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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Film EventsThe best film events in Scotland in February
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from a Wes Anderson retrospective to some curious Valentine's Day screenings Read more »| 30 Jan 2018 -
NewsSteven Soderbergh’s iPhone-shot thriller Unsane looks intense
The always inventive Soderbergh goes lo-fi with this thriller starring Claire Foy as a young woman convinced she’s being stalked Read more »| 30 Jan 2018 -
NewsStar Wars to tour the UK with a live orchestra
Fancy seeing Star Wars: A New Hope with a full live orchestra playing John Williams’ iconic score? A new film concert tour, which includes a date in Glasgow, lets you do just that Read more »| 29 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
15 films to see at Glasgow Film Festival 2018
Glasgow Film Festival is back to brighten this Scottish winter with a typically vibrant programme of films (old and new, big and small), events and one-off movie happenings. Here's our guide to the 15 films we think you should seek out Read more »| 26 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival announces 2018 programme
Glasgow Film Festival reveals its huge and eclectic 2018 programme, with hundreds of lively events and screenings, including the new films from Lynne Ramsay, Claire Denis, Wes Anderson and Agnès Varda Read more »| 24 Jan 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
The Mystery of Picasso
Henri-Georges Clouzot's documentary presenting a direct, unfiltered look at Pablo Picasso's creativity is a sort of high art precursor to Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense Read more »| 24 Jan 2018
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Dvd Reviews
Phenomena
Dario Argento's late-80s horror fantasy is much maligned but has plenty that's worth admiring Read more »| 24 Jan 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
American Assassin
Sub-Bourne action film American Assassin sees Dylan O’Brien play an ordinary young man who turns dead-eyed killing machine after his girlfriend is gunned down by terrorists Read more »| 24 Jan 2018 -
News
Oscar nominations: many good decisions and a few bad ones
The nominations are in for this year’s Oscars, and it’s a pretty progressive lineup, suggesting campaigns like #MeToo and #OscarSoWhite might be at last dragging Academy voters into the 21st century Read more »| 23 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
Josie Long’s Glasgow-set comedy to premiere at GFF
Comedian and actor Josie Long’s love affair with Glasgow continues with her debut feature Super November – described as both a “romantic comedy and Orwellian dystopia”, it will have its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jan 2018 -
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James Bond fan edit turns series into 'Bond v Bond' film
It’s Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond v Bond in this crazy James Bond feature length mashup Read more »| 19 Jan 2018 -
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Tom Hardy's late 90s rap mixtape resurfaces
And the shocking part is, it's not terrible Read more »| 19 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
EIFF announce Karen Gillan as Youth Strand patron
The star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle has been named as patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s youth strand “The Young and the Wild” Read more »| 18 Jan 2018 -
News
Watch this surprisingly good fan-made Harry Potter film
The 52-minute low-budget fan film is not without its bad dialogue, incoherent editing and cheesy acting, but the magical effects are kind of, well, magic Read more »| 18 Jan 2018 -
Festivals
GFF to close with doc on Scottish workers who defied Pinochet
Nae Pasaran tells the story of how workers at the East Kilbride Rolls-Royce factory defied Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship and helped ground half of Chile’s Air Force Read more »| 17 Jan 2018