Film and TV

Actress Tilda Swinton. Picture: Marc Piasecki

Tilda Swinton: 'Invaluable' Filmhouse should not be sold to highest bidder

Protesters gathered outside the boarded-up cinema on Sunday to call for the Filmhouse to be saved and not sold for a pub. Picture: Annabelle Gauntlett.

Edinburgh Filmhouse: SNP demands building reopens as art house cinema

If you're looking for bingeable true crime shows, Netflix is the best to be. Cr: Netflix

Here are the best true crime TV shows released on Netflix in the last 12 months

Here are the 15 best Korean dramas currently streaming on Netflix UK. Cr: Netflix

These are 15 of the most highly ranked Korean dramas TV series on Netflix 2023

Lance Reddick, star of The Wire and John Wick franchise, has died at the age of 60, his representatives have confirmed.

The Wire and John Wick actor Lance Reddick dies at the age of 60

Actress Meg Bellamy, who plays Kate Middleton, and actor Ed McVey, who plays the part of Prince William, film scenes for the next season of The Crown in St Andrews in

13 pictures as The Crown stars spotted filming together as William and Kate

Bob Geldof with Paula Yates in 1985

Paula Yates: “I was born to stand at the side of a stadium”

Gary Lineker, who will return to TV screens to present live coverage of the FA Cup quarter-final between Manchester City and Burnley on Saturday.

Gary Lineker will not host Match of the Day this weekend - here's why

Pro-independence campaigners from the All Under One Banner group demonstrate outside BBC Scotland's headquarters last November. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Analysis: Will the BBC’s impartiality crisis cost it dearly in Scotland?

Conor McCarron, star of BBC Scotland's Dog Days, at the premier at Glasgow Film Festival, March 2023. Pic: Amy Muir

Neds actor Conor McCarron - from Batgirl to busking for BBC's Dog Days

An image from romantic comedy film Gregory’s Girl was projected onto the Filmhouse in Edinburgh as part of the campaign to save it

Businessman reveals eleventh-hour bid to reopen Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema

Actor Ed McVey, who plays the part of Prince William, on set in between filming scenes at the harbour for the next season of The Crown in St Andrews

14 pictures as The Crown actor Ed McVey spotted jogging through St Andrews

Here are 8 of the best releases on Netflix this week. Cr: Netflix.

Here are 8 of the best new release series and films on Netflix this week

Is 2023 due to be Netflix's best year for true crime? Netflix

Here are 8 true crime series we recommend you stream on Netflix

Actor Richard Rankin. Picture: Robert Perry

Outlander star cast as John Rebus for detective’s TV reboot

Ed McVey, playing the part of Prince William and Dominic West playing the part of Prince of Wales as they film scenes for the next season of The Crown in St Andrews, Scotland.

12 pictures of The Crown filming in Scotland

Allison Gardner has been co-director of the Glasgow Film Festival since 2007. Picture: Eoin Carey

Glasgow Film Festival issues plea for ‘serious investment’ in event

An image from romantic comedy film Gregory’s Girl was projected onto the Filmhouse in Edinburgh after its sudden closure. Picture: Jane Barlow

Edinburgh pub company pulls plug on Filmhouse takeover as rescue effort emerges

Double Oscar winner Tom Hanks added two Golden Rasperry Awards to his trophy cabinet courtesy of his performance as Colonel Tom Parker in Buz Luhrman's Elvis.

The worst films and actors of the year according to the Razzies

Everything you need to know about Ted Lasso Season 3

Who did our readers chose as Scotland's best ever actor?

Here are the 10 best Scottish actors of all time - according to Scotsman readers

Tim Davie, the under-fire director general of the BBC (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Lineker migration bill row exposes BBC's farcical attempts to be 'impartial'

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 02: Lewis Capaldi is set to get a behind-the-scenes documentary charting his meteoric rise on Netflix. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

Here's when you can see Lewis Calpaldi's behind-the-scenes Netflix documentary

Maya Jama will host the final of Love Island 2023 (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Love Island: Here is who won the popular reality show as series comes to an end

Gary Lineker is set to return to the BBC's Match of the Day (Picture: Marc Atkins/Getty Images)

It’s Gary Lineker 1, BBC 0 (and a red card for 'stop the boats') – Aidan Smith

BBC chairman Richard Sharp (left) and director-general Tim Davie (Picture: House of Commons/PA)

BBC chair and director-general are now hopelessly compromised – Scotsman comment

US production sound mixer Mark Wingarten, British sound editor James H Mather, US musical composer Al Nelson, British sound engineer Chris Burdon and British sound engineer Mark Taylorn were honoured with the Oscar for best sound for their work on Top Gun: Maverick. Picture: Frederic J. Brown / AFP

Oscars glory for Scottish sound expert who worked on new Top Gun blockbuster

Fiona Bruce has stepped back as an ambassador of domestic abuse charity Refuge following claims she had trivialised domestic violence during a discussion about Stanley Johnson on Question Time.

Fiona Bruce to stand down from her ambassador role for Refuge

Gary Lineker is set to return to Match of the Day this weekend following disruption across the BBC Sport schedules.

Gary Lineker to return to Match of the Day this weekend after BBC deal reached

Hollywood heavyweights descended on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles ahead of the 95th Academy Awards.

31 pictures from the Oscars red carpet and Vanity Fair Oscar Party

Everything Everywhere All At Once was the big winner at this year's Academy Awards.

