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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NewsManchester International Film Fest reveals line-up
Today Manchester International Film Festival announced its official selection for its second edition, which includes features and shorts starring the likes of James Franco, Charles Dance, Martin Freeman, Maxine Peake and John Hurt Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
New ReleasesThe Second Mother
Contradictions are the order of the day in Anna Muylaert's subversive yet heartwarming The Second Mother. The tone is a deft balance between class drama... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
New Releases
Room
Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, based on Emma Donoghue's best-selling novel, is a beautiful and humane response to inhumanity Joy (Brie Larson... Read more »| 07 Jan 2016 -
BooksProjecting pages: When books become films
Taking books to the screen has long made up much of the film industry's output. We look at the creative issues involved in the process, and then on to some of the most interesting recent and upcoming literary adaptations. Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
New Releases
The Revenant
Iñárritu and DiCaprio reach for transcendence, but The Revenant is a slog There’s a gripping 90-minute survival thriller buried som... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Festivals
Hail, Caesar! to open Glasgow Film Festival 2016
Glasgow Film Festival will open with the new film from the Coen Brothers, and close with Charlie Kaufman’s celebrated stop-motion animation Anomalisa ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016
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Dvd Reviews
Love
Gaspar Noé's Love was shot in 3D, but it doesn't add any dimensions to its characters “My biggest dream is to make a movie that truly depicts s... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – January 2016
The New Year gets off to a promising start with HOME’s wide-reaching celebration of Mancunian screenwriter Jim Allen, while FACT have an interesting screening to compliment their Follow exhibition Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
New Releases
The Danish Girl
The performances are what sustains Tom Hooper's beautiful but buttoned-up The Danish Girl A fictionalized account of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, Tom Hoop... Read more »| 01 Jan 2016 -
Film EventsScotland Film Event Highlights – January 2016
This month's film column begins and ends with a trivia question. In between there's the best of January's film happenings, including a chance to experience Rotterdam Film Festival from the comfort of your local cinema. Read more »| 31 Dec 2015 -
New Releases
Daddy’s Home
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's talents are wasted in this lame bro-com Read more »| 26 Dec 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Ricki and the Flash
Working from a screenplay by Diablo Cody, Ricki and the Flash feels like a compendium of director Jonathan Demme’s career trademarks. In setup and exec... Read more »| 22 Dec 2015 -
Opinion
The 22 Must-See Films of 2016
From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »| 22 Dec 2015 -
Music
The Skinny Review of 2015
The Skinny team look back on 2015; it was a year of monumental art, genre-bending comedy, myth-shattering in the world of film, and one or two parties Read more »| 22 Dec 2015 -
News
Where You’re Meant To Be: Watch the trailer
The first trailer for new documentary Where You're Meant To Be, starring former Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat, has been released ahead of its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival. Read more »| 17 Dec 2015