Search Results

Director Destin Cretton based Short Term 12 on his own experiences working in a foster care facility for at-risk teenagers, and it shows. His drama docu... Read more »

In his impressive debut Of Horses and Men, director Benedikt Erlingsson deftly weaves a darkly comic portrait of the equine world within stunning, rural... Read more »

Opening with a film within a film’s ending, director and million dollar talent John L. Sullivan (John McCrea) is looking to abandon the mainstream cine... Read more »

Hollywood’s cannibalistic cycle of consumption and regurgitation continues unabated, as yet another super Asian horror is chewed up, sucked of its crea... Read more »

The UK’s leading social change film festival, Take One Action!, returns this month to assorted cultural institutions across Glasgow and Edinburgh to in... Read more »

My Skinny Sister My Skinny Sister (★★★) is the first film from Swedish writer-director Sanna Lenken, whose own experience with eating disorders also informe... Read more »

In research for this review of Takashi Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse (★★) we read time and time again that this film is only for hardcore fans of Japanese c... Read more »

There's something lurking in the depths in Lucile Hadžihalilović's Évolution. We sat down with this deeply original French filmmaker to shine a light ... Read more »

Mark Cousins is arguably one of the best film essayists of our time, and the kind of thoughtful, gentle and poetic auteur that a city as traumatised and as b... Read more »

Opening with the 2011 London riots, sparked by the police killing of unarmed young black man Mark Duggan, Urban Hymn follows two POC teenagers, Jamie (Letiti... Read more »

The White King stars up-and-coming young actor Lorenzo Allchurch, who plays 12-year-old Djata, a happy boy unaware of the dangers of the isolationist dictato... Read more »

The Skinny catches up with rising star of Scottish Ballet, the talented choreographer Sophie Laplane as she prepares to premiere her specially commissioned o... Read more »

Misfits and Mortal Instruments actor Robert Sheehan talks to The Skinny about starring and producing suspenseful indie thriller Jet Trash It would be a sham... Read more »

The Other Side of Hope begins with Khaled (Sherwan Haji), his face and body completely camouflaged in sparkling soot, emerging like a divine, alien entity in... Read more »

O My Heart is the sophomore album from Canadian twee darlings, Mother Mother, offering some vibrant compositions that play with all the classical complexity ... Read more »

Forget numerous bank holidays, losing an hour of sleep and increasing amounts of sunshine. For clubbers, The Wee Chill festival is the true herald of the Sco... Read more »

Richard Ayoade deftly crafts humanist comedy from dark, Kafkaesque absurdity in his Dostoyevsky adaptation The Double. Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg... Read more »

As part of Glasgow International 2014, New York-based artist Anne Collier continues her feminist investigations into the photographic mechanics of gaze and s... Read more »

The horse is a decidedly cinematic beast; aesthetically and symbolically rich, its uneasy alliance with man is instantly and almost universally recognisable ... Read more »

52 Tuesdays chronicles the relationship of 16-year-old Billie (Tilda Cobham-Harvey) and her transgender mother, James (Del Herbert-Jane), who makes the diffi... Read more »

This June, legendary auteur Martin Scorsese presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, a unique collection of Polish film at Glasgow’s GFT and Edinburgh&r... Read more »

Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) is prolific Italian horror auteur Dario Argento’s self-proclaimed masterpiece, and arguably the definitive magnum opus of gia... Read more »

In Old Bhopal, India, four very different women’s lives are tacitly interwoven in Alankrita Shrivastava’s award winning festival hit, Lipstick Un... Read more »

With the advent of post-television – TV freed from the constraints of networks and its once make-or-break schedules – audiences have never had mo... Read more »

Intelligent, cinematic and brutal, the fully fleshed-out Raw stormed the competition at London Film Festival to win the First Feature Prize. Like any ho... Read more »

Teenage Superstars is Grant McPhee's follow up to 2015’s Big Gold Dream, which charted the unlikely, near-mythical success of a pair of Scottish record... Read more »

Paines Plough has one of the most exciting and varied programmes this summer at Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival. Boasting three world premieres and critica... Read more »

The Love Witch (★★★★★) Nowadays, the word “auteur” is used very much interchangeably with “director” and often means one with a reco... Read more »

Brimming with French and francophonic works from not only France but Germany, Turkey and the UK, the French Institut’s programme is a tour de force of ... Read more »

Has there been an edition of Take One Action – Scotland’s film festival dedicated to the cinema of social action and change – tha... Read more »