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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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 -
FestivalsEIFF 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
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New Releases
Have a Nice Day
Liu Jian's second feature is a brutal crime caper scored through with jet-black humour Read more »| 19 Mar 2018 -
InterviewsLiu Jian on Tarantino-esque animation Have a Nice Day
With his brutal and brilliant second animated feature, rising Chinese filmmaker Liu Jian shines a spotlight on the rise of greed and envy in his homeland Read more »| 19 Mar 2018 -
New ReleasesThe Square
Ruben Östlund follows up Force Majeure with another toe-curling comedy, The Square, which takes aim at the art world and the fragile male ego Read more »| 15 Mar 2018 -
New Releases
Annihilation
Alex Garland's ambitious follow-up to Ex Machina is one of the finest science fiction films of the last five years – what a shame UK film fans will only get to see it on the small screen Read more »| 14 Mar 2018 -
New ReleasesFoxtrot
Samuel Maoz’s Israeli drama Foxtrot is a story of familial grief told in three parts Read more »| 14 Mar 2018 -
New Releases
The Third Murder
Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest follows the thickening fog around a murder trial that may not be as straightforward as it seems Read more »| 14 Mar 2018 -
Opinion
Why video game adaptations fail and how they can be saved
Cinema history is littered with heinous video game adaptations, from Super Mario Bros to Assassin's Creed. We consider why they rarely make for great cinema Read more »| 13 Mar 2018 -
Festivals
Glasgow Short Film Festival: Meet some of the local filmmakers
The occasion of the eleventh Glasgow Short Film Festival gives audiences a chance to check out the fantastic shorts being made on the local scene. We speak to five of the best young Scottish and Scotland-based filmmakers with work in this year’s programme Read more »| 13 Mar 2018 -
New Releases
Unsane
Shot on the iPhone 7, Steven Soderbergh's latest film experiment is an engrossing psychological thriller centered on a live-wire performance from The Crown's Claire Foy Read more »| 13 Mar 2018