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FINAL FESTIVAL: It didn’t quite fit in this issue, but we would still like to recommend Kaleidoscope Festival on the weekend 30 Sep-2 Oct at Kinkell Fa... Read more »

The (Rare) Female Protagonist The Brave: Pixar’s latest, set in an olden-days Scotch-land where the men are big and drunk and the wummin ken their pla... Read more »

1. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)Few films this year can match The Tree of Life's sense of soaring ambition, and fewer still can match the breathtaking artis... Read more »

Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer) — 22 Feb Based on the incredibly complex novel by David Mitchell (not that one), Cloud Atlas consists of ... Read more »

1. The Raid (Gareth Evans) Vice-like expectation is nuanced only by punishing adrenalin in Gareth Evans’s Indonesian actioner The Raid. Rookie cop Ram... Read more »

Last year, The Skinny teamed up with Innis & Gunn to launch a competition to find the best micro-budget short film (a short film produced for less than &... Read more »

Following the success of last year’s Skinny Short Film Competition, we’re once again on the hunt for the most exciting new voices in short film-m... Read more »

About the short film competition The Skinny teamed up with Innis & Gunn to launch a film competition to find the best micro-budget short film (a short f... Read more »

The Hyundai Mercury Prize Albums of the Year shortlist, as selected by a judging panel including Ella Eyre, Marcus Mumford, Jamie Cullum, MistaJam and Jessie... Read more »

After a brilliant response to this year’s competition, with over 100 emerging filmmakers from across the UK submitting work, Ferguson's striking and st... Read more »

Cine team’s films of the festival Jamie Dunn – Après mai (Olivier Assayas): It’s Dazed and Confused meets Ted. Josh Slater-Willaims ... Read more »

CineSkinny team’s personal picks of GFF14 Jamie Dunn – I’ve went for a tie between two bold cinematic visions made in Scotland: Under the ... Read more »

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a miracle; similar to “the green place” MacGuffin that Charlize Theron’... Read more »

Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) It's hard to imagine we'll see many more perfectly matched performances this year than the two delivered by Rebecca Spence and... 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 »

ART Scotland Art editor Adam Benmakhlouf selects his 2015 highlight Phyllida Barlow's exhibition at the Fruitmarket was an excellent play of the monumental... 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 »

As Christmas nears, thoughts turn to dinner parties, interminable nights out and Christmas pudding-related injuries. Well, your thoughts might turn to those ... Read more »

Jackie Kay named new Scots Makar Spring has sprung, and, in terms of news, it’s pretty obvious what the focus for April will be: Scotland’s new ... Read more »

What comes to your mind we you think 'British Cinema'? Do you picture a dour room with characters indulging in bittersweet conversations while drinking tea (... Read more »

1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) The standout line of 2013 comes in the extended third act of its standout film, Richard Linklater’s second unex... Read more »

Gutter is a magazine for new Scottish writing, launched this past August. Issue 02 will be launched in February, but the submission deadline for this next is... Read more »

1. CLUBS | Abandon Silence: Farewell to The Kazimier Part 2 The Kazimier, Liverpool. Fri 6 Nov, 10pm, £... Read more »

As The Skinny goes on a break and waits for the situation outside to improve, the people who make this project what it is – the writers, photographers,... Read more »

1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) Under the Skin is a film that shows you things you’ve never seen before. Jonathan Glazer’s extraordin... Read more »

Love & Friendship Dir. Whit Stillman It shouldn’t exactly be a shock that the year’s funniest film to date comes from American writer-dir... 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 »

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 »

The cost of performing at the Fringe can be incredibly high, with the cost of venue hire, accommodation and travel all adding to the financial burden. Becaus... Read more »

T2 (Danny Boyle) Released 27 Jan We’d be lying if we said we weren’t itching to see Rents, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie on the big screen once m... Read more »