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 ReleasesSweet Country
Warwick Thornton's Australian western deserves to be ranked alongside the other great revisionist westerns of the last 30 years Read more »| 07 Mar 2018 -
Film EventsThe best film events in Scotland in March
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from sharply curated shorts at Glasgow Short Film Festival and an anime season at Cameo to the best of silent cinema at HippFest Read more »| 06 Mar 2018 -
New ReleasesMom and Dad
One half of the duo behind Crank returns with Mom and Dad, a horror comedy about murderous parents, starring Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
Ramrod
A fascinating and absorbing western starring Veronica Lake, whose character comes across as a noir femme fatale who's been dropped into the middle of cattle country Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
News
Oscars results: Get Out, Timothée Chalamet and Greta Gerwig were robbed
But cheers to wins for Jordan Peele, James Ivory and wonderful Chilean movie A Fantastic Woman. Kudos too to Best Actress Frances McDormand and her rousing speech Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
New ReleasesYou Were Never Really Here
Morvern Callar director Lynne Ramsay knocks it out of the park again with this fierce hitman thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, which has echoes of Taxi Driver Read more »| 05 Mar 2018
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Opinion
The Skinny's Final Oscar Predictions
'And the award should go to...' Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Interviews
Steven Soderbergh on iPhone-shot thriller Unsane
Despite announcing his retirement from cinema, Steven Soderbergh has been as busy and innovative as ever over the last few years. His latest film, Unsane, is another experiment: a psychological thriller shot on an iPhone Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
New Releases
Western
Eastern Europe meets west in this simmering, slow-burn drama from German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
New Releases
Arcadia
Scottish filmmaker Paul Wright raids the BFI archives to create a dreamy study of rural life that's both nostalgic and nightmarish Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
New Releases
Submergence
James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander star in Wim Wenders' beautiful but shallow adaptation of JM Ledgard's novel Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
ArtAlberta Whittle wins 2018 Margaret Tait Award
Barbadian artist Alberta Whittle has been announced as the Margaret Tait Award winner in the centenary year of the Orcadian filmmaker’s birth Read more »| 27 Feb 2018 -
New Releases
The Breadwinner
From the director of The Secret of Kells, The Breadwinner is a powerful film in which the cuteness and colour of the animation is balanced by realities of life in war-torn Afghanistan Read more »| 27 Feb 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
Grace Jones is celebrated in this doc from Sophie Fiennes, but its naturalistic style means that most questions about the iconic star's extraordinary life and career go unanswered Read more »| 27 Feb 2018 -
New Releases
Disappearance
Iranian siblings come up against the insanity of their nation's backwards healthcare rules in this bold drama that begins well but plays its hand too early Read more »| 26 Feb 2018