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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OpinionWhy we need Chris Morris's Brass Eye more than ever
With Manchester TV festival Pilot Light celebrating Brass Eye's 20th anniversary, we look back at Chris Morris's seminal show and realise we need his blister... Read more »| 10 Apr 2017 -
NewsWatch the trailer for Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me
The new film tells of Tupac's early life and the charismatic rapper’s rise to fame Read more »| 07 Apr 2017 -
FestivalsJohn Grant to kick off Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
The festival opens with Daisy Asquith’s Queerama, featuring music by John Grant, who performs after the world premiere Read more »| 06 Apr 2017 -
News
Watch the moving trailer for new Heath Ledger doc
I Am Heath Ledger features home movie footage shot by The Dark Knight star, as well as interviews with Naomi Watts, Ben Mendelsohn and Ang Lee A new documen... Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
News
Pilot Light TV Festival: Mad Men, Brass Eye & more
Manchester's television festival returns with celebrations of Brass Eye, Mad Men, Sugar Rush and contemporary web series Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (3-10 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the college cannibalism movie Raw, new Terence Davies joint A Quiet Passion and Netflix teen tragedy 13 Reasons Why Read more »| 05 Apr 2017
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InterviewsRaoul Peck on I Am Not Your Negro & James Baldwin
Ahead of the UK release of I Am Not Your Negro, the extraordinary doc on writer and activist James Baldwin, we speak to director Raoul Peck about Baldwin's enduring relevance, experimenting with documentary form and the troubling rise of ignorance Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Interviews
Pablo Larraín rethinks the biopic with Neruda
Following the Natalie Portman-starring Jackie, mercurial Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín has another left-field take on a national icon with Neruda Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Festivals
The Goddess & By the Law, Bo'ness Hippfest 2017
We take in two film screenings at Bo'ness Festival of Silent Film, including a Soviet Western scored by RM Hubbert Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
New Releases
A Quiet Passion
Terence Davies' Emily Dickinson biopic begins as a wry social satire before becoming a Dreyer-esque death crawl Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
New Releases
Mad to Be Normal
Former Doctor Who star David Tennant plays notorious Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing. The central performance is compelling, but the film around Tennant is as hazy as the cigarette smoke-choked sets Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Interviews
Julia Ducournau on coming-of-age cannibalism drama Raw
Raw has been described as a contemporary Suspiria meets Ginger Snaps, yet that impressive comparison somehow still doesn't do justice to French director Julia Ducournau's definitely self-assured, gripping debut Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
Two Rode Together
James Stewart stars as a cynical marshal hired to rescue prisoners captured by Comanche in this dark western from John Ford Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
New Releases
Ghost in the Shell
A visually spectacular piece of sci-fi philosophising Read more »| 30 Mar 2017 -
Opinion
Five films to Brexit by
Worried about the UK's future post-Brexit? Never fear. Movies can show us the way Read more »| 30 Mar 2017