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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OpinionWhat to Watch this Week (3-10 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the college cannibalism movie Raw, new Terence Davies joint A Quiet Passion and Netflix teen tragedy 13 Reasons Why Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
OpinionFive films to Brexit by
Worried about the UK's future post-Brexit? Never fear. Movies can show us the way Read more »| 30 Mar 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (27 Mar-2 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the live action Ghost in the Shell remake, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire and Rainer Werner Fassbinder masterpiece Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Festivals
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017: Best of the Fest
Another excellent edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival has been and gone. We look back at the highlights (a celebration of Charles Bukowski), the lowlights (some mediocre VR experiments) and the best of the international competition Read more »| 28 Mar 2017 -
Festivals
GSFF 2017: Five short film programmes not to miss
Glasgow Short Film Festival kicks off this week. Here are the special programmes we're most looking forward to... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week: 13-20 Mar
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Personal Shopper, Get Out and Netflix Iron Fist Read more »| 13 Mar 2017
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FestivalsGSFF 2017: Five Scottish short films not to miss
Glasgow Short Film Festival returns with another lively programme of short films, panel discussions and workshops. We focus in on the great homegrown shorts in the Scottish Short Film Competition Read more »| 10 Mar 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week: 6-12 March
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including The Love Witch, Elle and the second series of Netflix's Love Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2017: Best of the Fest
Our film team take a look back at this year's Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
OpinionThe Silencing of Seijun Suzuki
After the recent death of filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, aged 93, The Skinny looks back on the defining moment of the master provocateur's career: when he was sack... Read more »| 01 Mar 2017 -
Opinion
Oscars 2017: Predictions in the main categories
And the Oscar (should) go to... Read more »| 24 Feb 2017 -
Film
Way of the Gun: Cinema's most underrated shootouts
Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, we pay tribute to some of cinemas great, but under-appreciated, gun fights. Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
In Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Berlinale 2017: Beyond the Competition
We take a look at the rich but lesser known cinematic pleasures outside the main competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
O Canada: GFF celebrates New Canadian Cinema
Welcome to Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of New Canadian Cinema, the weirder but much more friendly neighbour of Hollywood Read more »| 17 Feb 2017