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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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 -
InterviewsPablo 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 -
FestivalsThe 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 ReleasesMad 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
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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 -
NewsWatch the terrifying trailer for Stephen King’s It
Stephen King’s scariest book gets a big screen adaptation – and the first teaser is promisingly creepy Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
Fat City
John Huston scored a late-career knockout with this bruising and deeply felt study of an ageing boxer stumbling from the ring to the bar Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Music
Irvine Welsh is writing a TV show about acid house
The Trainspotting author has been chosen to pen Ibiza87, which takes as its inspiration the careers of DJs Nicky Holloway, Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (27 Mar-2 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the live action Ghost in the Shell remake, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire and Rainer Werner Fassbinder masterpiece Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
News
Casey Affleck haunts Rooney Mara in A Ghost Story
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara reunite with their Ain’t Them Bodies Saints director for this intriguing-looking indie ghost story Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Festivals
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017: Best of the Fest
Another excellent edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival has been and gone. We look back at the highlights (a celebration of Charles Bukowski), the lowlights (some mediocre VR experiments) and the best of the international competition Read more »| 28 Mar 2017