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 ReleasesCalvary
Calvary, McDonagh’s followup to The Guard, opens with a brilliantly startling opening line. I won’t spoil it here, not that it matters though, as... Read more »| 07 Apr 2014 -
NewsFilm News: Dead By Dawn programme revealed, Aronofsky talks The Wolverine, and more
A round-up of Film News, with details of this year's Dead By Dawn horror film festival in Edinburgh; a quality viral video spoofing Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, plus the latest casting rumours and trailers Read more »| 04 Apr 2014 -
New Releases
Noah
The last thing one might expect from a bombastic Hollywood Biblical epic would be religious and theological ambiguity, the bigwigs of Tinseltown being notori... Read more »| 04 Apr 2014 -
Festivals
Edinburgh 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 -
Videos
Richard 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 Events
Northwest 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
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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 -
Interviews
Agro-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 -
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 -
NewsFilm 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 -
CineskinnyThe 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