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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 »

In the corner of a busy bar in a posh London hotel, barely visible through a throng of journalists, PRs and swirling waiting staff, sits Broxburn-raised... Read more »

Undine, the latest film from the always-interesting German filmmaker Christian Petzold, features one of the strangest meet-cutes in recent memory. A man call... Read more »

Cinema is not short of rape-revenge movies, perhaps the most troubling of sub-genres. Any vicarious thrill from seeing these films’ antagonists hunted ... Read more »

“I feel like the gay world changed drastically over the last 20 years.” Filmmaker Lucio Castro is musing on the revolution to the lives of gay me... Read more »

Glasgow Short Film Festival’s “12th and a half edition” began like so many other cultural events over the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown: with a po... Read more »

Over the years, movies haven't exactly been the best advert for visiting Scotland's great outdoors. An island in the Hebrides proves less than hospitable for... Read more »

Can you ever go home again? That’s the sentiment examined at the heart of Monsoon, the delicate second feature from Cambodian-British filmmaker Hong Kh... Read more »

The setup for Babyteeth, the debut film from Australian director Shannon Murphy, sounds like pure Sundance bait: a teen girl with leukaemia (Eliza Scanlen) f... Read more »

Glasgow Short Film Festival becomes the first annual film festival to have to go virtual twice, as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the UK film exhibitio... Read more »

Film festivals fulfil many functions. They provide a platform for emerging and established artists to present their new work to audiences. They allow critics... Read more »