Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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Interviews
Scotland on Screen: Jack Archer on Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Jack Archer’s documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend explores the friendship between Scotland’s greatest filmmaker and his lifelong companion Peter Jewell through interviews and Douglas's unseen 8mm home films. Archer tells us more Read more »| 16 Jan 2024 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival and GSFF team up to celebrate Bill Douglas
One of Scotland’s greatest filmmakers, Bill Douglas, will receive much love at the upcoming Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival, as GFF hosts new documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend while GSFF opens with some of Douglas's 8mm shorts Read more »| 16 Jan 2024 -
New Releases
The Holdovers
Director Alexander Payne balances emotional realism with retro fun and biting comedy as he teams up with Paul Giamatti once again Read more »| 15 Jan 2024 -
Opinion
Hold the Scotch: Poor Things, Lanthimos, Gray and Scotland
The prospect of Yorgos Lanthimos adapting Poor Things has been mouthwatering for Alasdair Gray fans. But by changing the setting from Glasgow to London, has the book's political message been lost? Read more »| 09 Jan 2024 -
New Releases
Poor Things
Alasdair Gray’s skew-whiff take on Frankenstein is brought to life with wit, passion and invention by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, while Emma Stone is a revelation as Poor Things' wide-eyed heroine Bella Read more »| 09 Jan 2024 -
New Releases
Scala!!!
The delightfully debauched Scala cinema in London receives loving tributes from the likes of John Waters and Adam Buxton Read more »| 02 Jan 2024
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Film Events
Scottish Film Events: January 2024
Fokus returns, GFT bring a bunch of guests to Glasgow for Q&As, and Cameo host a Jonathan Glazer season – here are January's best film events... Read more »| 22 Dec 2023 -
Festivals
Fokus, Films from Germany: 2024 preview
Fokus returns for an eighth edition with a sharply curated lineup of brand-new German films, recent highlights from some of Germany's best contemporary filmmakers and some little-seen gems made in the German Democratic Republic Read more »| 21 Dec 2023 -
New Releases
Priscilla
Sofia Coppola’s latest is a lucid sketch of a young woman's universal growing pains under extraordinary circumstances Read more »| 21 Dec 2023 -
New Releases
The Boy and the Heron
Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki returns for one last film that helps remind us what makes his beguiling brand of animation so special Read more »| 18 Dec 2023 -
Opinion
The Skinny's Films of 2023: Our Writers' Top 10s
Our film writers' personal top tens in 2023, plus honourable mentions, rereleases of the year and a few stinkers thrown in for good measure Read more »| 11 Dec 2023 -
New Releases
Godzilla Minus One
This Japanese sort-of prequel to the original Godzilla delivers jaw-dropping set pieces and characters you care about between the carnage Read more »| 11 Dec 2023 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival: Pop-up Screenings return in 2024
Glasgow Film Festival reveals the first programme details for its landmark 20th edition, including a bunch of pop-up screenings and their annual free morning retrospective Read more »| 08 Dec 2023 -
Opinion
The Skinny's Films of 2023
The best films of the year feature acts of protest and resistance, alongside work that reckons with horrors wreaked by abusers, narcissists and racists – which seems particularly apt for 2023... Read more »| 07 Dec 2023 -
Opinion
20 Underrated and Overlooked Films from 2023
We'll admit it. Critics (and audiences) often get it wrong. Plenty of great films this year have come and gone without fanfare. But don't write them off. The Skinny's Film Team choose 20 underrated titles that deserve your attention Read more »| 06 Dec 2023