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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InterviewsA look inside Lynchian psychodrama The Ghoul
Gareth Tunley and Tom Meeten discuss making mind-bending psychological thriller The Ghoul Read more »| 31 Jul 2017 -
NewsIT trailer: Killer clown Pennywise is back!
The terrifying creature is back to terrorise a new generation with this adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
NewsSuburbicon trailer: Matt Damon + George Clooney + Coens
Matt Damon is seeking violent revenge in George Clooney’s latest film as director, working from a darkly comic script by the Coen Brothers Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Opinion
In praise of Jonathan Demme's soulful cinema
Jonathan Demme was the maker of compassionate cinema full of interesting faces and funky music; in August, Glasgow Film pays tribute to Demme in the cinema's ongoing CineMasters series. Here's what made the director, who died in April, so special Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
New Releases
Maudie
A laudable performance by Sally Hawkins can't save this sluggish biopic of painter Maude Lewis Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
NewsRick and Morty season three gets UK launch date
The new season of the cult animation will start streaming on Netflix in the UK this Sunday Read more »| 26 Jul 2017
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New ReleasesDetroit
The terrifying middle act of docudrama Detroit might be the best thing Kathryn Bigelow's ever made, though it's surrounded by clumsiness in the film's bookending material Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
News
Simpsons creator Matt Groening producing new Netflix show
The creator of The Simpsons and Futurama will produce a new adult animation for the streaming service Read more »| 25 Jul 2017 -
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David Bowie 'could have been in Blade Runner 2049'
Instead we have Jared Leto in the long-awaited follow-up to Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic Read more »| 24 Jul 2017 -
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First look at nostalgic sci-fi Ready Player One
The first trailer for Spielberg's film set in a VR dystopia features The Iron Giant, Freddy Kruger and Back to the Future’s DeLorean, along with a whole mess of other references Read more »| 24 Jul 2017 -
Festivals
Cinema icon Bruce LaBruce to attend SQIFF 2017
The legendary Canadian LGBTQ* filmmaker will attend Scottish Queer International Film Festival with new film The Misandrists and his classic black comedy Hustler White Read more »| 24 Jul 2017 -
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Stranger Things season two trailer, featuring Eleven & Michael Jackson
Young Will Byers is having a tough time of things in the first full length trailer for season two of Stranger Things, and Eleven returns from the upside down Read more »| 23 Jul 2017 -
Opinion
When Pop Stars Act: The best and worst
From Harry Styles in Dunkirk to Rihanna in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, our cinema screens are currently full of pop stars having a go at acting, but it's hardly a new trend. Here are the best and worst examples Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
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Watch Will Smith in trailer for fantasy film Bright
Will Smith and Joel Edgerton star in David Ayer’s $100 million Netflix fantasy drama, which comes across as Training Day meets Lord of the Rings Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
New Releases
A Ghost Story
Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck get ghosted in David Lowery's spellbinding exploration of the passage of time Read more »| 21 Jul 2017