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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Brexit. Pandemic. Economic recession. Suffice to say, these are not exactly ideal conditions for growing your business. But 15 Glasgow companies in creative ... Read more »

Feminist film festival Femspectives returns 23 to 25 April for a weekend of film and discussion (taking place online this year, of course). “We are exc... Read more »

Life on the American frontier is hard in Kelly Reichardt’s seventh feature First Cow. But, as in the 21st century, a little human companionship go... Read more »

Limbo explores the experience of refugees living in Scotland, but leave any preconceptions you might have at the door. Director Ben Sharrock avoids the ... Read more »

Berwick-upon-Tweed might be officially an English town, but it’s disputed territory as far as The Skinny’s film section is concerned, as we see t... Read more »

The films of Irish directing duo Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor (who've dubbed their production company Desperate Optimists) are deliciously slippery. Shift... Read more »

It’s all change at the upcoming Scottish Queer International Film Festival. The seventh edition sees Nat Lall and Jamie Rea take the reins as co-progra... Read more »

Laura and Tom are the couple behind TravelTwo, and they share a love of photography and a dislike for sitting still. They have been living in Edinburgh for a... Read more »

Start compiling a list of the greatest Scots in history and David Livingstone is likely to be near the top. But is the prevailing image of the good doctor &n... Read more »

Mark Cousins' films can be broadly categorised into two piles. There are his openhearted essays on film culture, where he uses his vast film knowledge to cas... Read more »

Oh how we’ve missed Glasgow Film Festival. Last year the event was all set to be a hybrid affair, with plenty of socially distant in-person screenings,... Read more »

There’s clearly been plenty of cash thrown at this bravura remake of Edmund Goulding's 1947 film noir. The cast is spilling over with talent; the 40s s... Read more »

Fire (Claire Denis) French director Claire Denis makes films of three flavours: brutal (High Life, Bastards), swooning (Let the Sunshine In, 35 Shots of R... Read more »

Glasgow Film Theatre has an absolute treat for Glasgow cinephiles this month with a retrospective of the lyrical films of American director and long-time GFF... Read more »

Hope Dickson Leach looks chilly. I can barely see her behind her thick-rimmed spectacles, chunky yellow scarf and scarlet woolly hat as she calls in over Zoo... Read more »