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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OpinionIn praise of Jonathan Demme's soulful cinema
Jonathan Demme was the maker of compassionate cinema full of interesting faces and funky music; in August, Glasgow Film pays tribute to Demme in the cinema's ongoing CineMasters series. Here's what made the director, who died in April, so special Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
New ReleasesMaudie
A laudable performance by Sally Hawkins can't save this sluggish biopic of painter Maude Lewis Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
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Rick and Morty season three gets UK launch date
The new season of the cult animation will start streaming on Netflix in the UK this Sunday Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
New ReleasesDetroit
The terrifying middle act of docudrama Detroit might be the best thing Kathryn Bigelow's ever made, though it's surrounded by clumsiness in the film's bookending material Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
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Simpsons 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
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First 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 -
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Stranger 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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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 -
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Watch 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 -
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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