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 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 -
Festivals
Sci-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 -
VideosSmall 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 -
FestivalsAdiós, 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
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VideosCarol Morley discusses The Falling at Glasgow Film Festival 2015
At its Scottish premiere, writer-director Carol Morley discusses her new film The Falling, the follow-up to her celebrated documentary Dreams of a Life, at G... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
News
Radiator wins Glasgow Film Festival audience award
It was announced on Sunday that Tom Browne’s debut feature Radiator has won the first Glasgow Film Festival audience award. The film – which foc... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
CineSkinny Awards: The Best of GFF15
We've studied our ticket stubs from two weeks of covering Glasgow Film Festival and have chosen our winners for the annual CineSkinny Awards. For the first time, our readers have got involved too and told us their film of the festival Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Pride
Doing for the LGBT community what The Help did for African Americans, Pride conspires toward a feel-good conclusion by affirming the human spirit's tenacity ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
CineDaily – 1 Mar: Force Majeure, Small Faces, today's reviews and more
Film of the Day: Force Majeure [GFT, 7.30pm] What we said: "In a formally playful fashion and manner largely free of didacticism, Östlund skewer... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
CineDaily – 28 Feb: Eden, Dreamcatcher, today's reviews and more
Film of the Day: Eden [GFT, 8.40pm] What we said: "It’s a kind of vampire movie, with our protagonist [Paul] trapped in the crepuscular purgatory of... Read more »| 28 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Bringing Da Funk to GFF: Mia Hansen-Løve on Eden
This year's GFF music on film strand, Sound and Vision, is headlined by Mia Hansen-Løve's brilliant new film Eden, an intimate epic telling the history of the French Touch music scene through one DJ's bloodshot eyes Read more »| 28 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: On the Trail of the Far Fur Country
The integrity of early documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty’s work has been debated by film scholars for decades. Nevertheless his 1922 debut Nanook o... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Revenge of The Mekons
After decades of sustained critical acclaim, The Mekons remain an obscure cult band with few commercial prospects. This is a grave injustice, and one which J... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015