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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FestivalsRD Laing and Psychiatry on Screen
With RD Laing biopic Mad to be Normal closing the Glasgow Film Festival, we take a look at other films which shed light on the controversial psychiatrist's a... Read more »| 23 Feb 2017 -
NewsWatch the four-minute prologue to Alien: Covenant
Meet the crew of space ship Covenant, who include Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, and, er, James Franco and Danny McBride Read more »| 23 Feb 2017 -
InterviewsJuho Kuosmanen on The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is about an unassuming Finnish boxer who has his nation's hopes pinned on his success. We speak to its directo... Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
New ReleasesThe Age of Shadows
Kim Jee-woon's vintage spy thriller pulses with precipitous energy Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Lipstick Under My Burkha
An unflinching drama observing the depths of women’s suffering in contemporary Indian society. Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Aquarius
Sonia Braga stars in this formally inventive meditation on class and memory from Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. Read more »| 21 Feb 2017
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New Releases
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
A quartet of essay film portraying the great writer, artist and critic John Berger Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Bodkin Ras
Documentary and fiction collide in this tale of a mysterious stranger's arrival in a Scottish town Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Headshot
Brutal action flick from Indonesia featuring Raid star Iko Uwais Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
New ReleasesAngry Inuk
Documentary looking at seal hunting from the point of view of an Inuit community who see it as a way of life Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Graduation
Great Romanian new wave director Cristian Mungiu returns with another beautifully structured film about a family mired in a suspenseful web of compromises Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Things To Do
FriendsFest heads to Manchester and Sheffield
After everyone went nuts for last year's sell-out tour last year, Comedy Central UK's FriendsFest returns this summer in partnership with The Luna Cinema, this time rolling out to new UK locations including Manchester and Sheffield. Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Cineskinny
Way of the Gun: Cinema's most underrated shootouts
Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, we pay tribute to some of cinemas great, but under-appreciated, gun fights. Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Illegitimate
A black comedy-infused drama from Romania taking on two tough subjects: abortion and incest Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
A Man for All Seasons
The 1966 Oscar-winner gets the Blu-ray treatment from Masters of Cinema Read more »| 20 Feb 2017