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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NewsFirst trailer for Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit
Panic on the streets of Detroit in the first glimpse of the Point Break and Hurt Locker director’s historical crime drama that looks all too current Read more »| 12 Apr 2017 -
New ReleasesFast & Furious 8
The eighth film in the Fast and the Furious franchise provides the daft action sequences we've come to love, but Charlize Theron's unremarkable supervillain and an inconsistency in family values dampen some of the fun Read more »| 12 Apr 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (10-16 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul and the eighth film from the Fast and Furious franchise Read more »| 11 Apr 2017 -
News
Thor: Ragnarok gets a ridiculously fun first trailer
The first trailer for Thor: Ragnarok suggests we're in for an irreverent treat: Tom Hiddleston is back as Loki, Thor is taking on the Hulk in gladiatorial combat and Jeff Goldblum brings some glam rock camp Read more »| 10 Apr 2017 -
Opinion
Why we need Chris Morris's Brass Eye more than ever
With Manchester TV festival Pilot Light celebrating Brass Eye's 20th anniversary, we look back at Chris Morris's seminal show and realise we need his blister... Read more »| 10 Apr 2017 -
News
Watch the trailer for Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me
The new film tells of Tupac's early life and the charismatic rapper’s rise to fame Read more »| 07 Apr 2017
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FestivalsJohn Grant to kick off Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
The festival opens with Daisy Asquith’s Queerama, featuring music by John Grant, who performs after the world premiere Read more »| 06 Apr 2017 -
News
Watch the moving trailer for new Heath Ledger doc
I Am Heath Ledger features home movie footage shot by The Dark Knight star, as well as interviews with Naomi Watts, Ben Mendelsohn and Ang Lee A new documen... Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
News
Pilot Light TV Festival: Mad Men, Brass Eye & more
Manchester's television festival returns with celebrations of Brass Eye, Mad Men, Sugar Rush and contemporary web series Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (3-10 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the college cannibalism movie Raw, new Terence Davies joint A Quiet Passion and Netflix teen tragedy 13 Reasons Why Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
InterviewsRaoul Peck on I Am Not Your Negro & James Baldwin
Ahead of the UK release of I Am Not Your Negro, the extraordinary doc on writer and activist James Baldwin, we speak to director Raoul Peck about Baldwin's enduring relevance, experimenting with documentary form and the troubling rise of ignorance Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Interviews
Pablo Larraín rethinks the biopic with Neruda
Following the Natalie Portman-starring Jackie, mercurial Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín has another left-field take on a national icon with Neruda Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Festivals
The Goddess & By the Law, Bo'ness Hippfest 2017
We take in two film screenings at Bo'ness Festival of Silent Film, including a Soviet Western scored by RM Hubbert Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
New ReleasesA Quiet Passion
Terence Davies' Emily Dickinson biopic begins as a wry social satire before becoming a Dreyer-esque death crawl Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
New Releases
Mad to Be Normal
Former Doctor Who star David Tennant plays notorious Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing. The central performance is compelling, but the film around Tennant is as hazy as the cigarette smoke-choked sets Read more »| 03 Apr 2017