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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InterviewsArmando Iannucci on satire, Trump and The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci is back with the strange and brilliant The Death of Stalin. We talk to the director about navigating the line between comedy and tragedy, the film’s unplanned parallels to Donald Trump and the role of satire in today’s society Read more »| 03 Oct 2017 -
FestivalsScotland Loves Anime 2017: Preview
Scotland Loves Anime returns with another stellar line-up of Japanese animations, which this year features tales of romance, horror, adventure and, erm, dragon dental hygiene Read more »| 02 Oct 2017 -
InterviewsMichael Winterbottom on Wolf Alice doc On the Road
Michael Winterbottom makes his first tour documentary (with a twist) with On the Road, which follows alt-rock group Wolf Alice playing in support of their acclaimed debut album. We spoke to the filmmaker about his unique fiction-nonfiction hybrid Read more »| 02 Oct 2017 -
New Releases
Blade Runner 2049
Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is an stunning, overwhelming experience and a worthy sequel to one of the greatest films of all time. Well, almost... Read more »| 02 Oct 2017 -
InterviewsPeter Mackie Burns on vibrant comedy Daphne
Daphne, the debut feature film by Glaswegian director Peter Mackie Burns, is both a hilarious character study of a 30-something hedonist and an expressive portrait of modern London. We speak to Burns about bringing it to the screen Read more »| 29 Sep 2017 -
Opinion
Blade Runner 2049: We take the Voight-Kampff test
Blade Runner 2049 hits cinemas next week, so ideal timing to check we have the human emotions required to review the new film... Read more »| 29 Sep 2017
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New Releases
The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin is a surreal, intriguing and strangely affecting work that's simultaneously familiar yet totally different to anything he’s done before Read more »| 28 Sep 2017 -
News
First look at Alex Garland's Natalie Portman-starring sci-fi
In the first trailer for Annihilation – the much-anticipated new film from Ex Machina director Alex Garland – Natalie Portman is looking for answers to what happened to her husband Read more »| 27 Sep 2017 -
News
Watch the gorgeous Blade Runner 2049 anime prequel
Flying Lotus provides the score for Blade Runner: Black Out 2022, the anime by Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe, which fills the gap between the original and new film Blade Runner 2049 Read more »| 27 Sep 2017 -
Film Events
Claire Denis is GFT's latest CineMaster
Claire Denis is celebrated at Glasgow Film Theatre this month with a mini-retrospective spanning from 1999 masterpiece Beau Travail to the French director’s dark noir Bastards Read more »| 25 Sep 2017 -
News
Africa in Motion reveals 2017 programme
The full programme for this year’s Africa in Motion film festival (27 Oct - 5 Nov) has been announced, and once again the festival offers up a lively lineup of African cinema, both new and old Read more »| 25 Sep 2017 -
News
Armando Iannucci brings The Death of Stalin to GFT
Glaswegian satirist and the creator of The Thick of It Armando Iannucci screens new comedy The Death of Stalin at Glasgow Film Theatre and will take part in a Q&A following the film Read more »| 25 Sep 2017 -
Interviews
A fond farewell to the soulful Harry Dean Stanton
With last week's death of Harry Dean Stanton – whose film career stretched from the 1950s to new feature Lucky – cinema lost one of its most iconic character actors. Lucky's director, John Carroll Lynch, tells us about giving Stanton his final role Read more »| 22 Sep 2017 -
NewsWatch the delightful trailer to Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
Science fiction, dogs and whimsy collide in the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s new stop-motion animation, Isle of Dogs Read more »| 21 Sep 2017 -
Festivals
A look ahead to Homage to Catalonia: Scotland's Catalan Film Festival
Film festival Homage to Catalonia aims to explore the relationship between Scotland and Catalonia through cinema Read more »| 21 Sep 2017