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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New ReleasesReady Player One
Spielberg shakes off his pop cinema cobwebs with a sugar rush spectacle that combines state-of-the-art CGI with the Jaws and ET director's comforting blend of breakneck action, heartwarming characters and goofy humour Read more »| 29 Mar 2018 -
New ReleasesThe Islands and the Whales
Beautiful documentary posing tough but never patronising questions about the Faroe Islands and their inhabitants' traditions Read more »| 28 Mar 2018 -
OpinionSteven Spielberg's most underrated films
Before you delve into the delights of Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One, here are six of the director's lesser known, under-appreciated works to prep you for his latest blockbuster Read more »| 28 Mar 2018 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Passenger
One of his most sumptuously shot pictures, Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger has been crying out for a Blu-Ray release for as long as the medium’s been in existence Read more »| 27 Mar 2018 -
Opinion
Shoot 'Em Up: Time’s Up for Guns in Hollywood
In the wake of the Parkland mass shooting, is it time for Hollywood to rethink its relationship to guns? Read more »| 27 Mar 2018 -
News
A peek behind the scenes of Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs
This new mini-documentary gives an insight into the huge effort that went into Wes Anderson’s wonderful new stop-motion animation Read more »| 26 Mar 2018
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Music
Bill Murray is coming to serenade Edinburgh
The much-loved actor will be joined by German cellist Jan Vogler for their project in which Murray sings and reads American classics accompanied by a classical trio of musicians Read more »| 26 Mar 2018 -
News
Deadpool 2's new trailer introduces his X-Force team
In the playful new Deadpool 2 trailer we see our sarcastic anti-hero messing with Professor X’s wheelchair and forming his own team of mutants, X-Force Read more »| 22 Mar 2018 -
News
It Follows' director is back with Under the Silver Lake
Andrew Garfield stars in this curious-looking noir from David Robert Mitchell, who made the visually stunning horror It Follows Read more »| 22 Mar 2018 -
NewsWes Anderson CineMasters season at GFT
To mark the release of Wes Anderson's inspired new stop-motion adventure Isle of Dogs, Glasgow Film are crowning Wes Anderson next month's CineMaster Read more »| 22 Mar 2018 -
Festivals
EIFF line up female filmmakers & 80s horror retrospectives
This year’s EIFF retrospectives featuring American cinema of the 1980s is inspired by today’s current Trump-era America, say organisers Read more »| 22 Mar 2018 -
News
NFTS Scotland announces first courses
The National Film and Television School recently announced a new Scottish branch, and now its first courses are open for applications Read more »| 20 Mar 2018 -
News
Watch Isle of Dogs with your own four-legged pal
Glasgow film fans have a chance to take their four-legged friend to see Wes Anderson’s new stop motion animation, and Edinburgh film fans get a second bite at the idea as well Read more »| 20 Mar 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
Legend of the Mountain
Legend of the Mountain, the 1979 epic from wuxia pioneer King Hu, gets a welcome Blu-ray release from Eureka Entertainment Read more »| 19 Mar 2018 -
Festivals
Female directors rule at GSFF 2018 awards
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2018 handed out its annual awards last night, with a dreamy Basque Country short and Alia Ghafar’s Edinburgh College of Art graduation film winning the top prizes Read more »| 19 Mar 2018