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Prolific filmmaker, critic and all-round cinema hero Mark Cousins discusses the flâneur tradition, feminism and falling back in love with his hometown ... Read more »

Jordan Peele's blistering Get Out is a scary, funny and razor sharp social thriller, and the most exciting debut film this year “Run rabbit – ru... Read more »

The Talking Heads frontman remembers his friend Jonathan Demme, the great filmmaker who directed the near perfect Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sens... Read more »

Movie actors are a funny old lot. Essentially they’re big kids who’ve been paid handsomely to raid the dressing up box, but to hear them talk you... Read more »

Sweet Virginia opens with three men playing poker in a bar so poorly lit that they’re practically silhouettes. One mentions a forest fire that’s ... Read more »

Cast your eyes across the programme of any forward thinking film festival and you’ll find a strand devoted to virtual reality. Even at a dinosaur like ... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off this week, and it’s doing so in fine style with Francis Lee’s deeply affecting love story God&rsq... Read more »

For over two decades, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has steadily been making some of the most humane films in modern cinema, and with Hayao Miyazaki no... Read more »

For the past three decades, the great Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki has been making some of the most original comedies in world cinema. This downbeat ... Read more »

When an actor turns director, their choice of first film can be telling. More often than not, if the actor chooses to also act in the film, the debut can bec... Read more »

Scotland does not want for specialist film festivals during the autumn months, but a new one is entering the mix this September offering something unique. Kr... Read more »

The mismatched buddy movie hasn’t evolved much since Walter Hill created its modern archetype with 48 Hrs, his 1982 thriller where racial electricity c... Read more »

The cinema world has many reasons to celebrate the films of Jean-Pierre Melville, but the fact that this year marks the centenary of his birth is as good as ... Read more »

When the great American filmmaker Jonathan Demme died back in April at the age of 73, everyone who ever worked with him was in agreement: he was a good guy. ... Read more »

1) Jonathan Demme: CineMaster The funky and compassionate cinema of the late, great Jonathan Demme is celebrated at Glasgow Film Theatre this month with a... Read more »

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 »