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Today, Edinburgh’s Filmhouse has unveiled ambitious plans to build a new “home for film and screen culture in Edinburgh”. Located just a fe... Read more »

Opening a newly printed brochure for the Edinburgh International Film Festival can be daunting. While some of the films in the selection are arriving in the ... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival officially returns to August this year – read about the great films coming to EIFF (12-20 Aug) in our CineSk... Read more »

For Scottish film fans, June means one thing: Edinburgh International Film Festival. And the main festival's annual alfresco warmup, Film Fest in the City, w... Read more »

Prefacing itself with the sobering truth that Nunavut, the most northern territory of Canada, has the highest suicide rate in North America, Miranda de Penci... Read more »

Der-dumm, der-dumm, dumm-dumm, dumm-dumm, dumm-dumm, dumm. John Williams' score for Jaws is the aural equivalent of iconic... earconic? If you're attending t... Read more »

It’s been hard to get a handle on Edinburgh International Film Festival of late. It’s by far the oldest film festival in the UK, but so rocky has... 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’re not used to cinematic masterpieces emerging from Scotland in successive years but that’s exactly what’s happened. In 2021 we had Limb... 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 »

Director William McGregor’s feature debut captures the spirit of the age with this Victorian-era folk horror. Maxine Peake proves her mettle as the ult... Read more »

Prepare for whiplash in the basketball drama The First Slam Dunk, and not just from the hyperkinetic editing of the action on court. There’s a rather j... Read more »

Ira Sachs has long been one of the most exciting voices on the American indie scene but he hasn’t quite broken through to a wide audience. Passages mig... Read more »

Offbeat and outrageously tender, Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples centres on the relationship between a cantor and his adult Bat Mitzvah student, wh... Read more »

If you like your documentaries to be both extremely meta and deeply moving, you’ll love A Cat Called Dom, the debut feature film from Will Anderson and... Read more »

In Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s debut feature, farming refers not to agriculture but to the informal fostering of thousands of Nigerian children by white... Read more »

The most intense friendships can feel like a romance: the euphoric highs, the crushing lows, the laughs, the tears. There are also the boring bits, the munda... Read more »

Rodrigo Guerro’s Venezia is a sob-stifling study of grief and a twisted love story of sorrow and isolation, played out against the backdrop of a city f... Read more »

As images of the grey and desolate housing schemes of Motherwell slip across the screen, 18-year-old Gemma wistfully remarks in her metallic, West Coast twan... Read more »

A suspicious looking middle-aged man sits alone in his van and quietly observes a lonely woman. A few days later, she invites him into her house and the two ... Read more »

A forest at night. The camera moves through trees and foliage, picking details from the gloom. Suddenly a lone figure enters the frame, stalking and clutchin... Read more »

A wonderfully emotional film, low-key Spanish sci-fi Not the End tells the story of a couple – Javier the regretful time traveller (played by Javi... Read more »

Usually a film will attempt to disguise its influences, but with its Twilight Zone opening and framing scenes with a crackly 1950s television set, sci-fi mys... Read more »

“In life there is honey and there [are] onions; it’s not all honey”, we are wisely told in Sarah Kaskas’ feature documentary debut Un... Read more »

Balance, Not Symmetry is unbearable. Directed and co-written by Jamie Adams, this aimless and inconclusive drama about a young woman processing a deep loss r... Read more »

Cinema does not want for films featuring youth in revolt, but rarely has the clash between the young and old been so energetically staged as in Ninian Doff&r... Read more »

Allison Gardner – CEO, Glasgow Film; Director, Glasgow Film Festival Cinema adjacent highlight of 2024?I'd have to say Viggo Mortensen attending the f... Read more »

Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s pop culture phenomenon, Memory: The Origins of Alien looks at the genesis of the iconic mons... Read more »

Cinema is back, baby! Just don’t stand so close and please wear a mask! As Edinburgh International Film Festival (18-25 Aug) becomes the first large i... Read more »

Scottish cinemas get a bit racy this month as a wonderful selection of pre-Code films head to Filmhouse and GFT. For those uninitiated in this debauched peri... Read more »