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“GIRLS MEET JAZZ!!!” reads the Letterboxd logline for Shinobu Yaguchi’s 2004 film, Swing Girls. I tap on its poster: a schoolgirl holding a... Read more »

A girl with a titanium plate in her skull. Dancers pressing themselves against the bodies of automobiles, metal and flesh drenched seductively in neon light.... Read more »

The summer of 2019: the citizens of Hong Kong pour into the streets dressed in black, their faces hidden behind masks. Two million voices protest against the... Read more »

After Yang is a rare film – one that’s perfectly titled. Yang, played by a transcendently gentle Justin H. Min, is an android sibling purchased b... Read more »

If you’ve heard anything about Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or-winning Titane, it probably sounded a little insane. Dancer-slash-serial killer... Read more »

The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul are impossibly tender and beguilingly strange – reorienting the way we relate to the mundane, they heighten the ... Read more »

Motherhood is one of the cultural and institutional tenets of human existence – so what happens when this sanctified ideal turns ugly, twisting away fr... Read more »

In 2011, Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou found himself on an intercity bus in South Korea. His friend, a Korean adoptee who he’d met studying in P... Read more »

The Skinny Zap is levelling up! Every month, as well as the usual weekly events round-ups, we're sending out a subscriber-exclusive essay or interview. Expec... Read more »

“Your worst enemy is your body,” a nun tells a young Benedetta upon her arrival at a convent in Pescia. “Best not to feel too at home with ... Read more »

Fifty years ago, Edinburgh International Film Festival hosted its highly influential Women's Event. Helmed by revolutionary film theorists Laura Mu... Read more »

Many films attempt to answer one of the biggest, most existential questions we face: how on earth is there so much to look at in a supermarket? Aisles and ai... Read more »

‘Elsewhere’ is rooted in absence, a location defined by where it is not; a word in search of something, an orientation that anticipates displacem... Read more »

In November 2023, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was evacuating Gaza with his family through the Rafah border crossing when he was kidnapped by Israeli forc... Read more »

The Cineskinny is the film podcast from some of the team behind The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies.... Read more »

We feel like we write this every 12 months but: Take One Action, Scotland’s film festival dedicated to positive social change, feels more important tha... Read more »

The essential Take One Action returns for its 16th edition. It’s a smaller affair than in previous years, with in-person screenings limited to a five-d... Read more »

Edinburgh-based acid pop duo Maranta first revealed Microsteria at last year’s Hidden Door, and they're bringing the sonic and visual extravaganza back... Read more »

Festival vibes take over Leith this week with Pics n Mix, a three-day celebration of live music, cinema, theatre and conversation by the folks over at LeithL... Read more »

If you’re a film fan living in Scotland, you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to film festivals. Are you nuts for Japanese animation? Check ou... Read more »

Our Peripheral Visions season of free events at our new home in Codebase offer a chance to interact, explore and engage with the arts as the Edinburgh Festiv... Read more »

There was a point in the depths of the pandemic, somewhere between the shuttering of public spaces and the sudden emergence of Netflix Party on everyone&rsqu... Read more »

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum) The Bridesmaids team is back with a bang in this kaleidoscopic, sublimely silly and criminall... Read more »

1. Aftersun Dir. Charlotte Wells There is a sense throughout Aftersun of reaching and reaching, of brushing something vital with your fingertips only to ha... Read more »

20. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder) "Director Darius Marder has crafted a profound story about deafness, intimately exploring the nuances of hearing loss a... Read more »

Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019) Marketed as a sci-fi adventure starring Brad Pitt, Ad Astra was heralded as a masterpiece by some critics, but audie... Read more »

In our 2021 film of the Year poll, the Skinny’s Film Team collectively voted Céline Sciamma’s beguiling fairytale Petite Maman top of... Read more »

Collectively, our Film team voted Aftersun the film of the year. You can read a rundown of our full top ten here. If you’re looking for more idiosyncra... Read more »

Books Mount Florida BooksI love Mount Florida Books. Great books, great vibes, and did you know they reinvest their profits into Glasgow’s literary an... Read more »