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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NewsSimpsons 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 -
NewsDavid 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 -
NewsFirst 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 -
NewsStranger 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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News
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 -
New Releases
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Fifth Element director Luc Besson returns to epic sci-fi with an imaginatively designed space opera marred by a wonky script and a pair of dead-eyed leads Read more »| 20 Jul 2017 -
NewsWatch first trailer for Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water
The first trailer for The Shape of Water, the latest film from the director of Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim, looks stunning Read more »| 19 Jul 2017 -
News
Watch James Franco as The Room's Tommy Wiseau
Take a first glimpse of James Franco in action as Tommy Wiseau, the bizarre auteur behind 2003 oddity The Room, which is often dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” Read more »| 19 Jul 2017 -
Interviews
David Lowery on A Ghost Story
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints director David Lowery returns with a ghost story like you've never seen before Read more »| 19 Jul 2017 -
New Releases
Hounds of Love
This 80s Australia-set serial killer tale, inspired by true events, is an impressive, unnerving debut feature from director Ben Young Read more »| 18 Jul 2017 -
Interviews
Michael Showalter on The Big Sick
The Big Sick, a quirky love story drawn from real life, is one of the year's funniest comedies. Director Michael Showalter tells us about balancing laughs and drama for his third feature as director Read more »| 18 Jul 2017 -
New Releases
Dunkirk
The story of Dunkirk told from three perspectives in Christopher Nolan's typically grand style. See it on the biggest screen you can find Read more »| 17 Jul 2017