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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InterviewsAmalia Ulman on Magic Farm
Amalia Ulman’s visually striking culture clash comedy Magic Farm follows some inept journalists trying to make a film in a rural Argentine town. The artist and filmmaker discusses working with her idol (Chloë Sevigny) and finding beauty everywhere Read more »| 13 May 2025 -
InterviewsIndia Donaldson on Good One
India Donaldson's debut feature, Good One, is a striking portrait of a father-daughter relationship. She talks to us about girlhood, empathetic writing and the ‘man or bear’ debate her protagonist could’ve started Read more »| 13 May 2025 -
New ReleasesMagic Farm
A group of inept hipster filmmakers from New York descend on a small town in Argentina in this fanciful satire from Argentine-Spanish conceptual artist and film director Amalia Ulman Read more »| 12 May 2025 -
New ReleasesGood One
The shifting power dynamics on an awkward father-daughter camping trip sit at the heart of Good One, a compelling indie drama from India Donaldson Read more »| 12 May 2025 -
FestivalsBen Wheatley's BULK to world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival
Ben Wheatley's new film BULK will open Edinburgh International Film Festival's Midnight Madness strand this year. We're told to expect "car chases, gun fights, sci-fi and romance" Read more »| 09 May 2025 -
NewsEdinburgh Film Festival reveals 2025 opening film
The 2025 edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will kick off with Sorry, Baby, the offbeat comedy-drama from director Eva Victor Read more »| 06 May 2025
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OpinionThe sins of streamers and the lost treasures of DVDs
As DVDs turn 30 this year, we lament their scarceness in 2025’s hostile streaming environment and the rich possibilities they held Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
InterviewsKarim Aïnouz on Motel Destino
Motel Destino is a steamy neo-noir in which a young man hides out at a roadside motel, only to find more danger when he gets romantically entangled with the woman who manages the establishment with her volatile husband. Director Karim Aïnouz tells us more Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
New ReleasesMotel Destino
Steamy Brazilian noir Motel Destino is at its best when exploring its characters' carnal desires, but gets tripped up by its loose plotting that can feel anticlimactic Read more »| 05 May 2025 -
New ReleasesRiefenstahl
Andres Veiel's collage digging into the life and legacy of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is a dense burrowing into the psyche of one of cinema’s most fractious figures Read more »| 05 May 2025 -
New ReleasesThe Surfer
Low on gloom, high on doom, paradise is lost in this hauntingly bright Ozploitation psychological thriller starring Nicolas Cage Read more »| 05 May 2025 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: May 2025
May's cinema highlights include three great film festivals (Alchemy, Falastine and Folk Film Gathering) plus GFT's 51st birthday and the Cameo showing some David Lynch love Read more »| 29 Apr 2025 -
FestivalsFalastin Film Festival returns for 2025
Falastin Film Festival, the new and urgent Palestinian film festival in Scotland, returns for its second edition with an expanded programme. We look at how the event goes beyond passive film watching to foster a space of learning, solidarity and action Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
FestivalsSpring Breakers: Five Great Scottish Film Festivals
There's a glut of great film festivals happening in Scotland this spring, covering a myriad of subjects and forms. We look forward to five of them Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
InterviewsCorin Sworn on new film On Weaving
As part of their residency at Alchemy Film and Arts, artists Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn have made On Weaving, a film considering the legacies of textile artists Bernat and Margaret Klein through the lens of their modernist home. Sworn tells us more Read more »| 25 Apr 2025