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 ReleasesAsteroid City
Wes Anderson explores themes of grief and riffs on Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Asteroid City, which is among the richest films of his career Read more »| 24 May 2023 -
New ReleasesFull Time
Full Time is a realist drama that puts us in the shoes of a single mother who's facing various work, childcare and financial pressures, shot with the propulsion of a Paul Greengrass or Safdie brothers thriller Read more »| 19 May 2023 -
OpinionAlchemy Film & Moving Image Festival: 2023 Report
We look back at the highlights from the thirteenth edition of Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, where community filmmaking shone brightly. Other highlights include a celebration of the UK's most prolific actor and a haunting portrait of teens run amok Read more »| 16 May 2023 -
OpinionPop(corn) Art: 20 Artful 21st Century Blockbusters
Popular films don't need to be brainless or unambitious. To mark our pop issue, here are 20 artful blockbusters from the 21st century that pushed the envelope, delivering inventive filmmaking and thought-provoking ideas alongside their popcorn thrills Read more »| 11 May 2023 -
OpinionJames Price on the films that influenced Dog Days
Talented Glasgow filmmaker James Price is back with Dog Days, his soulful micro-drama about a young guy from Glasgow living rough on the streets of Dundee looking for a sliver of redemption. Price tells us about some of the films that influenced the show Read more »| 10 May 2023 -
New ReleasesPlan 75
Chie Hayakawa's Plan 75 imagines an alternate vision of Japan where the elderly are encouraged to be euthanised for the good of the nation; it's a a piece of thought-provoking speculative fiction worthy of comparisons to Children of Men Read more »| 09 May 2023
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New ReleasesThe Eight Mountains
A devastating portrait of brotherhood spanning decades, The Eight Mountains adapts Paolo Cognetti’s novel through lyrical voiceovers and comforting silences across a breathtaking alpine setting Read more »| 09 May 2023 -
InterviewsDavy Chou on Return to Seoul
In Return to Seoul, Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou tells the story of a Korean adoptee travelling to her homeland. Chou explains how the idea initially sprang from a friend's similar journey but eventually realised how personal the film was Read more »| 02 May 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: May 2023
This month GFT and Cameo go big on Wes Anderson ahead of the release of Asteroid City, transgender stories are explored in a travelling programme from SQIFF and things get spooky in Dundee with the return of DCA's horror festival Dundead Read more »| 02 May 2023 -
New ReleasesThe Blue Caftan
The Blue Caftan is a conventional yet powerful depiction of homophobia in Morocco Read more »| 02 May 2023 -
InterviewsTick Tick Boom: Meet the team behind How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Blow Up a Pipeline might be the most important film of the year. It's certainly the most thrilling. We speak to the director and editor behind this nailbiting eco-thriller that's also a stunning political statement Read more »| 28 Apr 2023 -
New ReleasesReturn to Seoul
Return to Seoul is a piercing, powerful character drama driven by a fearless debut performance by Park Ji-min Read more »| 27 Apr 2023 -
InterviewsNida Manzoor on her debut film Polite Society
We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor delivers a knockout with her debut feature film Polite Society, a riotously funny story of sisterly love featuring a heady blend of teen-girl hijinks, heist caper shenanigans and wuxia-style showdowns Read more »| 26 Apr 2023 -
New ReleasesPolite Society
The debut film from Nida Manzoor, Polite Society is an appealing blend of action romp and teen comedy centred on a martial arts-obsessed teen Read more »| 24 Apr 2023 -
New ReleasesRodeo
Lola Quivoron borrows from the banlieue to create a high-octane but uneven first feature, which centres on a female dirt rider in an all-male gang Read more »| 24 Apr 2023