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 ReleasesLife
Control director Anton Corbijn returns with Life, a study in the deification of James Dean. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015 -
New Releases
Captive
The latest edition to the emerging genre of 'faith-based-on-a-true-story' films for the evangelical set, Captive recounts the harrowing ordeal of real-life f... Read more »| 23 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
There's a scene in Terence Fisher's Hammer Horror classic in which Dr Bonner (Diffring) shows someone a photo of himself from decades ago and they gasp at th... Read more »| 22 Sep 2015 -
New ReleasesMacbeth
Even with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, Justin Kurzel presents a very Scottish Macbeth. Read more »| 21 Sep 2015 -
New Releases
Horse Money
To offer a reductive description of Pedro Costa’s Horse Money for those unfamiliar with it or him as a filmmaker, imagine the following: Labyrinth, exc... Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Music
Starred Up Reworked: Track Premiere
Listen to 'Credit', the closing track from the reworked soundtrack to David Mackenzie's BAFTA Scotland-winning film Starred Up, due for a vinyl release this November Read more »| 15 Sep 2015
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ArtHOME announces Oct 2015-Mar 2016 season
Manchester multi-arts venue HOME announces its Autumn/Winter season of art, theatre and film Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
StudentsStudent Guide: Movie Tribes at University
Cinephile? Contrarian? Ironist? Meet the tribes of film fans swarming the dorms at university. Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Festivals
Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2015
Finding good LGBT cinema on UK screens can be a challenge. Praise be, then, for SQIFF (24-27 Sep), a new community-focused film festival representing and reflecting queer identity Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Festivals
Harold Crooks on The Price We Pay
Harold Crooks' documentary on corporate tax avoidance kicks off Take One Action! Film Festival in style. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Festivals
Take One Action 2015: Festival Preview
Take One Action! is the UK’s leading social change film festival, looking at humanitarian concerns. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Robert Sheehan: Returning to the Supernatural
The Misfits star discusses The Messenger, where he plays an unwashed weirdo who can speak to the dead. Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Festivals
Scalarama: An annual celebration of cinema
We look ahead to the annual festival that brings together the UK's film clubs and indie exhibitors for a month of cinema celebration Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Event Highlights – September 2015
Scalarama, Tremors and Masterpieces of Polish Cinema feature in our picks for Glasgow and Edinburgh. Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Opinion
Our Favourite British Films 2010-2015
To mark the publication of new film book New British Cinema from Submarine to 12 Years a Slave, we polled The Skinny's film writers to ascertain their favourite British films of the decade so far Read more »| 02 Sep 2015