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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FestivalsFresh Blood: 5 mindblowing vampire movies
Not all screen vampires wear capes and sleep in coffins. Ahead of GFF's screening of inventive teen vampire tale The Transfiguration, we take a look at five ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Mindhorn
Julian Barratt's performance is almost Partridge-esque in its clueless pomposity in this hilarious British comedy Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Olivier Assayas on Kristen Stewart & Personal Shopper
The ever versatile Olivier Assayas returns to genre territory with strange and mysterious ghost story Personal Shopper, which centres on a knockout performan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
All This Panic
A remarkable documentary capturing the dreamy haze of a particular point in a group of young women's lives Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Heal the Living
Katell Quillévéré's third feature is her most accomplished yet Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
FestivalsCinema Smackdowns: 5 of the funniest film fights
Glasgow Film Festival’s screening of Catfight, in which two former college friends (Sandra Oh and Anne Heche) fight each other after an awkward encount... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017
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New ReleasesHandsome Devil
John Butler channels 80s John Hughes for this Irish coming out story, but unfortunately he also borrows that era's conservative approach to sexuality. Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
New ReleasesNeruda
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín wraps his story of revolutionary poet Pablo Neruda within a fictional narrative. The approach is sadly unsuccessful Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Five great boxing movies
Inspired by the release of trio of Johnny Harris' powerful and unflinching boxing film Jawbone, we consider the best boxing movies cinema has to of... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Chloé Robichaud on political satire Boundaries
Three smart women find themselves surrounded by chauvinistic mansplainers in this wry political fable from Québécois talent Chloé Robichaud. The 29-year-old writer-director explains how the film she wrote feels even more vital in a post-Trump universe Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Return to form: The Stop Motion animation revival
Why the palpable reality of stop motion animations like My Life as a Courgette – which screens at this year's Glasgow Film Festival – are essenti... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Enter David Lynch's Factory Photography with HEXA
A GFF17 highlight looks to be HEXA's sonic response to David Lynch's Factory Photographs, the legendary director's collection of black-and-white st... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
The Road to Mandalay
Burmese director Midi Z's vivid new film follows a pair of illegal immigrants in Bangkok. Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Opinion
Great queer romances on Netflix
It's LGBT History Month, so whether you're gay, bi, straight or somewhere else on the sexual spectrum, it's the perfect excuse to see more queer cinema. Here... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
My Life as a Courgette
Swiss stop-motion animation following a young orphan from the pen of Girlhood director Céline Sciamma After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017