Film Opinion
Opinion pieces from our film writers looking at key debates and discussions around films, directors, actors, and cinematic trends. Here you can also find insight to stay current with coverage of booming film festivals.
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Festivals10 Great Scottish Short Films from GSFF 2020
The 13th Glasgow Short Film Festival may have been downgraded to the “12th and a half edition”, but that didn't dampen the quality of the films. Particularly strong were the Scottish shorts – here are ten of our favourites Read more »| 07 Sep 2020 -
FestivalsStream Spirit: Scotland's Virtual Film Festivals
Cannes couldn't and EIFF effed off till later in the year, but some film festivals have embraced taking their programmes online after in-person events were kiboshed by COVID-19, including the upcoming Take One Action and SQIFF Read more »| 31 Aug 2020 -
FestivalsQuarantine Culture: Your At-Home Film Festival
It's just like a normal film festival, but you don't have to wear trousers – bunker down with our curated list of films to stream at home Read more »| 24 Mar 2020 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2020 round-up
Another packed Glasgow Film Festival came to a close last week, recording its largest audience yet with over 43,000 attendees. Films about a female astronaut preparing to leave earth and a care nurse communing with God were among the highlights Read more »| 10 Mar 2020 -
Tv RadioPsychokinesis: The Great Unwatched
In our search through some of the best oddities Netflix has to offer, a look at this Korean superhero movie in which a middle-aged security guard develops some surprising new abilities Read more »| 04 Mar 2020 -
Tv RadioGirlfriend's Day: The Great Unwatched
Bob Odenkirk is a greeting card writer embroiled in a Coens-esque web of violence and intrigue in Girlfriend's Day – we delve into the Netflix back catalogue to take a look Read more »| 04 Mar 2020
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FilmHow we watch movies in the age of streaming
Not a year goes by without some blowhard predicting the death of cinema, but in 2020, the dominance of streaming platforms is becoming hard to ignore. Join us at GFF to discuss how we watch films in the age of streaming Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
OpinionThe Beautiful Mundanity of Studio Ghibli
The celebration of the everyday in Studio Ghibli's films makes them the ideal animation studio for restorative home-watching Read more »| 31 Jan 2020 -
OpinionFive great "one-shot" films
Ahead of the release of Sam Mendes's 1917, a first world war film that appears to be shot in just one take, we consider the merits of some of cinema's other great "one-shot" wonders Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of the 2010s
This was a decade of upheaval and change in the film industry, but the films themselves were as strong as ever. New talent like Jordan Peele and Barry Jenkins emerged while masters like Claire Denis and Martin Scorsese were making some of their best work Read more »| 09 Jan 2020 -
OpinionMisunderstood Movies: 10 Overlooked Films from 2019
Audiences and critics didn't go crazy for double Will Smith in Ang Lee's latest high frame rate experiment, or the wild monster mash that was Godzilla: King of the Monsters, but we reckon they're among the criminally overlooked films of the year Read more »| 04 Dec 2019 -
Opinion2019 in Scottish Film, from Avengers to Beats
Blockbusters like Avengers and Fast and the Furious have helped make Scotland a major Hollywood shooting location, but the real story of Scottish cinema in 2019 is the diverse collection of distinctive and joyous homegrown indies lighting up our cinemas Read more »| 04 Dec 2019 -
OpinionAll change at EIFF as artistic director Mark Adams steps down
After five years, Mark Adams steps down from his role as artistic director of Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s an opportunity for a fresh start for a festival that’s in need of reinvention Read more »| 29 Nov 2019 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of 2019
A portrait of an artist as a young woman and an epic about some ageing gangsters top our films of the year poll. Elsewhere, there's the story of convicts in space, class tensions in a Cornwall fishing village and the reimaging of a Hollywood tragedy Read more »| 29 Nov 2019 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of 2019: Our Writers' Top 10s
We polled 20 of our film writers to find their ten favourite films of the year. Read their personal lists below Read more »| 29 Nov 2019