual cinemas were not a prerequisite. Durin... Read more »

Hip-hop’s influence on contemporary music and society in general is huge, although here in Scotland the genre still remains on the periphery, despite t... Read more »

We’re very much looking forward to the return of Edinburgh International Film Festival after the long-running event took a hiatus last year due to the ... Read more »

Cinema is back, baby! Just don’t stand so close and please wear a mask! As Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-25 Aug) becomes the first large i... Read more »

It’s a powerful film that can make a working-class lad from the Lowlands care about Highland gentry, but that’s precisely the case with Cindy Jan... Read more »

This sinewy thriller from Denmark presents us with a very familiar setup, combining an old movie trope with a ripped-from-the-headlines premise. Veteran cop ... Read more »

Take One Action has announced its return, and we’re happy to report the 14th edition of the festival will be an in-person event across four cities (Edi... Read more »

With Edinburgh open for business again, it's a great time to get out there, meet friends you haven’t seen in ages or simply reconnect with the city and... Read more »

Belle Mamoru Hosoda might be the most exciting voice in Japanese animation right now. With films like Wolf Children and Mirai, he’s certainly proven h... Read more »

Scottish telly is pretty hot right now. BBC One’s drama à la mode is the daftly enjoyable Vigil, a submarine-set whodunit starring&nbs... Read more »

How did you come to set up Monorail in King’s Court? It just seemed to happen quite naturally. With the record shop we’d been looking for a whil... Read more »

Christmas is a time for giving. Unfortunately, it’s also a time for wasting. From the mountains of non-recyclable wrapping paper that pile up beneath o... Read more »

Like practically every film festival in the UK, the 2020 edition of the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival got the kibosh thanks to you-know-what. After hosting... Read more »

Nicole Holofcener has long been one of American indie cinema’s most vital but underappreciated filmmakers. Since her shimmering debut Walking and ... Read more »

Finnish writer-director Juho Kuosmanen is as unassuming a filmmaker as you’re likely to meet, although he’s every right to be cocky. After all, i... Read more »

There aren’t too many Scottish filmmakers who could pull off playing a coked-up hardman who’s stripped to the waist, save for an undone coat, and... Read more »

Some filmmakers are so wedded to the milieu in which they live that it becomes hard to discuss their films without doing so in the context of their surroundi... Read more »

Trying to condense the sprawling comedy lineup at the Edinburgh Fringe into an easy-to-digest article is a fool's errand. But as you can see, we’ve att... Read more »

Many of New German Cinema auteur Wim Wenders' best films trade in existential cool and a weary malaise, and some of them are screening at Glasgow F... Read more »

Do you have a wild story from your school days that you love to roll out whenever you get together with your old classmates? However outlandish your anecdote... Read more »

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 »