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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FestivalsA new Ghibli? The Dawn of Studio Ponoc
As a collection of shorts from Studio Ponoc heads to Edinburgh International Film Festival, we ask if the anime house can fill the void left by Studio Ghibli Read more »| 13 Jun 2019 -
Dvd ReviewsBlue Black Permanent
The BFI’s re-release of Margaret Tait’s Blue Black Permanent acts as a neat greatest-hits collection for the Scottish artist Read more »| 12 Jun 2019 -
News270-degree 'movie experience' coming to Edinburgh
Edinburgh's Cineworld at Fountain Park will be the first cinema to get its own 270-degree screens Read more »| 11 Jun 2019 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival: The stars coming to 2019's festival
Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss and Scottish star David Hayman join the already announced Icíar Bollaín, Timothy Spall, Danny Boyle and Jack Lowden Read more »| 11 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesWe the Animals
A raw coming-of-age tale bristling with the rage, freedom and fear of adolescence Read more »| 05 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesDiego Maradona
Using the same archive-footage approach as his other tortured icon docs Amy and Senna, Asif Kapadia digs into the legacy of Argentine football hero Diego Maradona, exploring how his skills on the pitch made the world blind to his various demons off it Read more »| 04 Jun 2019
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New ReleasesDirty God
Physical impact trumps psychological depth in a brutally honest acid attack drama with a surplus of style Read more »| 04 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesMa
Octavia Spencer keeps this trashy thriller watchable, but Ma is let down by its predictable plot and shallow script Read more »| 30 May 2019 -
New ReleasesGloria Bell
Sebastian Lelio's Gloria Bell is that most rare of things – a Hollywood remake of a foreign language film that's worthy of the original Read more »| 30 May 2019 -
FestivalsJamie Adams on Biffy Clyro and Balance, Not Symmetry
Glasgow-set Balance, Not Symmetry sees indie director Jamie Adams collaborate with Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro for a film about a young woman working through grief; we speak to Adams ahead of its People's Gala screening at Edinburgh Film Festival Read more »| 30 May 2019 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival announce 2019 programme
New films from Joanna Hogg, Jim Jarmusch and the late Agnes Varda are among EIFF's 2019 programme highlights, while Danny Boyle, Jack Lowden and Pollyanna McIntosh are some of the guests heading to town Read more »| 29 May 2019 -
Film EventsNora Ephron season coming to Glasgow Film Theatre
Glasgow Film Theatre crown the great writer-director Nora Ephron their latest CineMaster, with screenings of four of her peerless romantic comedies planned in June Read more »| 28 May 2019 -
FestivalsThe Best Films at Cannes Film Festival 2019
With another Cannes in the rearview mirror, we look back at the films that delighted us from this year's edition, including Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime and worthy Palme d’Or winner Parasite Read more »| 28 May 2019 -
FestivalsAu revoir, Agnès: EIFF's Agnès Varda retrospective
Edinburgh International Film Festival says goodbye to the great French filmmaker Agnès Varda with a season of her films, including her swansong Varda by Agnès, released only a few months before her death Read more »| 27 May 2019 -
New ReleasesCannes 2019: Parasite
The great Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho returns with a thrilling and moving satire concerned with two families at opposite ends of the social spectrum Read more »| 24 May 2019