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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InterviewsAlexander Skarsgård: “Even in a sex scene, you can’t show a butt or a nipple”
In coming-of-age tale The Diary of a Teenage Girl, True Blood star Alexander Skarsgård goes from vampire to cradle robber. The Skinny talks to the Swedish hunk about teenage sexuality, Hollywood's prudishness, Zoolander, and a moustachioed Tarzan Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Dvd Reviews3 Women
Reportedly inspired by a dream, 3 Women represents Robert Altman at his most experimental – the film’s eerie underwater shots (or, more technical... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Stalag 17
Greater than The Great Escape, American prisoner of war tale Stalag 17 is a darkly comic theatre adaptation from director Billy Wilder. Simultaneously fiery ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Videos
Peter by Chris Cronin: The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015
Shortlisted in The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015, director Chris Cronin explains the inspirations and processes behind his film, Peter Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Short Film Competition
The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015 Shortlist
We're delighted to announce the shortlist of films in contention for The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015. Following our inaugural 2014 competition, ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Cemetery Without Crosses
Revenge plots have an appealing simplicity – they clarify everyone's motivation and streamline the story towards its inevitable conclusion. Their spars... Read more »| 27 Jul 2015
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InterviewsAna Lily Amirpour on her Iranian vampire Western
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour's tale of a righteous, chador-clad vampire who's cleaning up her one horse town, is the year's most beguiling movie. She tells us about the film's influences ahead of its UK DVD release Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
New Releases
Best of Enemies
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's gripping doc is structured like a boxing movie, but in this case the pugilists are intellectual heavyweights. In the ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2015 -
Videos
Robert Carlyle on The Legend of Barney Thomson
Trainspotting and 28 Weeks Later star Robert Carlyle discusses his directorial debut, the Glasgow-set black comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson. Carlyle sta... Read more »| 22 Jul 2015 -
Interviews
Johnnie To: The Godfather of Hong Kong Gangster Cinema
While visiting Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hong Kong action master Johnnie To discusses the aesthetics of violence and the changing nature of the Hong Kong film industry Read more »| 17 Jul 2015 -
New ReleasesThe Wonders
Vivid and grainy 16mm photography evokes the notion of a family out of step in Alice Rohrwacher's sophomore feature, The Wonders. A beguiling and impressioni... Read more »| 13 Jul 2015 -
Interviews
Lost in Music: Mia Hansen-Løve on French Touch movie Eden
Mia Hansen-Løve discusses her brilliant new film Eden, an intimate epic telling the history of the French Touch music scene through one DJ's bloodshot eyes Read more »| 13 Jul 2015 -
Opinion
The Films of 2015 so far: Our mid-year report
We're just over halfway through 2015 and, in terms of film, it's shaping up to be a doozy. Here are the movies our film writers have loved so far. Will any of them make the long haul to our end of year list? Check back in six months Read more »| 09 Jul 2015 -
Festivals
EIFF 2015: The Highlights
Our film team have decompressed after 11 fun days at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Here are the nine flicks we enjoyed most at this year's festival Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
New Releases
Song of the Sea
Back in February, Song of the Sea was memorably described by one Oscar voter as “that obscure freakin’ Chinese fuckin’ thing that nobody ev... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015