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Five years have flown. To Tenement TV founders Chae Houston and Jamie Logie it feels like only yesterday that they stumbled upon a simple yet ingenious idea:... Read more »

In February 2015, Kanye West brought twenty five British grime MCs on stage for his performance of All Day at the Brit Awards. Skepta, Stormzy and Novelist &... Read more »

Dostoevsky once famously claimed that we all come from Gogol’s overcoat, a fittingly pithy statement describing not only the Russo literary great&rsquo... Read more »

Biffy Clyro are known to record in triptychs, with seventh LP Ellipsis being a bold new statement commencing a third album cycle. With Ellipsi... Read more »

The eponymous Louise of Louise by the Shore is a septuagenarian, much like writer-director-animator Jean-François Laguionie. Both are quietly working ... Read more »

"It's a music industry event with a difference," enthuses festival director Olaf Furniss. "I've worked for a lot of different music conferences and showcase ... Read more »

Brexit and the anti-European hysteria sweeping the UK are huge thematic concerns at this year’s Fringe, unsurprising for a Scottish festival that cause... Read more »

Squeezed from two days into one and scaled back from fifteen venues spread city-wide to a half-dozen proximate haunts, Hinterland have reformatted 2009&rsquo... Read more »

The authorative, original love story of British theatre, Romeo and Juliet, when viewed outside of the theatrical canon is a pretty strange affair – ost... Read more »

Shake [★★☆☆☆] In Dan Jemmett’s reimagining of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare has been taken to the beach, and not a classy beach of white sand and tinglin... Read more »

The Opening Gala The 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with the highly anticipated animation The Illusionist.  The film was conceived wh... Read more »

In his 18 hour documentary, The Story of Film, Mark Cousins offered cinema enthusiasts a comprehensive tour of the medium, tracing its journey from a no... Read more »

Evolution Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic Ever since writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic teased that she was working on an original feature over a decade ag... Read more »

I Am Belfast Dir. Mark Cousins Mark Cousins is arguably one of the best film essayists of our time, and the kind of thoughtful, gentle and poetic auteur ... Read more »

Everyone has their favourite books, but the writers at the Skinny have a number of favourites that you may not have heard of. So we, the Skinny writing staff... Read more »

1. Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins At a Q&A session following one of Moonlight’s public screenings at this year’s London Film Festival, dire... Read more »

Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins How did the story of a gay black man from Miami, with a largely unknown cast, become a universally acclaimed box office hit ... Read more »

Sterling efforts from Frank, Bey et al aside, there were some truly wonderful records made by the fair hearts of Scotland this year. As voted by our Music te... Read more »

Given recent votes, we half expected something racist and idiotic like Gerard Butler hokum Gods of Egypt to top this best films of the year poll. This drum t... Read more »

Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »

From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »

Court is in session. On trial are the critics and audiences who gave short shrift to these great films. The plaintiffs range from overlooked gems (A Bigger S... Read more »