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 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 -
FestivalsAlex 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
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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 -
Opinion
What 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 -
News
Stranger 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 -
Interviews
Mike 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 -
OpinionHow 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 -
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