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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OpinionWhat to Watch this Week: 30 Jan - 6 Feb
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Toni Erdmann and the (supposedly) final film in the Resident Evil series. Read more »| 30 Jan 2017 -
NewsStranger Things star gives anti-Trump speech at SAGs
As the Netflix show picked up a Screen Actors' Guild award, David Harbour give a barnstorming anti-Trump speech Read more »| 30 Jan 2017 -
InterviewsMike Mills: “Grief can be really empowering”
Thumbsucker and Beginners director Mike Mills is back mining his own life for his art with 20th Century Women. He gives us some background on his very person... Read more »| 30 Jan 2017 -
Things To Do
The best Valentine's events in the North
From stargazing in a forest to a private exhibition tour, loved-up club nights to feelgood film screenings, we've rounded up our pick of Valentine's events in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester. Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Opinion
How Hollywood joined the anti-Trump resistance
Shia LaBeouf scrapping with neo-Nazis, Alec Baldwin riffing on the President and Madonna dropping the F-bomb on the White House – the revolution might not be televised, but you can catch it on Netflix Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
News
Donnie Darko's writer-director plans a sequel
Richard Kelly says it’ll be “much bigger and more ambitious” Read more »| 27 Jan 2017
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New Releases
Christine
Rebecca Hall gives an impressive performance as suicidal news reporter Christine Chubbuck, but director Antonio Campos never quite gets to grips with his subject Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Interviews
McGregor, Bremner, Carlyle & Miller on Trainspotting 2
The long-awaited sequel to Trainspotting is here. The film’s four stars – Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle – reflect on returning to their iconic characters Read more »| 26 Jan 2017 -
News
Flying Lotus’ debut film hailed as “grossest ever”
Kuso, the first feature film from Flying Lotus, causes mass walkout during its premiere at Sundance Film Festival Sundance Film Festival, the home of gentle... Read more »| 26 Jan 2017 -
New ReleasesLoving
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga deliver wonderful performances as Richard and Mildred Loving, but the film's unwavering tone grows stultifying Read more »| 26 Jan 2017 -
Opinion
Spicer World: Five Movies to Help Navigate the Alternate Fact Universe
Does two plus two really equal five or has there just been some glitch in the matrix? We try to figure out our new "alternate fact" universe using the movies Read more »| 25 Jan 2017 -
Festivals
10 films to see at Glasgow Film Festival 2017
Glasgow Film Festival returns with another sharply curated programme of films (both mint fresh and vintage), events and one-off movie happenings. Here's our guide to the top ten new works screening Read more »| 24 Jan 2017 -
News
Oscars 2017: La La Land equals nomination record
The Oscar nominations are in, and effervescent musical La La Land joins Titanic and All About Eve as the most nominated film in the history of the award... Read more »| 24 Jan 2017 -
Music
Young Fathers share Trainspotting 2 track
Listen to Only God Knows from the soundtrack to the eagerly-awaited Irvine Welsh adaptation Read more »| 24 Jan 2017 -
News
Ewan McGregor snubs Piers Morgan over Women's March
The Trainspotting star pulled out of an interview with Morgan in solidarity with the women around the world who marched against Donald Trump's presidency at the weekend Read more »| 24 Jan 2017