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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FestivalsEdinburgh International Film Festival seeks student critics for 2014
Edinburgh International Film Festival search for the next generation of film critics from Scotland's universities and colleges to make up the Student Critics Jury at the 2014 festival Read more »| 04 Apr 2014 -
VideosRichard Ayoade on The Double: Video interview at Glasgow Film Festival
Richard Ayoade follows up Submarine with The Double, a nightmarish adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella of the same name. It stars Jesse Eisenber... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – April 2014
Hang on, how is it April already? Nevermind, there are films to watch, including classics at FACT, oddities at The Dancehouse and a live score weekend at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
InterviewsExistential Nightmare: Richard Ayoade on The Double
Richard Ayoade doesn't like himself very much. That's OK, though, ‘cause we think he's great. Here he is trying to downplay his considerable talents ahead of the release of his new film, The Double Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
InterviewsAgro-culture: Xavier Dolan on Tom at the Farm
French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan discusses his brilliant Hitchcockian thriller Tom at the Farm, and we’re surprised to find that at the time of making the film he hadn’t seen any Hitchcock Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
Film Events
Scotland Film Events Highlights – April 2014
There'll be screams this month as horror fest Dead by Dawn is resurrected at Filmhouse and Bowie's codpiece gets an airing at Cameo. But there's laughs too as That Sinking Feeling's new DVD release is launched at GFT Read more »| 01 Apr 2014
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Interviews
Dark Side of the Sun: Biyi Bandele on his Struggle to Adapt a Modern Classic
Nigerian novelist and playwright (and now filmmaker) Biyi Bandele on his hard-fought adaptation of Orange Prize-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
News
Film News: Avengers: Age of Ultron cast on working with Joss Whedon; Christopher Nolan talks Interstellar
A round-up of this week's film news, with comments from the cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Christopher Nolan talks Matthew McConaughey and Interstellar, plus the latest casting rumours and trailers Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Transport from Paradise
Transport from Paradise is set in the Theresienstadt ghetto – a Nazi holding camp for tens of thousands of European Jews, from which the only transport... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
Cineskinny
The Past
After experiencing the near-perfect construction of Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning A Separation and his belatedly released About Elly, one might be inclined ... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
New Releases
Muppets Most Wanted
A musical nod to diminishing returns for sequels opens Muppets Most Wanted, and while this is an overall inferior product compared to its immediate forerunne... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
New Releases
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
As homogeneous as Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe is, the attempts to play up different tones and genres with its recent lot of films have brought w... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
News
Join Russell Crowe at the premiere of Darren Aronofsky's Noah
At a gala premiere at Edinburgh's Filmhouse, Russell Crowe will be in attendance for one of the first UK screenings of Noah, the new epic from Darren Aronofsky. Here's your chance to grab tickets for the event, which takes place on 29 March Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
News
BAFTA New Talent Scotland - winners announced
The winners of this year's BAFTA New Talent Scotland Awards were announced tonight in Glasgow, with the coveted Best New Work award going to Oh! Films for their documentary Finding Family Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Hands Over the City
When a residential building collapses at the start of Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City, it exposes a web of corruption that the director investigates wit... Read more »| 24 Mar 2014