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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InterviewsEIFF 2023: Variety’s disruptive voyeurism at 40
On its 40th anniversary, Bette Gordon’s 1983 feminist classic Variety is back in cinemas. Let this subversive, sensuous neo-noir take you to the most uncomfortable places Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsEIFF 2023: Babak Jalali on Fremont
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival closes with Babak Jalali's Fremont. Jalali tells about his desire to make a film with empathy and compassion, but without the schmaltz Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival 2023: Our Top Ten Picks
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival is smaller than usual but there's no shortage of great films. Here are ten titles we’d urge you to see Read more »| 11 Aug 2023 -
InterviewsSam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping on Femme
Directors Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping explore myriad modes of masculinity in their bristling queer thriller Femme, which sees a drag artist out to exact revenge on a homophobic thug Read more »| 31 Jul 2023 -
New ReleasesKokomo City
Kokomo City is a timely and powerful documentary exploring the lives of Black trans sex workers Read more »| 31 Jul 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: August 2023
EIFF is getting the east coast excited, but there's plenty of cinema action on the west coast too, with big screen epics, a Lars von Trier season and a new festival celebrating artists' films made in Scotland Read more »| 31 Jul 2023
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New ReleasesTalk to Me
Talk to Me confirms horror is alive and well with a skin-crawling possession story that makes for a promising, hard-hitting debut Read more »| 24 Jul 2023 -
New ReleasesYou Hurt My Feelings
Nicole Holofcener teams up once again with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who shines as an author who discovers the truth hurts when she overhears her husband discussing her new novel Read more »| 24 Jul 2023 -
New ReleasesBarbie
Greta Gerwig's Barbie adaptation is an inventive, visually stunning take on a pop culture icon, but Ryan Gosling's Ken is its true highlight Read more »| 19 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Mark Cousins on My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
The prolific Mark Cousins returns with the mischievous documentary My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock, which sees Hitchcock looking back and commenting on his vast career. Cousins tells us how he found a fresh approach to discussing this storied filmmaker Read more »| 18 Jul 2023 -
Opinion28 Days Later, 20 Years Later
Remember in the early 2010s when every other film and TV show on our screens seemed to be about zombies? You probably have the popularity of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to thank. Two decades after its release, we look back at this horror masterpiece Read more »| 18 Jul 2023 -
New ReleasesMy Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Mark Cousins’ playful retrospective re-animates the Hollywood auteur to bring out the man behind the classics Read more »| 17 Jul 2023 -
InterviewsA New Wave: Johnny Barrington on Silent Roar
Johnny Barrington's Silent Roar is a disarmingly leftfield coming-of-age drama that makes evocative use of its setting on the Isle of Lewis. We chat with Barrington ahead of his film's premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 12 Jul 2023 -
NewsEdinburgh Film Festival: The 2023 programme
Edinburgh Film Festival reveals its 2023 programme, which includes a documentary on Irvine Welsh, a patricide thriller set in the Highlands and possibly the year's best film, alongside new work from Kelly Reichardt, Christian Petzold and Ira Sachs Read more »| 06 Jul 2023 -
New ReleasesThe Damned Don't Cry
Fyzal Boulifa's new film follows a middle-aged single mother and her teen son as they both attempt to use their bodies to escape poverty in Tangier Read more »| 05 Jul 2023