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 Events
Five unmissable Scalarama screenings
Annual movie celebration Scalarama (aka Scaladonia north of the border) returns this September to “fill the land with cinemas.” Here are five Scottish screenings that caught our eye Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
Interviews
Benedict Andrews on Rooney Mara's powerful drama Una
Theatre vet Benedict Andrews makes his film debut with Una, an adaptation of David Harrower's play Blackbird. We talk to the director about stars Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn, Bergman, and the difficulties in making a film about child abuse trauma Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
Students
7 great short films to inspire budding directors
Some simple but stunning short films made by directors who'd go on to be famous, to give you inspiration as you embark on a career in film. Or maybe you’re just after something fun to watch while hungover. Either way, these shorts are for you Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
New Releases
Moon Dogs
Road movie Moon Dogs has some appealing elements – including an impressive Anton Newcombe score – but its script's lame attempts at humour and general lack of imagination fail to charm Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
New Releases
Una
Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn star in Benedict Andrews' provocative debut based on David Harrower's acclaimed play Blackbird Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
Opinion
Cinema's strange glamorisation of fascists
With the rise of the alt-right, the protests at Charlottesville and the resurgence of Neo Nazism throughout Europe, we look at cinema's own troubled relationship to the Far Right Read more »| 29 Aug 2017
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Opinion
Five great British road movies
Ahead of the release of Scottish road movie Moon Dogs, we seek out five other examples of the few road movies made on the British Isles, from Christopher Petit's existential Radio On to the ridiculous cross country antics of Monty Python Read more »| 29 Aug 2017 -
News
Fleabag is coming back for a second series
Phoebe Waller-Bridge confirms she’s making a new series of her comedy Fleabag, but it won’t be with us until 2019 Read more »| 25 Aug 2017 -
News
First glimpse of Black Mirror season four
Charlie Brooker’s twisted sci-fi series returns with six new episodes, and the episode titles and casts have been announced Read more »| 25 Aug 2017 -
New Releases
Logan Lucky
Steven Soderbergh returns from his self-imposed retirement with a hillbilly heist movie that has too many funny accents but not enough funny lines Read more »| 25 Aug 2017 -
News
Jean-Pierre Melville is GFT's latest CineMaster
This September the ice cool cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville will be lighting up Glasgow Film Theatre’s screen as part of its ongoing CineMasters series Read more »| 24 Aug 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
Westfront 1918 & Kameradschaft
Two films from German filmmaker GW Pabst, best known for his Weimar-era classics Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl, both of which starred the iconic Louise Brooks Read more »| 22 Aug 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
The 5000 Fingers of Dr T
This big-budget kids' film from 1953 based on ideas by Dr Seuss proved too much for young minds at the time, but deserves to find a cult audience on Blu-ray Read more »| 22 Aug 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
Mickey One
Drawing inspiration from French New Wave cinema, Arthur Penn’s visually arresting but overly self-conscious tale about a comic on the run from the mob is one of the great what-ifs of American cinema Read more »| 22 Aug 2017 -
News
Black comedy Three Billboards to close London Film Festival
In Bruges director Martin McDonagh’s new black comedy will close this year’s London Film Festival Read more »| 22 Aug 2017