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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FestivalsThe Voices
There’s an unwritten rule that has been present throughout filmmaking history: when making a movie in which an insane Ryan Reynolds talks to a sour Sco... Read more »| 17 Mar 2015 -
Videos
X + Y director Morgan Matthews at Glasgow Film Festival
Director Morgan Matthews discusses his understated drama X + Y at its Scottish premiere in Glasgow. The film centres on a young maths prodigy with autism, pl... Read more »| 13 Mar 2015 -
News
The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015
Following the success of last year’s Skinny Short Film Competition, we’re once again on the hunt for the most exciting new voices in short film-m... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
New ReleasesWhite Shadow
This could have strayed close to 1962 ‘documentary’ Mondo cane or its dubious descendants, exploiting tribal customs through Golden Bough exotici... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – March 2015
It gets a bit dusty in this month's event column as Manchester institution Cornerhouse delivers its final ¡Viva! events and a celebratory That’s a Wrap! film season Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
OpinionScotland Film Event Highlights – March 2015
There's a horror tinge to this month's film highlights: the Daughters of Darkness spook the GFT, The Rocky Horror Picture Show's audience members terrify Cineworld and a whole night of All Night Horror Madness at Cameo and the Grosvenor Read more »| 09 Mar 2015
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Festivals
Speaking in Tongues: Beyond Babel Multilingual Film Festival
Part of Humanities in Public, Beyond Babel celebrates multilingual life and the richness of those who speak several languages. We take a closer look at the trio of films in the one-day festival Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Maidan
Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan is a film that achieves a visceral sense of immediacy by keeping its distance. Shooting from judiciously chosen vantage points... Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Videos
Behind the Scenes of Misery Guts: Rory Alexander Stewart and Cast
Last year, The Skinny teamed up with Innis & Gunn to launch a competition to find the best micro-budget short film (a short film produced for less than &... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
New ReleasesLife of Riley
Alain Resnais’ final film, Life of Riley, premiered just three weeks before the director’s passing. An adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's play o... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Simian Stop Motion: Interview with Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson
With their respective debut short films, Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson seemed to pick up more silverware on the festival circuit than the US team do at the Olympics. They're both in the director's chair for new collaboration Monkey Love Experiments Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
FestivalsSci-Fi on a Shoestring: Skinny Short Film Competition-winner Rory Alexander Stewart
Rory Alexander Stewart, winner of The Skinny's inaugural Short Film Competition, tells us how he made prize-winner Good Girl ahead of its follow-up's world premiere at Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Videos
Small Faces cast reunite for 20th anniversary screening at Glasgow Film Festival
Tongs ya bass! Glasgow Film Festival 2015 came to a close in style on 1 Mar with a cast and crew reunion for Small Faces – which screened on ... Read more »| 05 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Adiós, Cornerhouse: ¡Viva! 2015
As Cornerhouse prepares to move to HOME, its Spanish and Latin American Festival gets a makeover, too. We preview the first in a trio of ¡Viva! weekenders Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: FrightFest
Zombies, dead bastards, killers, demons, beasties, Katie Isabelle, rage monkeys... that'll be your FrightFest, then. Read more »| 04 Mar 2015