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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NewsDavid Byrne pays loving tribute to Jonathan Demme
The Talking Heads frontman remembers his friend Jonathan Demme, the great filmmaker who directed the near perfect Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sens... Read more »| 28 Apr 2017 -
InterviewsJulian Barratt on hilarious new comedy Mindhorn
Beloved curmudgeonly comic Julian Barratt makes a jump to the big screen with the endearingly silly Mindhorn, in which he plays a washed-up actor caught up in a murder plot. He talks about the pomposity of actors and a possible return of the Mighty Boosh Read more »| 28 Apr 2017 -
MusicHaim share Right Now video by P.T. Anderson
Watch the new video for Right Now by Haim; directed by Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson Read more »| 28 Apr 2017 -
FestivalsEIFF unveil Future Is History retrospective
This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival retrospective is inspired by the Brexit vote and the festival’s 70-year history Read more »| 27 Apr 2017 -
News
Watch the trailer for Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled
The first full trailer for Sofia Coppola’s sexy Southern Gothic thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning has been released Read more »| 20 Apr 2017 -
Festivals
¡Viva! 2017: Best of the Fest
The curtain came down on HOME's annual Spanish and Latin American festival of film, theatre and visual art earlier this week. We look back at the best of the film and theatre on offer Read more »| 19 Apr 2017
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Interviews
Katell Quillévéré on Heal the Living
The French director's third feature is her most ambitious yet: an emotion-filled melodrama concerned with the physical, emotional and the metaphysical side side of love Read more »| 19 Apr 2017 -
Festivals
Yorkshire Silent Film Festival 2017: programme announced
The UK’s largest celebration of silent film serves up classics from Buster Keaton, Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock and Georges Méliès Read more »| 19 Apr 2017 -
News
Cannes 2017: Coppola, Haneke and Ramsay in competition
Also competing for the Palme d'Or: Todd Haynes, Noah Baumbach, Bong Joon-ho, and places for David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Jane Campion's Top of the Lake in the Cannes lineup Read more »| 13 Apr 2017 -
News
David Lynch releases more Twin Peaks ‘clues’
Immerse yourself in Angelo Badalamenti's dreamy Twin Peaks theme music while you try to crack David Lynch's latest puzzle Read more »| 13 Apr 2017 -
Festivals
Scottish filmmaker Rory Stewart to compete in Cannes
Edinburgh filmmaker Rory Stewart’s graduation film Wild Horses will compete in the Cinéfondation Selection at Cannes Film Festival Read more »| 12 Apr 2017 -
News
First trailer for Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit
Panic on the streets of Detroit in the first glimpse of the Point Break and Hurt Locker director’s historical crime drama that looks all too current Read more »| 12 Apr 2017 -
New Releases
Fast & Furious 8
The eighth film in the Fast and the Furious franchise provides the daft action sequences we've come to love, but Charlize Theron's unremarkable supervillain and an inconsistency in family values dampen some of the fun Read more »| 12 Apr 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (10-16 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul and the eighth film from the Fast and Furious franchise Read more »| 11 Apr 2017 -
News
Thor: Ragnarok gets a ridiculously fun first trailer
The first trailer for Thor: Ragnarok suggests we're in for an irreverent treat: Tom Hiddleston is back as Loki, Thor is taking on the Hulk in gladiatorial combat and Jeff Goldblum brings some glam rock camp Read more »| 10 Apr 2017