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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NewsAfrica 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 -
NewsArmando 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 -
InterviewsA 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 -
News
Watch 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 -
NewsArmando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin pisses off Russia
The satirist's new comedy, The Death of Stalin, faced a ban in the country after being described as a "planned provocation" by Russian officials Read more »| 21 Sep 2017
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Festivals
Krafta Doc: Scotland's newest film festival
The creative process is under the spotlight at Krafta Doc, a new documentary film festival devoted to the work of artists, craftspeople and designers, from world famous creatives to unsung artisans Read more »| 19 Sep 2017 -
New Releases
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro is on Pan’s Labyrinth-level form with this whimsical love story about a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) falling for an aquatic creature Read more »| 18 Sep 2017 -
New Releases
Borg vs McEnroe
Shia LaBeouf's standout performance brings a much needed jolt to Janus Metz Pedersen's Borg vs McEnroe, which otherwise plays a safe game and goes out in the quarter finals Read more »| 18 Sep 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
Miss Sloane
Jessica Chastain shines as a ruthless political lobbyist, but this slick drama is let down by a script that becomes increasingly preposterous Read more »| 18 Sep 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
The Love of a Woman
This graceful romance is a fitting swan song for Jean Grémillon, one of France's finest filmmakers Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
Opinion
Mother! and other recent visions of the apocalypse
Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is only the latest in a new slew of films which confront head on humanity’s relationship to the natural environment with a new tone of desperation and rage Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
The Big Knife
A compelling and vicious film noir about the seedy underbelly of Hollywood, directed by the great Robert Aldrich Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
The Ghoul
Physiological thriller The Ghoul shows its first time director Gareth Tunley is a filmmaker to keep an eye out for in the future Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Festivals
15 films to see at London Film Festival 2017
The films we're most keen to see at this year's LFF, including the latest from Guillermo del Toro, Todd Haynes and Lynne Ramsay Read more »| 14 Sep 2017