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It’s one year on from the events of Stranger Things, but all is not well in the sleepy town of Hawkins, Indiana. Middle-school kid Will Byers is still ... Read more »

Critics at Cannes have their claws out for Xavier Dolan's latest melodrama It's Only the End of the World. It's currently the worst reviewed films at the fes... Read more »

As ever, opening the new fresh-from-the-printers EIFF programme offers up a world of cinematic delights. Choosing what to see, however, can be a bit of a luc... Read more »

Brady Corbet has come a long way from 2004's Thunderbirds reboot. Since that inauspicious start he's chosen his acting roles wisely and with The Childhood of... Read more »

Three years ago, The Skinny ran a cover story celebrating “a new dawn” of Scottish cinema. Looking back with 20-20 hindsight, perhaps that was to... Read more »

Don't fool yourself into thinking you'll have time to watch the whole 15 hours of Berlin Alexanderplatz after you graduate. Now is the time to get properly l... Read more »

By now, you’ve probably exhausted the eight exquisite episodes of Stranger Things. Hungry for more? Here are some films and TV shows that might sate yo... Read more »

In Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn channelled his inner hero through star Ryan Gosling. For his new feature, The Neon Demon, a silky horror set within the LA fas... Read more »

With Things to Come and now Elle, French actor Isabelle Huppert is making a good case for being the best actor working right now. She discusses her craft at ... Read more »

Is this the glitziest London Film Festival yet? We reckon so. As ever, the festival has taken a massive sieve to the big international festivals of Cannes, V... Read more »

Woody Allen has been on a run of horrible form for the last two decades. Might a move to the small screen bring back the 80-year-old's comic magic? That&rsqu... Read more »

Tough break-ups to watch through splayed fingers Annie Hall Alvy Singer (Woody Allen): "A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has t... Read more »

New documentary De Palma, from Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, lets New Hollywood survivor Brian De Palma talk through the ups and downs of his career. Ahead... Read more »

Manchester by the Sea Dir. Kenneth Lonergan Kenneth Lonergan has made only three films in 16 years – You Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011)... Read more »

Pregnant serial killers, cannibalistic veterinarian students and the Spanish take on Dracula – just some of the highlights of new horror season FilmFea... Read more »

Donnie Darko is back for its 15th anniversary on a 4K digital transfer, and it looks better than ever Do you remember the first time you fell for Donni... Read more »

Jean Luc-Godard once said, “If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you h... Read more »

The best film events happening in the North this week, including Liverpool Film Night and a very special screening of Blaxploitation classic Shaft Joy Fo... Read more »

It's LGBT History Month, so whether you're gay, bi, straight or somewhere else on the sexual spectrum, it's the perfect excuse to see more queer cinema. Here... Read more »

Handsome Devil might be the straightest gay film in the history of cinema. Or, to put it another way, its characters may be queer, but the filmmaking ce... Read more »

Top Ten Events Scotland 16-23 May: Stag and Dagger, Mount Eerie + Southside Film Festival         ... Read more »

It’s test cricket season. Test cricket is rubbish: five days of men standing in a field that often end in a draw. Films about cricket, on the other han... Read more »

Top Ten Events Northwest 24-31 Oct: Alison Goldfrapp, The Voodoo Ball + Parquet Courts         ... Read more »

Each week The Skinny team hand-pick a selection of the best events from the North's cultural calendar to provide you with this 'ere top ten guide to the most... Read more »

We're not even a week into the Fringe and it's already taken its toll on The Skinny team – pots of coffee and bacon rolls from Snax are ... Read more »

Mea Maxima Culpa (Alex Gibney) A sober but enraging companion piece to his Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa is anot... Read more »

Everyone loves a bad movie and Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) is screening three of the very worst this month. First there's Plan 9 From Outer Space (10 May... Read more »

Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, 1973) The opening scene of Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow is perfect. On a dusty, tumbleweed-strewn highway in No... Read more »

Top Ten Events Scotland 9-16 May: Tectonics Glasgow, John Grant + Bill Bailey     THE WEEK AHEAD Y... Read more »

Top Ten Events Northwest 26 Sep-3 Oct: Psych Fest, BC Camplight + Abandon Normal Devices   THE WE... Read more »