"The script just became super gay and pushed me out of my comfort zone."
Playwright James Ley discusses his debut short film SLEAZY TIGER ahead of it competing at @glasgowshort.bsky.social – read @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social's interview
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/intervi... @jley.bsky.social
Glasgow Short Film Festival is back; @glasgowshort.bsky.social's Scottish Competition includes new films by Miranda Stern, Duncan Cowles, Will Anderson and Leyla Coll-O'Reilly among others...
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gs... [by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts is closing...
www.theskinny.co.uk/art/news/gla... [story by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
Some heartbreaking news coming out of Glasgow. The CCA has gone into liquidation and will close with immediate effect. Full story here www.theskinny.co.uk/art/news/gla...
The lineup of films out in February is insane. Sirat, The Secret Agent, Wuthering Heights, If I Had Legs.., Twinless, The President’s Cake, The Testament Of Ann Lee, The Moment and more. Why do UK distributors do this all the time? Droughts followed by the award season flood? Must drive cinemas nuts
The @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social programme was revealed this morning. Tonnes to dig into, from big-name auteurs (Jarmusch, Van Sant) to famous faces (Dafoe, Jolie, Charli xcx!!!) via some amazing homegrown talent. Here are some highlights www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gl...
The Glasgow International Comedy Festival returns this March – the programme is a mix of big names, local legends, and some of our favourite #edfringe shows from 2025
www.theskinny.co.uk/comedy/guide...
From the grind of poverty to the perfection of porridge via samurai and swearing, read film editor @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social's write-up of Scottish film in 2025
It's freezing out, so get to the cinema. Here are my Scotland film event highlights for January:
• Filmhouse and GFT celebrate the French New Wave
• The Goethe Institute presents Fokus
• Ben Wheatley takes BULK on tour
• new film night DV8 Film Club and more...
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/film-ev...
We recap another year in Scottish film – reflections from fine folk at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social @glasgowshort.bsky.social @takeoneaction.bsky.social and more...
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion... [by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
As is now tradition, I asked a bunch of the programmers and film exhibitors putting work on in Scotland for their highlights of the year, their favourite films of 2025 and their hopes for 2026. Thank you for all your thoughtful answers. Everyone else, have a read www.theskinny.co.uk/film/opinion...
It's always kind of worrying when you look up a film festival and there's more information about the person who curated it than the actual films themselves. We get a lot of this in the visual arts scene already. Can these narcissists please stay out of the film world?
A fresh episode of @thecineskinny.bsky.social out now: Peter and @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social talk through PILLION, WAKE UP DEAD MAN + various Poirot-adjacent whodunnits.
Oh, and Tubi. Surprising amount of Tubi chat.
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/6kJV...
APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
ON FALLING and THE OUTRUN deservedly split the big categories at the @baftascotland.bsky.social awards in Glasgow – @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social with the details of some of the night's main awards...
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/ba...
The first films for @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social have been revealed – there's a Swedish cinema focus, and the retrospective theme is 'Truth to Power' (Strangelove! Brockovich! Battle of Algiers!)
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/gl... @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
The long-running and much-loved French Film Festival UK has an exceptional lineup this year. Over 60 films screen at over 40 different locations across the UK – @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social suggests five films to seek out
A Julia Ducournau season at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social
@takeoneaction.bsky.social's Dundee leg at @dcadundee.bsky.social
a Ryan Gilbey Q&A at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social
info on all those + a bunch of other good stuff, via @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social 👇
David Mackenzie is back with the sharp and twisty Relay – we catch up with Scotland's most prolific filmmaker to discuss his success in the States, his channelling of 70s paranoid thrillers, and why he tries to avoid repeating himself
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/intervi... by @JamieDunnEsq.bsky.social
URCHIN follows Frank Dillane as a young man on the streets of London with no safety net – we caught up with Frank to talk through the film, and working with director and fellow actor Harris Dickinson
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/intervi... @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social
@jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
Glasgow Youth Film Festival returns to @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social this month with a programme that's fierce, fun and a little subversive – our preview, by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/uk... #GYFF25
Tomorrow night, Sophie Dupuis brings Solo, her glittering drama about a young drag queen in Montreal, to
@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social. Sophie will also be sticking around for a Q&A with me after the film. Doors at 5.30pm. Tickets here www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/solo-qa/
Beach walks, wild swimming, fantastic films directed by women – welcome to Sea Change, the Tiree film festival returning next week
www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/uk... [by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
Abdolreza Kahani picks up the top prize at this year's #EdFilmFest for his new film Mortician – @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social recaps this year's competition winners...
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/ir...
Be sure to check out this revival of Silent Scream at EIFF. Embarrassed to say the film was new to me, but it blew me away when I watched it for this interview. I'm amazed we don't shout about it more in Scotland. It's screening in honour of the late, great Paddy Higson
He sold his DS and his Wii at 14 to buy his first camera; at 25, he's won the Best Director prize at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – we talk to Out of Love director Nathan Ambrosioni
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/intervi... #kviff @JamieDunnEsq.bsky.social
ICYMI, #TakeMeSomewhere returns to Glasgow this October; here's an early look at the programme for the theatre and performance fest, via @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social
www.theskinny.co.uk/theatre/show...
Ahead of EIFF kicking off in a couple of weeks, here are some of the films I'm looking forward to www.theskinny.co.uk/film/film-ev...
Call My Agent's Camille Cottin is superb in OUT OF LOVE, a nuanced family drama from wise-beyond-his-years director Nathan Ambrosioni
www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel... [review by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
The Edinburgh Film Festival programme is here – 18 world premieres, a bag of retrospectives, some new venues, and a bumper programme, as @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social explains
www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/uk...
