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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

After much deliberation, here are the crisps that we've chosen to accompany us on a desert island – because obvs the best way to conquer dehydrati... Read more »

Canons – like cannons – can be dangerous. They boil artists’ oeuvres down to easily digestible chunks, leaving the non-canonical titles out... Read more »

24 City (2008) Dir: Jia Zhangke While many of Jia Zhangke’s modern classics have managed to provoke the Chinese ruling party, 24 City pissed off... Read more »

Beyond the Lights Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood Why it's one of our overlooked movies of 2015: it went straight to DVD in the UK In a more sensible film cul... 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 »

Is there a filmmaker who’s been more misrepresented by film culture than Martin Scorsese? Perceived wisdom tells us he’s cinema’s great amb... Read more »

John Wick Chapter 2 Dir. Chad Stahelski  John Wick 2 will never not be underrated, even by the people who thoroughly enjoyed it. Underneath an extra... 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 »