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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NewsScottish Film Events: July 2023
SAFAR, the UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema, comes to GFT, while DCA and Cameo get us revved up for Barbie with Greta Gerwig seasons Read more »| 04 Jul 2023 -
New ReleasesSmoking Causes Coughing
A band of tobacco-powered superheroes save the world in this brisk and daft comedy from the mind of Quentin Dupieux (Deerskin, Rubber) Read more »| 03 Jul 2023 -
FestivalsFremont to close Edinburgh Film Festival 2023
The curtain will come down on the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival with the immigration tale Fremont from Iranian-British filmmaker Babak Jalali Read more »| 27 Jun 2023 -
New ReleasesLa Syndicaliste
Isabelle Huppert stars as Maureen Kearney in this compelling real-life whistleblower drama set in the world of French nuclear power and politics Read more »| 26 Jun 2023 -
New ReleasesCannes 2023: Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet became only the third woman director to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes with Anatomy of a Fall, a courtroom drama that spins the genre on its head Read more »| 20 Jun 2023 -
New ReleasesThe Super 8 Years
French author Annie Ernaux – working with her son David Ernaux-Briot – has turned old home video footage into a delicate visual odyssey Read more »| 19 Jun 2023
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FestivalsSilent Roar opens Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023
The opening gala film for the new-look Edinburgh International Film Festival will be Outer Hebrides-set teen movie Silent Roar Read more »| 14 Jun 2023 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Simone Smith on The Möbius Trip
Glasgow filmmaker Simone Smith talks us through her stunning new short The Möbius Trip and her drive to make bold, uninhibited work Read more »| 07 Jun 2023 -
New ReleasesWar Pony
War Pony, the debut from Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, is a soulful, empathetic look at two teens making their way on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota Read more »| 07 Jun 2023 -
InterviewsTom Hardiman on one-shot whodunnit Medusa Deluxe
Medusa Deluxe, a delirious murder mystery set at a hairdressing competition, is the most original British film of the year. We chat to director Tom Hardiman about his ingenious whodunnit, which seemingly unfolds in a single-shot Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
NewsScottish Film Events: June 2023
This month The Folk Film Gathering returns with a focus on Ukrainian cinema and gives some classic Play for Today films the big screen treatment Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
InterviewsTina Satter on NSA whistleblower thriller Reality
Life proves stranger than fiction in Reality, Tina Satter's gripping real-time thriller about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner. Satter tells us why she wanted to dramatise Winner's life by using verbatim transcripts of her interrogation by the FBI Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
New ReleasesReality
Sydney Sweeney stars as whistleblower Reality Winner in this compelling, quiet-spoken thriller based on dialogue taken from Winner's FBI interrogation Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
New ReleasesThe Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer explores the banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, which just picked up the Grand Prix at Cannes Read more »| 28 May 2023 -
New ReleasesMedusa Deluxe
Thomas Hardiman's debut feature Medusa Deluxe is an inventive one-shot murder mystery set in the cutthroat world of competitive hairdressing Read more »| 26 May 2023