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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NewsDonald Trump 'too crazy for South Park'
“It’s really hard to make fun of [Trump]; what’s actually happening is much funnier than anything we could come up with” Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
OpinionReassessing Martin Scorsese's legacy
Think Martin Scorsese's films are all about gangsters, violence and mayhem? Think again. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Opinion
Is Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge war porn?
War! What is it good for? Making lots of movies (say it again). Are all war movies – even those about pacifists – war porn? Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Dvd ReviewsRaising Cain
John Lithgow stars here as a troubled child psychiatrist in this hallucinatory, 1992 psychological thriller from director Brian De Palma. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
John Carpenter's Vampires & Ghosts of Mars
This pair of late works by John Carpenter prove that the genre master's filmography has riches beyond his earlier, celebrated classics Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
The Wailing
Hong-jin Na's The Wailing proves once again that, when it comes to intelligent big screen thrills, Korea knows best Read more »| 03 Feb 2017
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News
Watch every day of Groundhog Day simultaneously
Watch every day Bill Murray's character spends in a time loop in Groundhog Day in this dizzying 31 minute supercut. Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
News
First look at David Tennant as RD Laing
The first Mad To Be Normal trailer drops ahead of its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival On 26 February, Glasgow audiences will be the first to see new... Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Alex Kapranos on Glasgow music doc Lost in France
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos discusses his recollections of Glasgow's vibrant indie music scene of the 90s ahead of the release of Niall McCann&rsq... Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
NewsRihanna takes on iconic role in Bates Motel series
Rihanna takes on Janet Leigh’s role of Marion Crane – the woman who was on the run in Hitchcock's Psycho – in TV spin-off Bates Motel ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
Interviews
Maren Ade on female filmmakers & Toni Erdmann
International comedy smash Toni Erdmann is a shaggy-dog story about a father and daughter that's both biting and tender. Director Maren Ade explains how she ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2017 programme
The tenth edition of Scotland's largest celebration of short film reveals its lineup, from a Virtual Reality strand to a retrospective of Norwegian filmmaker Gunhild Enger to a programme all about vaginas Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
The Emigrants / The New Land
Jan Troell's epic two-part drama The Emigrants and The New Land comes to Blu-ray What did it take to leave Europe for a new life in America in the 19th cent... Read more »| 31 Jan 2017 -
Music
Art of the Memory Palace – A Tilt Remains: Track Premiere
Listen to A Tilt Remains by Art of the Memory Palace from their Voiture Blanche dans le Noir soundtrack Andrew Mitchell and Raz Ullah make up Dundee-based p... Read more »| 31 Jan 2017 -
New Releases
20th Century Women
Annette Bening shines in Mike Mills’ affection movie based on his own childhood Read more »| 31 Jan 2017