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 ReleasesThe Souvenir
Joanna Hogg mines her formative years as a film student in 80s London in the painfully intimate The Souvenir, which centres on a delicately vulnerable performance by Honor Swinton Byrne. You won't want it to end Read more »| 21 Aug 2019 -
FestivalsTake One Action Film Festival reveals 2019 programme
The festival focused on global change unveils a lineup that includes 20 feature films as well as shorts, masterclasses, workshop and community events Read more »| 14 Aug 2019 -
FestivalsGlasgow Youth Film Festival announce 2019 programme
Glasgow Film’s teen programmers are back with another zesty programme blending brand-new films with some modern classics Read more »| 13 Aug 2019 -
Dvd ReviewsDomino
Domino has been cut to shreds, but still contains a few set pieces that make it worth your time. Release the De Palma cut! Read more »| 06 Aug 2019 -
NewsKen Loach's new film to close Take One Action 2019
Take One Action 2019 will close with Sorry We Missed You, the latest film from Ken Loach, and will open with Push, a doc concerned with the worldwide crisis in affordable housing Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
Film EventsThe Best Film Events in Scotland in August
The Scottish film events you should make time for this month; from a Spike Lee season to some eccentric cinema at Matchbox Cineclub's Weird Weekend Read more »| 01 Aug 2019
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NewsWatch the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci all appear in the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's gangster film The Irishman, which looks epic Read more »| 31 Jul 2019 -
NewsRobert Pattinson fights an octopus in the first trailer from The Lighthouse
The Witch director Robert Eggers returns with The Lighthouse, a wild-looking two-hander starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesAnimals
Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat play hedonistic party-girls in this prosaic, muddled dramedy from Sophie Hyde Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
NewsScotland gets its first Kung Fu Film Festival
Summerhall in Edinburgh will play host to a Kung Fu Film Festival featuring Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan classics, as well as two films from Stephen Chow Read more »| 16 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesThe Lion King
Jon Favreau’s photo-realistic remake of The Lion King is a gasp-inducing visual spectacle, but the magic of the original isn’t quite there Read more »| 15 Jul 2019 -
FestivalsKVIFF 2019: Jan-Ole Gerster on Lara
Talented German filmmaker Jan-Ole Gerster follows-up his arthouse hit Oh Boy with the tragicomic Lara, one of the big winners at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Read more »| 12 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesKVIFF 2019: The Lodge
The directors of Goodnight Mommy return with an enjoyably twisted psychological horror centred on an extraordinary performance by Riley Keough Read more »| 04 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesKnife + Heart
Knife + Heart is a vibrantly realised erotic thriller in which a mysterious killer is picking off young actors on the set of a gay porn film Read more »| 04 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesNever Look Away
Never Look Away is a decades-spanning saga about a German artist whose practice is shaped by the turbulent politics of his home nation during the mid-20th Century Read more »| 03 Jul 2019