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From some of the cream of the Cannes crop to restored classics and mainstream hits, the French Film Festival is a much-appreciated annual event for the UK&rs... Read more »

Ad Astra Dir. James Gray | Release TBC After taking characters to the New World (The Immigrant) and deep into the Amazon rainforest (The Lost City of Z), J... Read more »

The School of Design offers perspectives on common themes across various disciplines – 2024's graduating students produce designs with a considered com... Read more »

Books Mount Florida BooksI love Mount Florida Books. Great books, great vibes, and did you know they reinvest their profits into Glasgow’s literary an... Read more »

We – Tallah Brash (Music Editor) and Nadia Younes (Clubs Editor) – were back on the radio today (1 Apr) for our third show on Edinburgh community... Read more »

The curtain has come down on another edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and we're delighted to once again bring you work from the writers ... Read more »

The Breadwinner Dir. Nora Twomey The Breadwinner is an ode to storytelling, revelling in the boundless freedom of animation to create a kaleidoscope of t... Read more »

The Cineskinny is the film podcast from some of the team behind The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies.... Read more »

Not Your Usual is a new series of podcasts from The Skinny – each episode, we'll be having an extended chat with a Scottish creative who's doing things... Read more »

1. Aftersun Dir. Charlotte Wells There is a sense throughout Aftersun of reaching and reaching, of brushing something vital with your fingertips only to ha... Read more »

25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »

Anger, solidarity and resistance runs through Sonic Séance: The Gathering (until 28 July). With a varied programme of dance, performance, video and wo... Read more »

A STYLE Icon can be a person, place, district, building, home… We asked some of The Skinny’s team to share their local style inspirations, and y... Read more »

20. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder) "Director Darius Marder has crafted a profound story about deafness, intimately exploring the nuances of hearing loss a... Read more »

1. Severance Among the offerings exclusive to Apple’s streaming platform this year, Dan Erickson’s Severance surely sits atop the pile. An intri... Read more »

Our Peripheral Visions season of free events at our new home in Codebase offer a chance to interact, explore and engage with the arts as the Edinburgh Festiv... Read more »

10. Unbelievable In the seemingly oversaturated category of ‘true crime’ media, Netflix have managed to create a timely miniseries that admira... Read more »

10. Love Lies Bleeding Dir. Rose Glass Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass’s sophomore feature, is a sapphic grindhouse version of Pumping Iro... Read more »

Phantom Thread Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson There are blatant shades of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, but the mo... Read more »

We at The Skinny love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative, the ongoing season where the Edinburgh cinema invite some of the most interesting artists wor... Read more »

Being a fresher is just a million feelings, experiences, and moments of hell baked into nine speedy months. It’s usually the first time people are livi... Read more »

1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed  Dir. Laura Poitras This year – both cinematically and politically – has been characterised by cr... Read more »

Ubuntu Women ShelterUbuntu Women Shelter offers shelter and support to women facing destitution in the face of the UK's unconscionable immigration system, an... Read more »

20. Wild Rose (Dir. Tom Harper) 19. Too Late to Die Young (Dir. Dominga Sotomayor) 18. John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (Dir. Chad Stahelski) 17. Amazing Grac... Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival has come to a close for another year, and the weather gods proved kinder than in 2018, when the Beast from the East put the kibosh on m... Read more »

Alchemy Festive Markets The Alchemy Experiment returns with their festive markets series, which features a daily rotation of seven artists & makers and ... Read more »

Riso Club I am obsessed with pretty printed paper things (I too have a fierce eye on the East End Press garlands on Polly's list further down the page) an... Read more »

We don’t need another article telling us how bad 2020 was: instead we’re focussing on a small beacon of good – the year's best books. To en... Read more »

The secret’s out! The Skinny’s favourite film of the year is, erm, the same as everyone else’s: Paul Thomas Anderson’s propulsive One... Read more »

December 2009, Issue 51“I have lots of favourites so I'm going to go for a personal throwback. This was a cover story for me, before I was the editor, ... Read more »