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 ReleasesCaptain 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 -
NewsJoin 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 -
NewsBAFTA 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 ReviewsHands 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 -
News
Film News: Behind the scenes of Under the Skin; watch Whatever Gets You Through The Night
A round-up of film news, with a look behind the scenes of Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin; ground-breaking multi-arts show Whatever Gets You Through The Night available to rent; plus the latest movie rumours and trailers Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Outpost III: Rise of the Spetsnaz
By this third film in the Outpost saga, you know what you’re getting into. If zombie Nazis in secret bunkers aren’t your thing, you might want to... Read more »| 24 Mar 2014
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Dvd Reviews
White of the Eye
Brutal violence, Native American mysticism and infidelity collide in Donald Cammell's visually impressive and often dizzying thriller, which gets a long-awai... Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
NewsFilm News: Arnie talks Terminator Genesis, Star Wars VII plot details revealed, and more
A round-up of this week's film news, with Arnold Scwarzenegger looking forward to Terminator: Genesis, details of the Star Wars VII plot unveiled, and rumours of a Game of Thrones movie Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
Interviews
Film Starred Up: Three minutes with Jack O’Connell
We grab a very quick chat with man of the hour Jack O'Connell while he's in Glasgow for the Scottish premiere of Starred Up at the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
New Releases
Blind Woman's Curse
Blind Woman’s Curse opens in the most breathtaking fashion. A Yakuza Clan, tensed and snarling in torrential rain, synchronise to reveal a full dr... Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
News
Creative Scotland appoints new Director of Film & Media
Scotland's arts funding body Creative Scotland have appointed Natalie Usher as their new Director of Film & Media, it was announced today. Usher will take up the post in early May Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Cineskinny
Tom at the Farm
In its setup and execution, Tom at the Farm, the fourth film from Québécois wonderkid Xavier Dolan, is pure Polanski. The title character (play... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Festivals
A Story of Children and Film
As its mimetic title might indicate, A Story of Children and Film plays more like an appendix to Mark Cousins’ encyclopaedic The Story of Film than a f... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Videos
Roger Christian on Black Angel: Video interview at Glasgow Film Festival
Black Angel, a 25 minute short made in Scotland by legendary British art director Roger Christian (Alien, Star Wars), has become a piece of celluloid folklor... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Cineskinny
The Double
Richard Ayoade deftly crafts humanist comedy from dark, Kafkaesque absurdity in his Dostoyevsky adaptation The Double. Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014