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 ReleasesTaxi Tehran
Ingeniously circumventing the Iranian state’s ban on his filmmaking, Jafar Panahi’s Golden Bear winner Taxi Tehran is filmed almost entirely with... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
FestivalsPlay Poland 2015: Preview
90s disco underdogs, sex changes, and bringing cartoons to the kids: we get with the programme as Play Poland turns five Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Festivals
Scotland Loves Anime 2015: Preview
We take a look at some of the highlights of this year's Scotland Loves Anime event, one of the best times of the year for animation fans or those just inclined towards cult-attracting fare from the Far East. There will be monsters Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Film EventsScotland Film Event Highlights – October 2015
Light and shade this month, with Halloween screenings and a celebration of love at Paisley Abbey Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
New Releases
Suffragette
From its opening scene set in the veritable hellscape of the Glass House Laundry, a literal sweatshop where women are forced into servitude as children and l... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Festivals
Southside Film Festival 2015: Preview
The fifth Southside Film Festival comes to Glasgow, with Martin Scorsese's Hugo among the highlights. Read more »| 05 Oct 2015
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Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – October 2015
This month's column is dominated by two events: multiple screenings marking the date when Marty McFly sees his future in Back to the Future Part II, and Halloween, the horror-buff's favourite night of the year Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
New Releases
Red Army
Gabe Polsky’s compelling film about the world-beating Soviet ice hockey team that dominated the sport from 1954 to 1991 is a swift and incisive examina... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Deep Red
Heavily influential on John Carpenter's Halloween, Italian slasher classic Deep Red comes to DVD. Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
New ReleasesSicario
With one leading Republican nominee currently bloviating about building a "giant wall" between the US and Mexico, Sicario feels like a timely critique of Ame... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Seconds
There’s a good reason this paranoid thriller bombed at the 1966 box office – it’s possibly the bleakest film ever made. John Frankenheimer&... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
New Releases
The Martian
He's already been beamed into the International Space Station by NASA, and now Matt Damon's wise-cracking castaway is arriving in UK cinemas in Ridley Scott's new sci-fi, The Martian. Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
New Releases
The Intern
Audiences are so used to Robert De Niro mortgaging off his reputation that his appearances in predictable fluff like The Intern no longer seem quite so unpal... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Turbo Kid
An affectionately schlocky homage to bottom-shelf 80s genre flicks, Turbo Kid goes all out on the nostalgia front, packing View-Masters, Rubik’s Cubes ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Night and the City
Few films are as drenched in fear, anger and desperation as Night and the City. It was Jules Dassin’s first film in exile from America after being blac... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015