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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 »

Inprint, The Warlocks + Evie Wyld | Top Events Northwest 13-20 Mar The Skinny | CyberZAP   THE W... Read more »

James Benning: People & Places We’ve been looking forward to the prospect of a James Benning season since it was hinted at by HOME’s ... Read more »

As the long summer nights slowly creep in, the pull to the cosy darkness of the cinema auditorium gets slightly less strong. That’s why the return of S... 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 »

Attending this year’s ¡Viva! Festival, Manchester’s annual celebration of Spanish and Latin American film, theatre and art, has been quite ... Read more »

CineFringe Founded in reaction to the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s move to June, leaving cinema largely unrepresented amongst the countless... Read more »

“One of the guiding philosophies for the festival has always been that we would bring the best of world cinema to Glasgow, and show the best of Scottis... Read more »

Dominic Berry Poet When I left school I had no idea what I was doing with my life besides the fact I hated every job I got and wanted to do 'something arty... Read more »

Mommy (Xavier Dolan) Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy, could be viewed as a companion piece to his debut I Killed My Mother, with a comparison betwe... Read more »

In the month that sees the start of spring (20 Mar if you’re interested in these things), Food News wouldn’t really be complete without a spot of... Read more »

CHEMIKAL SOLUTION: At time of going to press, the minds behind Glasgow recording institution Chem19 have just announced 'Engineering & Production in Prac... Read more »

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) 45 Years is a ghost story, but the spectre haunting Geoff and Kate (expertly played by Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling),... Read more »

Top Ten Events Scotland 25 Jul-1 Aug: Save Sighthill Stone Circle, Making News + Broadcast BBQ!       &nb... 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 »

Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) “I hate characters,” a woman states in Goodbye to Language, and it’s clear she is speaking on behalf... Read more »