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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Opinion
Glasgow Film Festival 2023: Ten unmissable films
From environmental dramas to playful documentaries, here are ten unmissable films at this year's Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 22 Feb 2023 -
Opinion
20 Underrated Films from 2022
Critical praise is great, but what about the weirdo films ignored by audiences, or the unfairly dismissed blockbusters? Here are twenty of the year's best Read more »| 13 Dec 2022 -
Opinion
Scotland on Screen: A Year in Scottish Film
A look back at the five best Scottish features from 2022, plus our favourite Scottish shorts Read more »| 13 Dec 2022 -
Opinion
The Skinny's Films of 2022: Our Writers' Top 10s
Our film writers' personal top tens of the year, plus honourable mentions, TV shows of the year and a few stinkers thrown in for good measure Read more »| 06 Dec 2022 -
Opinion
The Skinny's Films of 2022
A Scottish film tops The Skinny's films of the year for the first time, but Charlotte Wells' wonderful Aftersun required no home team advantage Read more »| 05 Dec 2022 -
Opinion
Rip It Up: Building a better screen sector
Glasgow Short Film Festival's Sanne Jehoul argues that we need to build a radical new model for film – fair, diverse, full of passion, and free from neoliberal thinking Read more »| 14 Nov 2022
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Opinion
French Film Festival UK 2022: Five films to see
French Film Festival UK is back once again with a strong lineup of classic and contemporary Francophone cinema. We talk you through the highlights Read more »| 04 Nov 2022 -
Comedy
ICYMI: Hannah Fairweather on When Harry Met Sally
Fresh from her Fringe debut, Edinburgh local Hannah Fairweather takes on the Nora Ephron classic, When Harry Met Sally Read more »| 14 Oct 2022 -
Opinion
Glasgow Youth Film Festival – Young Programmers' Picks
Glasgow Youth Film Festival, the innovative event programmed by Glasgow teens aged 15 to 19, returns with another programme blending new and older films that speak to younger audiences. Some of this year’s programmers talk us through their highlights Read more »| 12 Sep 2022 -
Opinion
Edinburgh Film Festival 2022: 15 Must-See Films
Of course, we recommend you make it opener Aftersun and closer After Yang, although tickets are currently like gold dust. Here are 15 other must-see titles from EIFF's programme Read more »| 09 Aug 2022 -
Travel
Edinburgh on Screen
With its cobbled streets and Gothic architecture, Edinburgh is a dream for filmmakers. Here are four local favourites to return to that make great use of the various sides of the city Read more »| 11 Jul 2022 -
Festivals
Highlights from the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Skinny returned to Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where we found the annual Crystal Globe competition bursting with invention, and had the chance to catch some stunning films fresh from the Berlinale and Cannes Read more »| 08 Jul 2022 -
Opinion
Paris, Texas and the Masculine Urge to Walk into the Desert
With Wim Wenders' masterpiece Paris, Texas back in cinemas this month, one writer explores the film's central motif of a taciturn man trying to make amends after abandoning his life and his loved ones Read more »| 05 Jul 2022 -
Opinion
A Bad Feeling About This: Solving Star Wars' problems
Recent Star Wars instalments have struggled to deliver the series' mythic tropes without retreading old ground. How does the new series Obi-Wan Kenobi fare? Read more »| 30 Jun 2022 -
Opinion
I’d Rather Be a Pig Than a Fascist: 30 Years of Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso, Hayao Miyazaki's enchanting adventure film about a first world war fighter pilot who helps battle fascists in Italy, even though he's transformed into a pig-man, turns 30. We look back at this anti-war masterpiece Read more »| 09 Jun 2022