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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Art
On The Move: Moving Image at Glasgow International
There’s a rich collection of moving image work coming up at this year’s Glasgow International. Here are five moving image exhibitions to seek out Read more »| 29 May 2024 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Events: June 2024
There are loads of great LGBTQ+ films in cinemas this month to coincide with Pride, plus screenings of work from the Edinburgh leg of the 48 Hour Film Project and Doug Aubrey's marathon retrospective Legacy of an Invisible Bullet Read more »| 29 May 2024 -
Interviews
Rule of Three: George MacKay on The Beast
George MacKay shows off his acting versatility – and his French skills – in the inventive sci-fi The Beast, where he performs three versions of a character across three timelines. He tells us more about this thrilling and wildly ambitious film Read more »| 28 May 2024 -
Film Events
Stream Queens: Explore the best of queer cinema with MUBI
Explore the history of LGBTQ+ cinema this Pride by digging into queer classics and underrated gems on MUBI Read more »| 28 May 2024 -
Interviews
Scotland on Screen: Duncan Cowles' short films
Ahead of the world premiere of Duncan Cowles' debut feature film Silent Men at Sheffield Doc/Fest, we look back at three of his recent short films Read more »| 27 May 2024 -
New Releases
Gasoline Rainbow
The Ross Brothers take a bunch of teenagers on a Kerouac-style road movie adventure, shooting this fiction film in their unique style that suggests you're watching a fly-on-the-dashboard documentary Read more »| 27 May 2024
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New Releases
The Beast
Léa Seydoux and George MacKay play characters dealing with love and loss across three timelines in Bertrand Bonello’s gorgeously instinctual sci-fi romance The Beast Read more »| 27 May 2024 -
Interviews
Delving into the gross, touching and audacious Hoard
Hoard, which tells a story of hoarding, grief and sexual coming-of-age, is the best British debut since Aftersun. Writer-director Luna Carmoon, along with actors Joseph Quinn and Saura Lightfoot-Leon, tell us more Read more »| 14 May 2024 -
New Releases
Hoard
Hoard is a strange and startling coming-of-age film full of visual invention from the exciting new filmmaker Luna Carmoon Read more »| 13 May 2024 -
New Releases
Tiger Stripes
An ambitious, bumpy coming-of-ager, Tiger Stripes draws from Malaysian folklore to bring the horrors of puberty to the fore Read more »| 13 May 2024 -
Festivals
Edinburgh Film Festival will open with Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun
The much-anticipated adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun will open EIFF, and the festival also announced that its short film prize will be named in honour of Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker Read more »| 09 May 2024 -
New Releases
Made In England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
This Scorsese-guided waltz through the great duo’s work is an absolute delight Read more »| 08 May 2024 -
Opinion
Shallow Grave is 30, and Edinburgh renting is still a nightmare
Shallow Grave is back in cinemas this month for its 30th anniversary. Looking back at this dazzling landmark in Scottish cinema, we have many thoughts, most of them concerned with the nightmare that is renting a flat in Edinburgh Read more »| 07 May 2024 -
Interviews
Scotland on Screen: Niamh McKeown on Dinosaur
Niamh McKeown tells us how she went from making Black Swan knockoffs with her pals to working with the producers of Fleabag on her first TV show Dinosaur Read more »| 02 May 2024 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Events: May 2024
We look ahead to three film festivals coming your way in May: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, The Edinburgh Folk Film Gathering and the inaugural edition of Falastin Film Festival Read more »| 01 May 2024