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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 »

Glasgow-based art production house Cryptic have assembled another tantalising edition of the visual sonic art festival Sonica, which this year celebrates its... Read more »

Good news, everyone! There’ll be no need to schlep to Edinburgh Park this August, as the Edinburgh International Festival returns to its regular theatr... Read more »

It’s not often we get to speak to a rising movie star who we regularly see buying milk at the "Big Tesco" in Leith, Edinburgh. But that’s the cas... Read more »

Not all superheroes in the MCU are born equal. Some are gods who can wield lightning or geniuses who fly around in tanked-up armour; others are grunts w... Read more »

With 2022 being hailed as Scotland’s Year of Stories, it's the perfect opportunity to dive into our nation's most iconic books, as well ... Read more »

The very first films of the late 19th century did not feature glamorous movie actors or emoting thespians. Their stars were ordinary people, like the women s... Read more »

Is there a tougher job in UK cinema exhibition than being head of the Edinburgh International Film Festival? From the outside, it appears not. This venerable... Read more »

For the last decade or so, Edinburgh cinephiles have had a quiet August. The Edinburgh International Film Festival was first held in 1947, the same year as t... Read more »

Cool Edinburgh: Trainspotting ​​British cinema is a lot of things, but you’d never describe it as cool. But that all changed with the arrival of Dan... Read more »

In the year that Edinburgh International Film Festival’s annual Michael Powell Award is retooled to become the Powell and Pressburger Award, there&rsqu... Read more »

Glasgow Film has assembled another ridiculously young programming crew to put together the innovative Glasgow Youth Film Festival. Made up of Glasgow teens a... Read more »

While watching Flux Gourmet, the latest film from Peter Strickland, British cinema's premier chronicler of kink, fetish and general weirdness, I’ve a f... Read more »