Everything you need to know about watching Everything Everywhere All at Once

It was a full circle moment for Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan who celebrated together on stage at the Oscars, 39 years since a 12-year-old Quan starred alongside the veteran actor in Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom.

Watch: Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan share moving moment at The Oscars

Michelle Yeoh made history at the 95th Oscars as Everything Everywhere All At Once took home a clutch of major awards.

Michelle Yeoh makes Oscars history as Everything Everywhere All At Once triumphs

Here are the latest odds for the Best Actor award at the Oscars 2023: Cr: Getty Images

Oscars 2023: Who is the favourite to win Best Actor at the Academy Awards?

Here are the latest odds for Best Actress at the Oscars 2023: (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Best Actress Nominees 2023: Who is favourite to win Best Actress at the Oscars

Who will take the award for Best Director at the Oscars 2023? (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Oscars 2023: Who is favourite to win Best Director at the Academy Awards 2023?

Who will lift the Oscars at this years 95th Academy Awards? (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Oscars 2023: When do the Oscars start? Is the Oscars on TV tonight?

Felix Kammerer is the 27-year-old Austrain actor who plays Paul Bäumer, a schoolboy who finds himself in the trenches at the height of World War One. Pic: Netflix

What Tom Cruise said to Scottish Oscar-nominated film maker Lesley Paterson

5Live, Final Score, Football Focus and Match of the Day have all been impacted

RECAP: BC issue apology over weekend schedule

Alex Scott and other pundits have pulled out of presenting the Football Focus and Final Score programmes

Alex Scott and others pull out of presenting Football Focus

The BBC has “undermined its own credibility” by taking Gary Lineker off air, a former director-general of the corporation has said as the fallout from an impartiality row continues.

BBC has ‘undermined own credibility’ in Lineker row – former director-general

Who has already cemented themselves into Oscars history? (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP) (Photo by NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images)

Here are the actors and directors who have won the most Oscars of all time

The BBC has defended Fiona Bruce in a statement amid accusations she trivialised domestic abuse during a discussion about Stanley Johnson on BBC Question Time.

BBC defends Fiona Bruce amid claims BBC QT host ‘trivialised domestic abuse’

The BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash according to reports in The Guardian

BBC denies episode of David Attenborough series pulled over fear of backlash

Idris Elba in Luther: The Fallen Sun.

George Michael was gay, not out, worried what it would do to his mum

Crime writer Denise Mina.

Denise Mina's Alex Morrow books to become new Scottish TV detective drama

Be warned - your four-legged friend may not like what happens to the canine lead in many of these films.

The 10 saddest dog movies of all time

Plenty of Scots have been nominated for Oscars over the years.

16 Scots who have won or been nominated for an Academy Award

An image from romantic comedy film Gregory’s Girl was projected onto the Filmhouse in Edinburgh after its sudden closure. Picture: Jane Barlow

Council chiefs in the dark over identity of frontrunner for Filmhouse takeover

Lead actors Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal with Charlotte Wells, the writer and director of Aftersun, which opened last year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. Picture: Getty/Euan Cherry

Edinburgh International Film Festival to return as part of one-off EIF edition

Ghostface is back - and he's reportedly scarier than ever. Cr: Paramount

Scream 6: Here is when 'most brutal' Scream movie is launched in UK cinemas

Metallica's eagerly-awaited new album will be out in April.

All the Scottish Metallica listening parties for new album 72 Seasons

Here is who Scotsman readers voted as Scotland's best ever actresses.

Here are the 10 best Scottish actresses ever - as per our readers

Daisy Jones & The Six follows the adventures of a fictional American rock band.

Everything you need to know about Daisy Jones & The Six

Abby Cook who has been announced as the 42nd Blue Peter presenter. Picture: BBC/PA Wire

Scottish wheelchair racer Abby Cook announced as new Blue Peter presenter

Scottish actor Brian Cox will once again play patriarch Logan Roy in Season 4 of Succession.

Everything you need to know about Succession Season 4

During the annual awards show in March of this year, Smith stormed the stage and slapped Chris Rock after comments the comedian made about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

Chris Rock: 'I took Will Smith’s slap like Manny Pacquiao'

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Now TV: How to watch Now TV on my TV, how much does it cost

With a grim smile, Sanjeev Bhaskar welcomes Sinead Keenan to Unforgotten.

Unforgotten couldn't repeat the good cop-good cop formula - and it hasn't

Déborah Lukumuena and Le’Shantey Bonsu in Girl

Glasgow Film Festival reviews: Girl | The Beasts | Butcher’s Crossing

Elizabeth Banks attends the Los Angeles premiere of Universal Pictures' "Cocaine Bear" at Regal LA Live on February 21, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Cocaine Bear review plus the worst Oscar winners ever - Scotsman Film Podcast

Sam Heughan has plenty to say about his Scottish upbringing.

10 things Outlander star Sam Heughan has said about growing up in Scotland

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Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol has been linked to a 13% drop in deaths from alcohol consumption, according to a study. Jane Barlow/PA Wire.

MUP led to 150 fewer alcohol deaths a year, researchers claim

SNP candidate Ash Regan. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

SNP rejects call to allow members to change their vote in leadership race

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon answers questions from the floor after delivering a speech to the RSA Fellowship in her final public event as Scottish First Minister. Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon tells SNP it must not "throw the baby out with the bathwater"