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Tv RadioChris McQueer's Hings
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 »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
FestivalsBelle & Sebastian play heading to Edinburgh Fringe
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 »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Tv RadioBlack Mirror season five trailer and date announced
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 »| Updated about 7 years ago -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival: The stars coming to 2019's festival
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 »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Tv RadioWatch the stunning trailer for Netflix's Dark Crystal prequel
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 »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
FilmWatch the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman
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 »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
FilmTollcross Drift: Fast & Furious 9 in Edinburgh
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FestivalsGlasgow International announces 2020 programme
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmHustlers
“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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmShort Films on TV: Random Acts and BBC Scotland
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmThe Goldfinch
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmJonathan Glazer returns with new short film The Fall
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
ArtNational Galleries Scotland dump BP exhibition
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FestivalsBelle & Sebastian to headline Doune the Rabbit Hole
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmThe Best Film Events in Scotland in January
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmFive great "one-shot" films
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmThe French Dispatch looks like Wes Anderson to the max
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmRiot Girls: Michael Caton-Jones on Our Ladies
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 »| Updated about 6 years ago -
FilmBerlinale 2020: Undine
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 »| Updated about 6 years ago -
FilmPromising Young Woman
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 »| Updated about 6 years ago -
FilmLucio Castro on End of the Century
“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 »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals10 Great Scottish Short Films from GSFF 2020
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 »| Updated over 5 years ago -
FilmYouth in Revolt: Ninian Doff on Get Duked!
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 »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
FilmMonsoon
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 »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
FilmBabyteeth
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival returns for its 14th edition
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 »| Updated over 5 years ago -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival highlights Black Scottish filmmakers
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 »| Updated over 5 years ago -
FilmMeet the stars of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2021
Laura Carreira The Shift Early in her career, Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira became interested in portraying labour on screen. “I found it very... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
FilmShort Circuit: Glasgow Short Film Festival interview
Later this month, Glasgow Short Film Festival will become the first UK cinema event forced to go virtual for a second time as we pass the one year mark since... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
FilmI Was at Home, But...
There are mysterious openings to films, and then there is the prologue to I Was at Home, But... We see a wild young dog chase a rabbit across some scrub... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago