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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New ReleasesRare Beasts
Writer-director Billie Piper shows plenty of storytelling skill with her debut feature Rare Beasts, but its boundless energy can be exhausting Read more »| 17 May 2021 -
OpinionBack to Black: A look ahead to Scottish cinemas reopening
As cinemas across Scotland prepare to return, we speak to three of the country's best independent cinemas to find out how they've been weathering the COVID storm and what they're most looking forward to screening once they reopen Read more »| 03 May 2021 -
New ReleasesNomadland
Frances McDormand takes to the road in director Chloé Zhao's evocative adaptation of Jessica Bruder's book Read more »| 13 Apr 2021 -
FestivalsFemspectives returns online for 2021
Femspectives, the annual Glasgow-based feminist film festival, is back with a virtual edition. Among the highlights are the 50th feature by renowned documentary maker Alanis Obomsawin and sci-fi tinged Georgian drama Comets Read more »| 12 Apr 2021 -
InterviewsDuncan Cowles on Scary Adult Things
Duncan Cowles – long one of Scottish short film's most exciting talents – takes his brand of skew-whiff documentary to BBC Scotland with his first TV series, Scary Adult Things Read more »| 08 Apr 2021 -
New ReleasesSequin in a Blue Room
A gay 16-year-old lad with a passion for anonymous one night stands gets in hot water when one conquest doesn't take kindly to being pushed aside Read more »| 06 Apr 2021
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FestivalsIberoDocs' 8th edition celebrates Art as a Need
IberoDocs returns with an online edition of the festival celebrating Ibero-American culture, with a programme of over twenty documentaries, filmmaker Q&As and a virtual exhibition Read more »| 30 Mar 2021 -
OpinionNomadland and the American Myth
At last, Oscars frontrunner Nomadland becomes available to UK film fans. We consider the ways in which the film explores the American mythos of work as liberation while offering an alternative way of life outside the shadow of capitalism Read more »| 29 Mar 2021 -
Dvd ReviewsI Was at Home, But...
The great German filmmaker Angela Schanelec returns with another formally dazzling, deeply emotional work Read more »| 26 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesSound of Metal
Darius Marder's directorial debut is a powerful depiction of deafness and Deaf culture, anchored by a searing performance from Riz Ahmed Read more »| 24 Mar 2021 -
FestivalsBerlinale 2021: Magic and Reality Collide
The best films at this year's Berlinale traded in fairy tale and fable, but the titles that seemed to get Film Twitter and the Berlinale jury most excited were in-your-face works offering a mirror on the ills of society Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
InterviewsShort Circuit: Glasgow Short Film Festival interview
Get the lowdown on Glasgow Short Film Festival's second online edition. They tell us what they've learned after a year of digital festivals and give us some hints about this year's event, which includes dogs and dance but absolutely no Zoom-based dramas Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival announce 2021 programme
Scotland’s premier short film celebration returns with new programmes and old favourites. Some films directly address the strange times we're living in, while others feature cool dogs and reminisce about messy nights out Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
FestivalsFrench Film Festival brings more films online
French Film Festival UK bring us a sequel to their COVID-curtailed 2020 edition, with some of the most anticipated films from last year available online Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FestivalsHippodrome Silent Film Festival goes online for 2021
HippFest takes its tenth edition online, with films featuring silent-era icons like Marlene Dietrich, Louise Brooks and Rudolph Valentino, and music from the likes of jazz composer Wycliffe Gordon, the Graves Brothers and HippFest fave Neil Brand Read more »| 08 Mar 2021