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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OpinionToy Story 4's trailer promises a franchise remix with even more dread
The latest addition to the Toy Story saga is a redux of the first three films with some added existentialism Read more »| 20 Mar 2019 -
FestivalsThe best of Glasgow Film Festival 2019: Our Picks
Our writers look back at their highlights from the Glasgow Film Festival, with favorite films including a Nordic fantasy, an Indian action comedy, and music films about the Soviet rock movement and 90s rave culture in West Lothian Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Final Oscar Predictions
Who will win, who should win and who should have been nominated? Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
OpinionBo Burnham and the Changing Face of Internet Comedy
As Bo Burnham's debut feature film Eighth Grade hits cinemas, we look at how Burnham's comedy has evolved alongside changes in web comedy and the ways in which we interact with the internet Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
FilmMay Ya!: In praise of Elaine May
The four feature films by Elaine May are among the finest in American cinema, but the poor distribution of the first three and financial failure of the fourth means they're still little seen. Praise be then for GFF's heaven-sent Elaine May retrospective Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
FilmThe Matrix turns 20 and technology is still to be feared
With your personal data being sold wholesale and election tampering from afar, there's never been a better time to reappraise the pop philosophy and cyberpunk kung fu of The Matrix Read more »| 15 Feb 2019
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FilmPrivate Dicks: Under the Silver Lake and film noir
Under the Silver Lake is David Robert Mitchell's shaggy riff on the film noir, but it's hardly the first film to play with the codes of the private detective movie. Here are cinema's other feckless sleuths Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
SexualityRom-Coms As A Dating Guide for a Young Gay Man
A writer explores how the leading ladies of rom-coms became his guide for dating as a young gay man Read more »| 14 Feb 2019 -
OpinionBohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite and LGBTQ+ portrayals
Two films with queer protagonists – Bohemian Rhapsody and The Favourite – are in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars and Bafta awards. Only one, however, treats their character's sexuality with both the casualness and respect they deserve Read more »| 08 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsTen Best Films to Seek Out at Berlinale 2019
With over 400 films in its programme, Berlin International Film Festival is, as ever, sure to be full of surprises and discoveries. Ahead of the festival kicking off tonight, here are the ten films that have initially caught our eye Read more »| 07 Feb 2019 -
Festivals15 to seek out at Glasgow Film Festival 2019
Glasgow Film Festival returns with another sparkling lineup. Here are 15 titles that have caught our eye, from Alice Rohrwacher's Happy as Lazzaro and Scottish closing film Beats, to coming-of-age film Eighth Grade and the offbeat Thunder Road Read more »| 01 Feb 2019 -
OpinionThe 25 must-see films of 2019
From Claire Denis' elliptical sci-fi High Life to Martin Scorsese's reunion with Robert De Niro in The Irishman via Bill Murray/Jim Jarmusch zombie movie The Dead Don't Die, these are our most anticipated films of 2019 Read more »| 08 Jan 2019 -
OpinionFilms of 2018: The criminally overlooked movies
These are the films that didn't set the box office alight but should have, the movies that critics roundly ignored, and the films that won't be in conversations come awards season. In other words: these are the year's most overlooked movies Read more »| 11 Dec 2018 -
OpinionFilm writers' individual top tens of the year 2018
Our Film writers' personal picks of the best of 2018. Among consensus faves like Phantom Thread and Lady Bird you'll find titles like screwball comedy Game Night, Pixar animation Coco and four-hour Chinese epic An Elephant Sitting Still Read more »| 07 Dec 2018 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018
Films about an obsessive dressmaker, a traumatised hitman, a rebellious high school girl, a wayward priest and a group of criminal widows are just some of the works of cinema that have dazzled, thrilled and moved us in 2018 Read more »| 07 Dec 2018