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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New ReleasesPrevenge
Alice Lowe directs and stars in this darkly comic tale of a pregnant woman with murder on her gestating foetus’s mind Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
OpinionWhat Fifty Shades can learn from Secretary
Inspired by GFF’s screening of Steven Shainberg’s Secretary and this month’s release of the Fifty Shades sequel, we look at the lessons the modern spankbuster could learn from the 2002 cult classic. Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
FestivalsJohn Waters on bad taste & Multiple Maniacs
John Waters' little-seen sophomore feature Multiple Maniacs is getting a revival. Despite its new polish, it's as outrageously grotesque as ever. The filmmaker takes us back to its making at the tail end of the 60s Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
FestivalsHippodrome Silent Cinema Fest shares 2017 lineup
HippFest is back for its seventh celebration of silent cinema Read more »| 07 Feb 2017 -
News
Watch the Stranger Things Season 2 Trailer
A seriously creepy promo for Stranger Things season two landed online last night promising a terrifying new monster, the return of Eleven, and Mike, Luc... Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
New ReleasesMoonlight
Barry Jenkins' decade-hopping coming-of-age film is a complex and boldly expressive meditation on time and identity Read more »| 06 Feb 2017
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News
Donald 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 -
Opinion
Reassessing 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 Reviews
Raising 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 -
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