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The film world was rocked last month by the death of David Lynch, the most original and influential American filmmaker to emerge after the New Hollywood era.... Read more »

Scotland is not short of film festivals but there are none quite like HippFest. Scotland’s annual celebration of silent cinema returns to the Hippodrom... Read more »

Jupiter Artland and Edinburgh Art Festival have once again teamed up to throw one of the parties of the summer. One-night-only shindig Jupiter Rising x EAF t... Read more »

Hollywood thrillers aren’t very relatable, are they? Not many people can claim to have been behind the wheel of a bus rigged to explode if its speed dr... Read more »

Edinburgh Art Festival has revealed its busy programme for its 2025 edition, which takes place 7 to 24 August and will feature 82 exhibitions spread across 4... Read more »

It’s the early 90s, and a young film nut sits cross-legged in his pyjamas late on a Sunday night waiting for Mad Max 2 to start on TV. He’d recen... Read more »

Hot on the heels of announcing its opening film, Sorry, Baby, the Edinburgh International Film Festival has revealed the film that will open its Midnight Mad... Read more »

It’s been a few weeks since my visit to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and I’m still thinking about Out of Love. That intimate Fren... Read more »

The title of the second feature from talented Argentine director Lucia Castro is pretty instructive. It braces you for a work dealing with loss and grief, an... Read more »

There’s a lot riding on Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, and I’m not just talk... Read more »

Take One Action (TOA), Scotland’s film festival for social change, has had a reinvention. The upcoming edition will be its 17th, but the first of a new... Read more »

Anyone who thinks acting is a doddle should meet Robert Aramayo. This talented 32-year-old from Hull takes his craft extremely seriously. Deep research, imme... Read more »

The autumn film festival season is still very much upon us. You can read all about SQIFF (various venues, Glasgow, 27 Oct-1 Nov) in our October issue, and ou... Read more »

Autumn’s film festival season keeps on serving. Coming up in November, we’ve got Scotland Loves Anime (until 16 Nov) and French Film Festival UK ... Read more »

Is this a banner year for French cinema? A quick scan of the brochure for this year’s French Film Festival UK suggests the answer is a resounding yes! ... Read more »

It’s Christmas time, so you don’t need me to tell you that your local cinemas will be jam-packed with perennial faves like It’s a Wonderful... Read more »

You'll find lots of great new films covered in this month's issue, but one title we couldn’t wrench from its distributor ahead of print was Nouvelle Va... Read more »

The 22nd edition of Glasgow Film Festival is just around the corner. It’ll be the first in the festival’s history to take place without the invol... Read more »

Scotland’s culture scene has taken a beating over the last few years, but few blows have hit harder than the closure of the Centre for Contemporary Art... Read more »

Scotland’s most prestigious celebration of arts and culture, the Edinburgh International Festival, returns this summer, running 7 to 30 August, and it ... Read more »

Glasgow Short Film Festival came to a close last night with its annual awards ceremony. Among the celebration, there was also a sense of relief in the air fo... Read more »

Positive Stories for Negative Times, the excellent initiative by Glasgow-based theatre company Wonder Fools, is back for its fifth season. It's a forward-thi... Read more »

Refugee Festival Scotland returns from 12–21 June with more than 150 events across the country celebrating art, culture and community. As anti-ref... Read more »

It’s a wonder anyone ever goes into the great outdoors, given how often things go awry there in films. Anyone planning a camping trip to the outback sh... Read more »

In cinema, Danish family gatherings rarely go off without a hitch, and so is the case for Mads Mengel’s The Guest, which appears to be attempting to do... Read more »

Is Trainspotting a wee bit overplayed in Scotland? Yes. Do we need another ad campaign reimagining the "Choose Life" monologue? No, and I’m looking at ... Read more »

This article has been updated with copy from the 2026 edition of The Skinny Guide to Edinburgh – pick up a copy at venues across Edinburgh this summer,... Read more »

Anyone who’s under the impression that Gen Z might be a bit kinder than the kids who came before clearly hasn’t been to Serbia. The way director ... Read more »

Filmmaking siblings are ten a penny in Hollywood. These brothers and sisters tend to work together (think the Coens, the Wachowskis, the Safdies) but there a... Read more »

Much like skinning a moggy, there is no one way to make a movie. Paul Wright is testament to that. He’s only made a handful of fiction films since grad... Read more »