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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Film Events
Scottish Film Events: November 2024
There are loads more film festivals this month, plus a brilliant season of noir to mark Noirvember and an exhibition celebrating the late, great Derek Jarman Read more »| 31 Oct 2024 -
News
First details of Glasgow Film Festival 2025 revealed
Glasgow Film Festival celebrates its 21st edition next year, and to mark this coming-of-age milestone, the festival will be treating audiences to a free retrospective of fantastic coming-of-age films from across cinema history Read more »| 30 Oct 2024 -
New Releases
Blitz
Blitz sees Steve McQueen torn between telling a rousing tale of 'Blitz Spirit' and delving into the darker impulses of war-torn Britain Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
New Releases
Anora
Sean Baker’s Anora, a screwball romance in which a brassy exotic dancer is swept off her feet by the gawky son of a Russian oligarch, is another of his razor-sharp humanist depictions of life for people on the margins Read more »| 28 Oct 2024 -
New Releases
Dahomey
French-Senegalese director Mati Diop returns with a documentary following the journey of priceless treasures that were stolen by the French empire and are now being returned to their African homeland Read more »| 21 Oct 2024 -
New Releases
The Crime Is Mine
The acting ensemble is the chief reason to seek out this screwball pastiche from François Ozon – particularly the joyously hammy turn from Isabelle Huppert Read more »| 14 Oct 2024
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New Releases
A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things
Mark Cousins’ exploration of the life and work of Scottish abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is a typically thoughtful and idiosyncratic take on the under-appreciated artist Read more »| 14 Oct 2024 -
Film Events
Inverness Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
Inverness Film Festival is back with another packed lineup that should delight Highland audiences – highlights include new films from Mike Leigh, Sean Baker and Andrea Arnold Read more »| 11 Oct 2024 -
Film Events
Sicko Mode: Weird Weekend returns to Glasgow
Weird Weekend, Matchbox Cine's celebration of strange and wonderful cinema, is back – we take a look at the 2024 programme Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
Opinion
Scotland on Screen: Laura Carreira
From her incisive short films to her upcoming feature debut On Falling, Laura Carreira has shown herself to be a filmmaker with an eye for nuanced cinema concerned with social justice. Ahead of On Falling’s UK premiere, we look back at this body of work Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
New Releases
Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands
Carla J. Easton and Blair Young team up to tell a vibrant but enraging story of the great girl bands from Scotland that should be on teenage bedroom walls across the country but aren't Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
Interviews
Into the Ghibliverse: Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham on their new book
Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham have spent the last six years celebrating Studio Ghibli with their podcast Ghibliotheque. Their new book, Ghibliverse: Studio Ghibli Beyond the Films, dives even deeper and wider Read more »| 07 Oct 2024 -
Interviews
Scotland's Film Festival Scene: Vibrant but Running on Fumes
Scotland has a plentitude of film festivals but there's an increasing scarcity of funding available to support them. In a month overflowing with film events, we take the temperature on this vibrant but precarious scene Read more »| 04 Oct 2024 -
Film Events
True Stories: Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival preview
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival returns with the new film from Duncan Cowles, and a trio of intriguing and personal documentaries Read more »| 04 Oct 2024 -
Film Events
Road Trip: Queer East On The Road preview
Queer East, the festival of Asian LGBTQ+ cinema, heads on a UK tour this month – we look at the programme ahead of a batch of Edinburgh screenings Read more »| 03 Oct 2024