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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FestivalsIn Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
News
Terrence Malick's Song to Song: Watch the trailer
Watch the first trailer for Terrence Malick's Austin-set music scene drama featuring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and many, many more Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
In the Radiant City
Rachel Lambert's debut about a dysfunctional family in the Deep South is flawed but promising Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
New ReleasesParadise
Veteran Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsy stretches plausibility with an experimental take on the Holocaust drama Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
New ReleasesSalt and Fire
Werner Herzog reunites with Michael Shannon for a fitfully amusing but largely stilted eco-thriller Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Louise by the Shore
Veteran French animator Jean-François Laguionie's latest centres on a septuagenarian who finds herself abandoned in an off-season holiday resort Read more »| 19 Feb 2017
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New Releases
Soul on a String
A beguiling combination of Western and Buddhist parable, Zhang Yang’s latest is a beautiful and thought-provoking work which suffers from being overlong and narratively unfocused Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
New ReleasesLogan
The third standalone film for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is violent and visceral – and the best from the X-Men franchise to date Read more »| 18 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Paul Verhoeven on sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert
Paul Verhoeven has been shocking and thrilling audiences for 46 years. He's back after a ten year absence with Elle, which might be his most daring work yet. We sit down with the Dutch auteur to talk sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
InterviewsSharlto Copley and Ben Wheatley on Free Fire
Free Fire's director and one of its stars on single-location thrills and spirited scumbags. Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Berlinale 2017: Beyond the Competition
We take a look at the rich but lesser known cinematic pleasures outside the main competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Free Fire
Shades of Sam Peckinpah in this star-studded action film about an arms deal gone wrong from Sightseers director Ben Wheatley Jean-Luc Godard once said that ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
O Canada: GFF celebrates New Canadian Cinema
Welcome to Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of New Canadian Cinema, the weirder but much more friendly neighbour of Hollywood Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Five daring female coming-of-age films
Inspired by All This Panic, Jenny Gage’s spellbinding documentary following seven teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn, we look back at some of cinema'... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Folk Hero & Funny Guy
Disappointingly generic buddy road movie starring Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell, Meredith Hagner and Melanie Lynskey. Read more »| 17 Feb 2017