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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NewsMartin Scorsese's Silence gets first trailer
This passion project from the Goodfellas director has been in the works for nearly 30 years For nearly three decades Martin Scorsese, the great director of ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
OpinionWhat to Watch this Week: 21-28 Nov
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including David O Russell's short Past Forward and Jim Jarmusch's Paterson Read more »| 21 Nov 2016 -
Film EventsBest Film Screenings in the North (18-25 Nov)
The best film events happening in the North this week, including Liverpool Film Night and a very special screening of Blaxploitation classic Shaft Joy Fo... Read more »| 19 Nov 2016 -
News
Donnie Darko is back to blow our minds
Richard Kelly’s cult 2001 film Donnie Darko is coming back to British cinemas and it looks as beautiful and bizarre as ever. Read more »| 18 Nov 2016 -
New Releases
Your Name
This body-swap anime made big money at the Japanese box-office, and now UK anime fans can see what all the fuss is about. Read more »| 18 Nov 2016 -
Food And DrinkLeonardo DiCaprio visits Edinburgh, eats macaroni cheese
Have you ever wondered what a megastar like Leonardo DiCaprio would eat if he came to Scotland for the day? Really? OK. Mac'n'cheese, apparently Read more »| 17 Nov 2016
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News
Kong: Skull Island trailer: load of monkey business
The trailer for the latest remake of King Kong, starring Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, offers up a very different beast. We hope you love the smell of monkey in the morning Read more »| 17 Nov 2016 -
New Releases
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
This much awaited prequel to Harry Potter starring Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell and Katherine Waterston has little magic, and certainly isn't "fantastic". Read more »| 17 Nov 2016 -
NewsAdam Curtis on South Park: “the best documentary”
Sage for our time Adam Curtis reckons fiction films are where you'll find the best documentaries Read more »| 16 Nov 2016 -
Film Events
Celebrate Christmas with a Back to the Future prom
Get set to be transported back to 1955 (or is it 1985?) with HOME’s Enchantment Under The Sea disco, inspired by the high school prom Michael J Fox’s Marty McFly gatecrashes in Back the the Future Read more »| 16 Nov 2016 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (14-21 Nov)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the Ghost in the Shell trailer, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the film from the “new Miyazaki” Read more »| 14 Nov 2016 -
News
Fokus 2016: season of German cinema
The Goethe-Institut Glasgow and Filmhouse Edinburgh present the second year of Fokus, a handpicked season of German cinema screening across Scotland Read more »| 14 Nov 2016 -
News
Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement
The legendary animator of Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo is coming out of retirement for a new film about a squishy caterpillar. Read more »| 14 Nov 2016 -
New Releases
The Son of Joseph
French filmmaker Eugene Green's comic riff on the nativity story is a beguiling experience Read more »| 14 Nov 2016 -
New Releases
The Unknown Girl
Adèle Haenel shines in this ultra-low-key film noir from the Dardennes Read more »| 14 Nov 2016