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 ReleasesEIFF 2026: The Peril at Pincer Point
With The Peril at Pincer Point, directors Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine have created a wonderfully atmospheric low-budget cinema marvel that sits somewhere between Lake Michigan Monster and Widow’s Bay Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2026: Mission
George MacKay is perfectly cast as a young man going through an existential crisis in Paul Wright's Mission. His full-bodied performance helps us overlook some of the film's narrative flaws Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2026: Her Private Hell
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest is as stylised, camp and violent as we've come to expect from this cult filmmaker, but unfortunately it's also deeply boring Read more »| 16 Aug 2026 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2026: The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight
Theodore Schaefer's black-and-white portmanteau shot on 16mm film is a visual, aural and intellectual treat, a wonderful ode to the energy of New York City and a superb showcase of the unique star power of its lead actor, Gus Birney Read more »| 16 Aug 2026 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2026: Capsized
There are shades of Little Miss Sunshine in this deft comedy centred on a family coming together during a crisis, which features terrific performances for a cast that includes Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe Read more »| 15 Aug 2026 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2026: Pretty Babies
Tyler-Marie Evans’ bittersweet debut follows two high school girls who take to the open road with the hope of making it to Hollywood. The director's control of the film's dreamier sequences is more sure than her handling of its painful realities Read more »| 14 Aug 2026
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New ReleasesEIFF 2026: Out There
Simon Ryninks's comedy about a UFO-obsessed community in Wales might not have the budget of a Steven Spielberg extraterrestrial epic, but it has the same heartwarming sensibility Read more »| 14 Aug 2026 -
New ReleasesThe End of Oak Street
Producer J.J. Abrams' fingers are all over this Amblin-tinged, 1980s-set adventure, but there are still some great sequences from David Robert Mitchell in this tale of a suburban family trying to evade dinosaurs Read more »| 14 Aug 2026 -
New ReleasesBad Day at the Office
Chee Keong Cheung’s John Hannah-starring Bad Day at the Office takes its action cues from first-person video games, but unfortunately that's also the level of its drama. Still, Hannah's charm shines through Read more »| 14 Aug 2026 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Paul Wright on Mission
Film fans have been waiting a long time for the new Paul Wright movie. The Scottish director has once again paired with George MacKay for Mission, a beguiling study of urban alienation that continues Wright's interest in diving into disturbed psyches Read more »| 13 Aug 2026 -
New ReleasesSunny Dancer
This mildly raunchy teen comedy about cancer survivors having a lovely time at summer camp has an excellent young cast led by Bella Ramsey, but too often it slips into cancer movie clichés Read more »| 11 Aug 2026 -
OpinionTen films to see at Edinburgh Film Festival 2026
We suggest ten must-see films at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, from a dreamy coming-of-age film to a bruising dementia drama via a Victoria-era found-footage horror and Sean Connery kicking ass Read more »| 10 Aug 2026 -
OpinionMore Hockney than Cockney: In praise of Sexy Beast
EIFF's 25th anniversary screening of Sexy Beast will remind us of the film's place near the very top of the British gangster film canon Read more »| 06 Aug 2026 -
OpinionThe Film's the Thing: Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet at 30
Kenneth Branagh will be celebrated in a big way at this year's EIFF, and rightly so! He helped resurrect Shakespeare on screen Read more »| 06 Aug 2026 -
FestivalsIsle of Fight: Louis Paxton on EIFF opener The Incomer
Following a celebrated world premiere at Sundance, Louis Paxton's debut feature, The Incomer, will open Edinburgh International Film Festival. Paxton discusses the trials of getting the film off the ground and the joy he had in making it Read more »| 05 Aug 2026