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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Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – June 2015
Cockney gangsters, dandy vampires, gonzo journalists and singing nuns: it's another eclectic cinematic offering this month Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
New ReleasesListen Up Philip
With its portentous narration and bike-riding/book writing aesthetic, this third feature from Alex Ross Perry is a masterclass in tarnished twee. Shot on fad... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
FestivalsElectric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Following Not Quite Hollywood, his 2008 documentary about the Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 80s, writer-director Mark Hartley returns to pr... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
OpinionA Must-Listen: The 'You Must Remember This' podcast
Like Serial, but for movie nuts – you should be listening to film podcast You Must Remember This Read more »| 29 May 2015 -
New ReleasesMan Up
British romantic comedy Man Up has an unfortunate title in both evoking an all-too tired phrase and being quite misleading, as it’s not some man-child ... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
Interviews
Lost River star Iain De Caestecker on working with Ryan Gosling
We catch up with Iain De Caestecker to ask him about his experience of making Lost River with Drive star Ryan Gosling. The rising Scottish star discusses filming in Detroit's deserted suburbs and where to find Scotland's national drink in Hollywood Read more »| 28 May 2015
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Festivals
Edinburgh Film Festival unveils full 2015 programme
The full programme for the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival has been announced ahead of the 2015 festival this June. Among the films in the runnin... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Thief
One last big job and then he's out for good. Frank (Caan) is a master jewel thief operating under the same illusion as the gangsters, dealers and hitmen of a... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Walerian Borowczyk’s uniquely erotic take on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic gothic tale of split personality re-imagines Dr Jekyll’s experiment... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Paper Moon
There was a time when Peter Bogdanovich was a superstar director, and after making megahits with the monochrome elegy The Last Picture Show and the breakneck... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Cat People
Made between his milestones American Gigolo and Mishima, Paul Schrader’s Cat People is a blend of the more commercially minded concerns of the former a... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
New Releases
Tomorrowland: A World Beyond
With The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, director Brad Bird demonstrated a keen interest in retrofuturism, a creative trend in which futuristic technology is... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Interviews
Audio Terror: Carnival of Souls at HOME
There are several great cinema screenings and events at HOME over its opening weekend, but perhaps the most innovative is one in which the film has been removed from the equation. Welcome to the audio-only adaptation of 1962 horror Carnival of Souls Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
New Releases
Timbuktu
One of the many memorable sequences in Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu depicts a group of teenage boys playing football without a ball, as ball games have be... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Festivals
EIFF unveils Scottish talent lineup for 2015
A clutch of new Scottish films have been added to the lineup for the 2015 Edinburgh Film Festival, with new work featuring Frankie Boyle and Peter Mullan, an... Read more »| 19 May 2015