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As ever, the Academy Award voters have giveth with one hand, and taketh with the other. In a year that both a foul-mouthed British art movie (The Favour... Read more »

Adolescence is brutal. Or at least it feels that way. The great achievement of Bo Burnham’s debut feature Eighth Grade is that he manages to visually a... Read more »

Wax fans rejoice! Record Store Day, the annual celebration of vinyl, rolls around once again on 13 April, with hundreds of new pressings planned, including l... Read more »

Triple Frontier is the kind of macho action movie Hollywood has long forgotten how to make. In the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, these hard-edged genre flicks fille... Read more »

Sacred Paws are back. At the end of May, the Glasgow-based band – made up of Rachel Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers – are due to release new album Run Ar... Read more »

1. Suitable Women: Films of Female Friendship Girlfriends Glasgow indie film team Pity Party Film Club have outdone themselves with this finely curated all... Read more »

French filmmaker Agnès Varda stood barely five feet tall, but in cinema terms, she was a giant. Her work spread over seven decades and never stayed st... Read more »

It was announced last week that LeithLate would be back in 2019 following a hiatus last year, and today news of the Leith multi-arts festival's first events ... Read more »

Stanley Kubrick only made a baker’s dozen of feature films across his five-decade career, but what films. Think of the images he created: the sinister ... Read more »

In the corner of the cosy lounge of a hip Glasgow hotel, Jessie Buckley is sitting crossed-legged in a fetching denim jumpsuit. The Killarney-born actor... Read more »

Like any great country song, Wild Rose is deceptively straightforward but packs a heck of an emotional punch. It follows 23-year-old ex-con Rose-Lynn (Jessie... Read more »

The movies love a 'beauty and the slob' story. Whether it’s Bill Murray wowing Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters or Jason Segel ending up with Mila Kuni... Read more »

The 73rd edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival looks to kick off on 19 June in rambunctious style this year with social comedy Boyz in the Wood fr... Read more »

A single episode of Game of Thrones will set you back around $10 million, and that won't even cover the CGI required to let Jon Snow pet his loyal direwolf. ... Read more »

Belle & Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister, one of the finest albums of the 90s, is being turned into a "play with songs" the upcomi... Read more »

Get set to feel even more conflicted about that mobile phone you're reading this story on, because Charlie Brooker's brilliant technophobic anthology sh... Read more »

Spend any time in Filmhouse’s cafe-bar during the last couple of weeks of June and you’re sure to spot a famous face or two supping on an IPA or ... Read more »

We all know the iconic characters created by Jim Henson on shows like The Muppets and Sesame Street, but the run of films he made with his Creature Shop in t... Read more »

Martin Scorsese is back with his old muckers Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci for his new gangster film The Irishman. De Niro and Pesci have starred together in ... Read more »

There’s a reason why race tracks don’t generally take their design inspiration from MC Escher. Flat, wide and even blacktop is what you’re ... Read more »

GI is back, and we're not talking about your complex carbohydrate intake. The biennial art extravaganza Glasgow International returns in April with a hu... Read more »

“Doesn’t money make you horny?” asks Jennifer Lopez’s Ramona, the star dancer at an upmarket New York strip club, near the beginning ... Read more »

For a long time, I assumed my first introduction to the lush cinema of Jane Campion was The Piano. As a pretentious teenager, the Kiwi’s Palme d’... Read more »

You know the phrase, “less is more”? The experience of watching this movie version of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is the inverse. Writer Pe... Read more »

Sunday evening programming on TV can be cloyingly cosy – no one wants to get too riled up before the working week begins, we suppose. BBC Two had somet... Read more »

Big business has long loved to cosy up to the arts, and it’s easy to see why both parties are happy with the arrangement. The capitalists get a PR boos... Read more »

The mighty Doune the Rabbit Hole festival will be returning to Cardross Estate in Port of Menteith this July and its first wave of acts suggests we're in for... Read more »

In 2020, you’ll probably feel like escaping into fantasy, and there’s no better brain-melter in all of cinema than Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Chil... Read more »

There is no more elaborate and indulgent a shot in all of cinema than the long take. It screams, “Look at me! Aren’t I virtuosic?” In sayin... Read more »

It’s fair to say that we at The Skinny, along with most film fans in the world, are very excited to see Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, his f... Read more »