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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InterviewsPet Sights and Sounds: Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy
Love & Mercy tells the story of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson without falling back on the many cliches of the music biopic. Director Bill Pohlad reveals how he brought the life of this troubled genius to the screen Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Film Events
Scotland Film Event Highlights – July 2015
This month's highlights include a celebration of Orson Welles at Filmhouse, a weekend of films featuring The Who at DCA, and a geek's paradise at Comic Con at Glasgow's CCA Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – July 2015
This month there's a chance to relive the summer of 96 at the movies, compare two twisted takes on American suburbia and catch a doc on the rise of ear-bashing industrial rock Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Interviews
Chasing Amy: Asif Kapadia on his Amy Winehouse documentary
Asif Kapadia's latest documentary charts the rise and premature demise of controversial soul singer Amy Winehouse. We talk to the sharp-eyed director about the film’s genesis and challenges ahead of its UK premier Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
A Letter to Three Wives
Like the following year's All About Eve, this 1949 mega-hit was adapted from fiction published in the pages of Cosmopolitan. It too is a whip-smart melodrama... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Story of My Death
Albert Serra’s mischievous allegory for the death knell of the Enlightenment and the dawning of Romanticism is a truly singular work. Serra expresses t... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015
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Dvd Reviews
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Nelson Algren novel on which this is based asks readers to relate to a philandering junkie card dealer whose ultimate ambition is to be a jazz drummer. T... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
FestivalsEden
Mia Hansen-Løve is a master of party scenes – the standout moments from her two previous features (Goodbye First Love and The Father of My ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Chimes at Midnight
A widespread and misguided perception of Orson Welles’ career – that it was all downhill from Citizen Kane – is turned on its head by Chime... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
EIFF 2015: Scottish Mussel
Scottish Mussel follows Martin Compston as a Glaswegian schemer moonlighting as an illegal pearl fisher in the Highland streams, with the help of his bu... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
EIFF 2015: Liza, the Fox-Fairy
The directorial debut of Károly Ujj Mészáros, Liza, the Fox-Fairy, plays like a Hungarian cocktail of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Roy Ander... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
45 Years and Ainslie Henderson win Edinburgh Film Festival awards
Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years has won the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Michael Powell Award for Best British Film, with the 2015 Festival aw... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Jupiter Ascending
In the Wachowskis' latest film, Channing Tatum plays a flying wolfman from space. The film to fit that description is going to be outlandish, unusual, action... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
Edinburgh Film Festival announces Best of the Fest line-up
The list of films for the annual Best of the Fest screenings to conclude the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival has been revealed, ahead of the Festi... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
Hector
Jake Gavin’s debut feature is a standard ‘elderly man sets out in search of forgiveness and redemption’ narrative, but with added British i... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015