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 ReleasesOut of Darkness
Paleolithic survivalist horror Out of Darkness sees a band of early humans up against the wildness of the Scottish landscape – and a mysterious threat picking them off one by one Read more »| 29 Jan 2024 -
New ReleasesThe Iron Claw
Sean Durkin's latest is part gut-wrenching tragedy, part celebration of the sibling bond. Think Little Women but with strapping wrestlers Read more »| 29 Jan 2024 -
OpinionThe Unheroic Journey: Awards Season's Best Biopics
Narrative fiction has long travelled outwith the rigid story structures set out by Aristotle and Joseph Campbell, but biographical cinema has been slow to catch up. Might this year's crop of biopics be turning the tide? Read more »| 25 Jan 2024 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
This year’s GFF opens with much-anticipated new thriller Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart, and closes with the world premiere of a new documentary on Glasgow comedian Janey Godley Read more »| 24 Jan 2024 -
InterviewsAndrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers
All of Us Strangers sees a lonely man embark on a new relationship while inexplicably reconnecting with his long-dead parents. Its director, Andrew Haigh, discusses queer alienation, understanding our parents and the soulfulness of Paul Mescal's eyes Read more »| 23 Jan 2024 -
New ReleasesAll of Us Strangers
Ireland’s most sensitive heartthrobs sizzle in Andrew Haigh’s sad (yet sexy) fantasy tale Read more »| 22 Jan 2024
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InterviewsScotland on Screen: Jack Archer on Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Jack Archer’s documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend explores the friendship between Scotland’s greatest filmmaker and his lifelong companion Peter Jewell through interviews and Douglas's unseen 8mm home films. Archer tells us more Read more »| 16 Jan 2024 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival and GSFF team up to celebrate Bill Douglas
One of Scotland’s greatest filmmakers, Bill Douglas, will receive much love at the upcoming Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival, as GFF hosts new documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend while GSFF opens with some of Douglas's 8mm shorts Read more »| 16 Jan 2024 -
New ReleasesThe Holdovers
Director Alexander Payne balances emotional realism with retro fun and biting comedy as he teams up with Paul Giamatti once again Read more »| 15 Jan 2024 -
OpinionHold the Scotch: Poor Things, Lanthimos, Gray and Scotland
The prospect of Yorgos Lanthimos adapting Poor Things has been mouthwatering for Alasdair Gray fans. But by changing the setting from Glasgow to London, has the book's political message been lost? Read more »| 09 Jan 2024 -
New ReleasesPoor Things
Alasdair Gray’s skew-whiff take on Frankenstein is brought to life with wit, passion and invention by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, while Emma Stone is a revelation as Poor Things' wide-eyed heroine Bella Read more »| 09 Jan 2024 -
New ReleasesScala!!!
The delightfully debauched Scala cinema in London receives loving tributes from the likes of John Waters and Adam Buxton Read more »| 02 Jan 2024 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: January 2024
Fokus returns, GFT bring a bunch of guests to Glasgow for Q&As, and Cameo host a Jonathan Glazer season – here are January's best film events... Read more »| 22 Dec 2023 -
FestivalsFokus, Films from Germany: 2024 preview
Fokus returns for an eighth edition with a sharply curated lineup of brand-new German films, recent highlights from some of Germany's best contemporary filmmakers and some little-seen gems made in the German Democratic Republic Read more »| 21 Dec 2023 -
New ReleasesPriscilla
Sofia Coppola’s latest is a lucid sketch of a young woman's universal growing pains under extraordinary circumstances Read more »| 21 Dec 2023