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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FestivalsSheffield Doc/Fest announces 2017 line-up
Films on Julian Assange and MP Jo Cox feature, as well as onstage talks including Nick Broomfield in conversation with Louis Theroux Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
Festivals
EIFF announce this year's free outdoor screenings
Edinburgh International Film Festival announce the lineup for its annual free summer outdoor screenings, featuring blockbusters, family films and a few classics Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
NewsMarvel heroes team up in first Defenders trailer
Marvel’s small screen superheroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist get their version of the Avengers with new Netflix show The Defenders Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
News
Elba v McConaughey in The Dark Tower trailer
Idris Elba’s gunslinger will battle it out with Matthew McConaughey’s The Man in Black in this epic Stephen King adaptation Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Opinion
Films to watch in preparation for World War III
Concerned about the genuine possibility of global thermonuclear war? Maybe if we could get the 45th President of the USA to sit down and watch the following films, he'd remove his small finger from the doomsday button Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (1-7 May)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Neil Gaiman series American Gods, and Julian Barratt comedy Mindhorn Read more »| 02 May 2017
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NewsJulian Barratt's spoof song as his Mindhorn character
A deliriously sexy piece of 80s "erotic power-rock" from Mindhorn's Richard Thorncroft, titled You Can't Handcuff The Wind, has been unearthed ahead of the film's release Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
New Releases
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Gorgeous but sentimental sequel to the wacky Guardians of the Galaxy Read more »| 30 Apr 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
Hard Times
The debut film from Walter Hill, Hard Times, a depression-era bare-knuckle boxing movie, comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 28 Apr 2017 -
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 -
Interviews
Julian 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 -
Music
Haim 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 -
Festivals
EIFF 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