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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FestivalsEIFF 2017: Edgar Wright immersive cinema events
New immersive cinema series EIFF: Play will kick off with events based on Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz Edinburg... Read more »| 23 May 2017 -
FestivalsEIFF 2017: Scottish films announced
Edinburgh International Film Festival unveils the eclectic selection of Scottish films, filmmakers and acting talent included in the 71st edition – plus a special screening of Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense Read more »| 23 May 2017 -
New ReleasesThe Meyerowitz Stories
Noah Baumbach offers up The Meyerowitz Stories, an emotionally astute comedy-drama concerning a dysfunctional New York family featuring Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler – the latter's performance is so good it might spell a comeback Read more »| 21 May 2017 -
Festivals
Loveless
Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev brings a typically intense film to Cannes with mysterious thriller Loveless Read more »| 19 May 2017 -
New Releases
The Red Turtle
Studio Ghibli's first international co-production is beautifully crafted and full of wonder Read more »| 19 May 2017 -
New Releases
Okja
Shades of Studio Ghibli in this ecological fantasy film from Bong Joon-ho that'll make you want to hug the nearest animal to hand and swear an oath on a bible that you won’t touch meat again Read more »| 19 May 2017
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NewsThe Dark Crystal is getting a Netflix prequel
A prequel to Jim Henson’s 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal is coming to the streaming platform The Dark Crystal haunted many an 80s kid’... Read more »| 19 May 2017 -
New Releases
Wonderstruck
Todd Haynes follows up his exquisitely melancholic romance Carol with innocent young adult adventure yarn, Wonderstruck. Based on the book by Brian Selznick... Read more »| 18 May 2017 -
Interviews
Michaël Dudok de Wit on The Red Turtle
Michaël Dudok de Wit's extraordinary new film marks the first collaboration between Japan's Studio Ghibli and a Western filmmaker. The Dutch animator recalls working with the legendary anime house and the moment he realised his film should be wordless Read more »| 18 May 2017 -
MusicDanger Mouse, Run the Jewels & Big Boi share Baby Driver track
Chase Me comes from the soundtrack to the new film from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright Groundbreaking producer Brian Burton, aka Dange... Read more »| 18 May 2017 -
News
Arrested Development to return for a fifth season
The full cast, from Jeffrey Tambor to Alia Shawkat, is confirmed for the fifth season, and comments from the show's creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, suggest the show might take aim at a family even more narcissistic than the Bluths: the Trumps! Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
Split
Split, the latest from The Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan, has as many fractured identities as its main character Dissociative identity disorder is... Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
New Releases
The Other Side of Hope
Aki Kaurismäki is back with a bittersweet drama about the unlikely bond between a Syrian refugee and a Helsinki gambler Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
News
Mike Leigh's new film documents Peterloo Massacre
Cameras start rolling next week on Mike Leigh’s Peterloo The next film from British filmmaker Mike Leigh, the celebrated director of Secrets & Lie... Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (16-22 May)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including candy-coloured sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Snatched, in which Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer play mother and daughter Read more »| 16 May 2017