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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NewsMichelle Williams 'paid a fraction of Wahlberg's salary' for Spacey reshoots
Celebrated actor Michelle Williams made 1,500 times less than her co-star Mark Wahlberg for their roles in the re-shoots for All the Money in the World Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
NewsGreta Gerwig speaks out against Woody Allen: ‘I will not work for him again’
The Lady Bird writer-director is the latest Hollywood star to express regret at having previously worked with alleged abuser Woody Allen Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
The Man with the Iron Heart
This World War II drama starring Rosamund Pike and Jack O’Connell is prettily framed and powerfully acted, but doesn't leave an impression as the credits roll Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
InterviewsMeet Jennifer Reeder: the world needs her feminist short films right now
As Reeder’s knockout short Blood Beneath the Skin is released online, we celebrate this most unique and inventive of filmmakers Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
Opinion
Bafta 2018 snubs: from Get Out to Greta Gerwig
Bafta voters are famously clueless, but this year's set of nominations are particularly infuriating. We look over the award body's biggest oversights in this year's nominations, which were announced this morning Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
New Releases
The Post
Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks lead this timely newsroom procedural about the release of the Pentagon Papers Read more »| 09 Jan 2018
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New Releases
Lover for a Day
A young woman returns home to crash at her middle-age professor father's flat, only to find he's in a relationship with one of his students Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
Interviews
Richard Linklater on buddy movie Last Flag Flying
Richard Linklater is back with another left-turn: a low-key road movie starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne that's a kind-of sequel to Hal Ashbey's Last Detail. We speak to this most mercurial of filmmakers Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
New Releases
The Final Year
Greg Barker's documentary follows President Obama's team during his final year in office. Despite this unprecedented access, the resulting film is disappointingly disjointed Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
New ReleasesCoco
An animation about death might seem an odd choice for the family-friendly studio Pixar, but in the hands of Toy Story 2 director Lee Unkrich such concerns are unwarranted Read more »| 05 Jan 2018 -
Film Events
The best film events in Scotland in January
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from Paul Thomas Anderson on 35mm to a weekend-long love letter to Nicolas Cage Read more »| 05 Jan 2018 -
OpinionThe 25 must-see films of 2018
From stop motion canines in Isle of Dogs to the 80s-obsessed future of Ready Player One via the curious girl meets fish-boy love story that is The Shape of Water, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2018 Read more »| 04 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs to open Glasgow Film Festival
Anderson’s stop-motion animation will kick off the 14th edition of the annual Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 04 Jan 2018 -
New Releases
Jupiter's Moon
Lame parable about a young man with supernatural powers caught up in the European refugee crisis Read more »| 03 Jan 2018 -
Interviews
Mike White on new Ben Stiller film Brad's Status
Writer-director Mike White on Brad’s Status, in which Ben Stiller plays a man intimidated by his peers' success. We chat about White's eclectic career, working in the Hollywood sausage factory and the aspect of directing he likes least Read more »| 03 Jan 2018