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 ReleasesOur Ladies
Hollywood veteran Michael Caton-Jones returns to Scotland with a pleasingly rambunctious take on Alan Warner's cult 90s novel about the misadventures of six catholic school girls let loose in Edinburgh Read more »| 26 Jul 2021 -
New ReleasesThe Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Checking in with Björn Andrésen, the disarmingly beautiful 15-year-old star of Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is an illuminating look at a second act lost beyond one film’s shattering impact Read more »| 22 Jul 2021 -
InterviewsThe Most Beautiful Boy in the World: 50 years later
In 1971, 15-year-old Björn Andrésen became a symbol of youthful beauty after starring in Luchino Visconti’s Death In Venice. Filmmakers Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri tell us why they wanted to tell Andrésen's full story five decades later Read more »| 22 Jul 2021 -
New ReleasesThe Sparks Brothers
Edgar Wright's love letter to Sparks sparkles when its use of archive footage lets the duo's talent speak for itself, but elsewhere this exhaustive, linear documentary feels like a screen adaptation of the band's Wikipedia page Read more »| 20 Jul 2021 -
New ReleasesThe Witches of the Orient
Japan's world-conquering women’s volleyball team of the 1960s is celebrated in this sparky documentary that's colourful, retro fun but never quite gets under the skin of these fascinating sportswomen Read more »| 12 Jul 2021 -
InterviewsQuentin Dupieux on Deerskin
If you're a child of the 90s, you'll remember throbbing techno track Flat Beat from Quentin Dupieux (aka Mr. Oizo). Dupieux now spends most of his time making twisted comedies, and his latest, Deerskin, follows a middle-aged man obsessed with a jacket Read more »| 12 Jul 2021
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FestivalsEIFF 2021 will close with Billy Crystal comedy
The Edinburgh Film Festival will come to a close with a few laughs this year with Here Today, the new comedy written, directed by and starring the legendary Billy Crystal Read more »| 09 Jul 2021 -
New ReleasesJumbo
Zoé Wittock's debut feature film Jumbo is a classic 'girl meets carnival ride, girl falls in love with carnival ride' story Read more »| 06 Jul 2021 -
FestivalsEIFF plan outdoor festival by the Firth of Forth
Edinburgh International Film Festival will return to in-person screenings with a weekend of aquatically-themed films, from Jaws to Titanic, screening on the banks of the Firth of Forth Read more »| 01 Jul 2021 -
InterviewsThomas Vinterberg on Another Round and Mads Mikkelsen
Thomas Vinterberg returns with boozy new drama Another Round. The great Danish director discusses his country's binge drinking culture, why some of our greatest leaders are massive pissheads and the brilliance of Mads Mikkelsen Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
New ReleasesAnother Round
Four Copenhagen high-school teachers – one played by Mads Mikkelsen – try to escape their existential lethargy through a sustained alcoholic buzz in this compassionate study of everyday life from Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
New ReleasesFreaky
Imagine if Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees had their hulking bodies switched with their petite teen victims. That's the delicious premise of this body-swap horror-comedy from the director of Happy Death Day Read more »| 21 Jun 2021 -
InterviewsBen Wheatley on pandemic-shot horror In the Earth
Ben Wheatley is so prolific, it's no surprise he's managed to write and shoot a film during the COVID pandemic. He fills us in on the production of In the Earth ahead of its UK release Read more »| 16 Jun 2021 -
New ReleasesIn The Earth
Ben Wheatley delivers one of the first satisfying films made in the COVID-era in this resourceful microbudget folk horror imbued with expansive wilderness and lockdown claustrophobia Read more »| 15 Jun 2021 -
InterviewsEmma Seligman on chaotic black comedy Shiva Baby
Writer-director Emma Seligman talks us through Shiva Baby, her wickedly funny debut feature about a young woman trying to navigate her queer, sexual and Jewish identities Read more »| 07 Jun 2021