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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InterviewsAndrew Dominik on Nick Cave & One More Time With Feeling
Australian director Andrew Dominik recalls his first time meeting Nick Cave, and explains how his Cave doc One More Time With Feeling is really a f... Read more »| 07 Sep 2016 -
Festivals
SMHAFF announces 2016 line-up
Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival announced details of its tenth edition today, which will include a play by Alan Bissett on the life of Syd Barrett, and Emma Jayne Park's new dance work for children, Experts In Short Trousers Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
FestivalsTake One Action: Kicking against the radical right
With a wave of right-wing rhetoric bringing Donald Trump to within a hair’s breadth of the US presidency, we look at two films from this year’s Take One Action! Film Festival kicking back against America’s lurch to the right Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
David Mackenzie: Trying to Avoid Genre
Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie, director of Young Adam, Perfect Sense and Starred Up, talks genre, atmosphere and shooting under pressure ahead of the re... Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
Taika Waititi on Hunt for the Wilderpeople
From the set of Marvel's latest movie, Taika Waititi takes a break from shooting Thor: Ragnarok to discuss his thrilling indie coming-of-age film Hunt for the Wilderpeople Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Dvd ReviewsMatinee
Joe Dante's 1993 film Matinee, a celebration of art over war, movies over Armageddon, is the closest thing the Gremlins director has to a lost masterpiece. S... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016
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Film Events
Scalarama 2016 Highlights
Born out of nostalgia for scurrilous London rep house the Scala, Scalarama has become one of the highlights of the UK's cinema calendar. We pick out some of the best screenings happening in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
InterviewsIra Sachs on Little Men
Ira Sachs is proving to be one of the most humane voices in American cinema. We catch up with him ahead of the release of his sixth film, Little Men Ira Sac... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
New Releases
Hell or High Water
Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster star in Hell or High Water, a gripping crime drama from David Mackenzie Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Festivals
London Film Festival announces 2016 programme
The programme for the 60th BFI London Film Festival was announced today, with new films from the likes of Ben Wheatley, Andrea Arnold and Xavier Dolan in the lineup, and stars like Cillian Murphy, Nicole Kidman and David Oyelowo expected to attend Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
NewsStranger Things Season 2: What we know so far
Check out the teaser trailer for Stranger Things, as the Duffer Brothers give some hint on what to expect, including a James Cameron influence Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (29 Aug-5 Sep)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the new comic promo for Thor, the latest from Woody A... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
New Releases
Things to Come
Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy professor going through a crisis in the new work from Eden director Mia Hansen-Løve “I’m luc... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Hangmen Also Die!
Fritz Lang collaborates with Bertolt Brecht in this ripped-from-the-headlines account of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Like all Lang films, it's rich with atmosphere, paranoia and suspicion Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Sid & Nancy
A 30th anniversary restoration of Alex Cox’s cult movie, detailing the doomed romance of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen Read more »| 29 Aug 2016