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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CineskinnyMinority Report: Women & Film @ GFF 2013
We preview the array of events debating and celebrating female filmmakers at this year's Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 07 Feb 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Skyfall
Skyfall's success at the box office has cemented Daniel Craig's reputation as the best Bond since Connery. Bringing to the role the blunt charm of a hammerhe... Read more »| 07 Feb 2013 -
New ReleasesI Give It a Year
I Give It a Year writer/director Dan Mazer has described his raunchy feature debut as an ‘anti-rom-com'; a subversion of those well-worn boy-... Read more »| 06 Feb 2013 -
New Releases
Hitchcock
The filming of Psycho is the focus of Sacha Gervasi’s muddled but endearing biopic of/homage to The Master of Suspense. Flitting uneasily between comed... Read more »| 05 Feb 2013 -
Cineskinny
CineSkinny Reloaded
Like Arnie, or a particularly aggressive fungal infection, The CineSkinny is back to enliven your experience and embolden your cinematic choices at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 04 Feb 2013 -
CineskinnyNo Penis Required: Films from Female Directors @ GFF 2013
We preview the films from female directors at this year's Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 04 Feb 2013
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New ReleasesWreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph’s primary source of pleasure is nostalgia: it’s a CGI time-machine for those who misspent their youth developing RSIs on bleeping ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2013 -
Festivals
Space is the Place: Techno pioneer Jeff Mills introduces his live score to Fritz Lang's Woman In The Moon
As Jeff Mills' new 'cine-mix' for Fritz Lang's Woman In The Moon premieres at Glasgow Film Festival, we caught up with the world's most inventive DJ to talk about space travel, the origins of his unique sound, and his new audiovisual label, Alpha Centauri Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
Opinion
Hero Worship: Lynda Myles
Matt Lloyd, director of Glasgow Short Film Festival, tells us why he's in awe of Lynda Myles, the artistic director of Edinburgh International Film Festival during its 70s purple patch Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Sinister
In an attempt to restore his ailing career, a true crime writer moves his family into a house to write the definitive account of the murders that happened th... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Chained
Cinematically speaking, Jennifer Lynch comes with a lot of baggage.The daughter of David Lynch, at 19 she wrote and directed one of the most reviled films of... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
Film Events
Film Event Highlights - February 2013
The Glasgow Film festival doesn't have the only film events worth checking out in February - here's The Skinny's guide to special screenings, events and happenings in the rest of the country Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2013: What's Up Docs?
The old adage "truth is stranger than fiction" is the driving force behind Glasgow Film Festival's long-running documentary strand – and looking at GFF 2013's doc lineup, it's one that it is determined to prove true Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
New Releases
Hyde Park on Hudson
You’ve got to feel for Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney), the lead character and narrator of Hyde Park on Hudson. Not only is her kissing cousin, President ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
Cineskinny
The Eclectic: Caroline Sascha Cogez on her GSFF retrospective
Caroline Sascha Cogez brings her eclectic short films to a retrospective at Glasgow Short Film Festival. The Skinny spoke to this graduate of Super 16, Denmark's punky film school, about her colourful career ahead of her trip to Scotland Read more »| 30 Jan 2013