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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Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Life in a Fishbowl
Icelandic ensemble drama Life in a Fishbowl follows three wildly different people, whose lives (and double lives) intersect in strange ways, exploring the ro... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Big Country: Aaron Katz on Iceland road movie Land Ho!
Aaron Katz swaps the aimless 20-somethings of his earlier films for a pair of 60-somethings, who turn out to be similarly directionless, in his joyous comedy Land Ho! Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
Videos
William McIlvanney talks about his life as a writer at Glasgow Film Festival 2015
William McIlvanney provided a classic Glasgow Film Festival Q&A following the premiere of Maurice O’Brien’s Living with Words, which profiles... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
Videos
A glimpse of the Cat Video Festival at Glasgow Film Festival 2015
Who can resist a good cat video? Not many of you apparently, judging by the emphatic turnout at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art on 21 Feb for the UK pre... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
CineDaily – 23 Feb: Mommy, William McIlvanney, today's reviews and more
Who needs the Oscars? So, now that the Oscars are over everyone can start getting excited about the real highlight of the awards season: the CineSkinny awar... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Spring
The sophomore feature from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Spring is a body horror tale for the hopeless romantic.Stuck in a personal tailspin af... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015
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Dvd Reviews
Pictures of the Old World
Dušan Hanák’s award-winning documentary, available with English subtitles for the first time, examines the lives of elderly villagers in ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff would go on to chalk up major hits with the likes of First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's, but it's this rarely seen gem from 1971 that stands as... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Wild River
Elia Kazan didn’t want Montgomery Clift for Wild River – even delaying in the hope of luring Brando – but the troubled star gives a mo... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
Videos
Alan Rickman brings A Little Chaos to Glasgow Film Festival
Legendary thespian Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Galaxy Quest) returns to movie directing after a 17 year hiatus (evidently Harry Potter has been keeping him very ... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
Videos
Cliff Curtis discusses triumphant biopic The Dark Horse at Glasgow Film Festival
New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis, best known for his roles in Whale Rider and Once Were Warriors, is a commanding presence in The Dark Horse, which tells the t... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
CineDaily – 22 Feb: Altman, Phoenix, White God, today's reviews and more
Fright Night “I’ve got a little secret to tell you,” says Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allison Gardner in her introduction to teen we... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Rosewater
Absurdity is Jon Stewart's weapon of choice in his directorial debut, Rosewater. It recounts the ordeals of London-based Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari (Be... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
Interviews
Dreaming Bigger, Screaming Louder: Xavier Dolan on Mommy
Québécois firecracker Xavier Dolan says he sees cinema as revenge against the mundanities of everyday life. With his brilliant new melodrama Mommy, that revenge is served piping hot Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
Cineskinny
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Stray Dog
Ronnie 'Stray Dog' Hall caught director Debra Granik's eye while playing a minor role in her acclaimed Winter's Bone, and it's easy to see why she kept watch... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015