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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Film EventsStream Queens: Explore the best of queer cinema with MUBI
Explore the history of LGBTQ+ cinema this Pride by digging into queer classics and underrated gems on MUBI Read more »| 28 May 2024 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Duncan Cowles' short films
Ahead of the world premiere of Duncan Cowles' debut feature film Silent Men at Sheffield Doc/Fest, we look back at three of his recent short films Read more »| 27 May 2024 -
New ReleasesGasoline Rainbow
The Ross Brothers take a bunch of teenagers on a Kerouac-style road movie adventure, shooting this fiction film in their unique style that suggests you're watching a fly-on-the-dashboard documentary Read more »| 27 May 2024 -
New ReleasesThe Beast
Léa Seydoux and George MacKay play characters dealing with love and loss across three timelines in Bertrand Bonello’s gorgeously instinctual sci-fi romance The Beast Read more »| 27 May 2024 -
InterviewsDelving into the gross, touching and audacious Hoard
Hoard, which tells a story of hoarding, grief and sexual coming-of-age, is the best British debut since Aftersun. Writer-director Luna Carmoon, along with actors Joseph Quinn and Saura Lightfoot-Leon, tell us more Read more »| 14 May 2024 -
New ReleasesHoard
Hoard is a strange and startling coming-of-age film full of visual invention from the exciting new filmmaker Luna Carmoon Read more »| 13 May 2024
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New ReleasesTiger Stripes
An ambitious, bumpy coming-of-ager, Tiger Stripes draws from Malaysian folklore to bring the horrors of puberty to the fore Read more »| 13 May 2024 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival will open with Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun
The much-anticipated adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun will open EIFF, and the festival also announced that its short film prize will be named in honour of Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker Read more »| 09 May 2024 -
New ReleasesMade In England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
This Scorsese-guided waltz through the great duo’s work is an absolute delight Read more »| 08 May 2024 -
OpinionShallow Grave is 30, and Edinburgh renting is still a nightmare
Shallow Grave is back in cinemas this month for its 30th anniversary. Looking back at this dazzling landmark in Scottish cinema, we have many thoughts, most of them concerned with the nightmare that is renting a flat in Edinburgh Read more »| 07 May 2024 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Niamh McKeown on Dinosaur
Niamh McKeown tells us how she went from making Black Swan knockoffs with her pals to working with the producers of Fleabag on her first TV show Dinosaur Read more »| 02 May 2024 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: May 2024
We look ahead to three film festivals coming your way in May: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, The Edinburgh Folk Film Gathering and the inaugural edition of Falastin Film Festival Read more »| 01 May 2024 -
InterviewsRose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding
Saint Maud director Rose Glass is back with crime thriller/smouldering queer romance Love Lies Bleeding. She talks to us about casting Kristen Stewart as a moody antihero and explains how this tale of violence and bodybuilding was almost set in Scotland Read more »| 01 May 2024 -
Interviews50 Years of Glasgow Film Theatre
With the much-loved Glasgow Film Theatre celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, we speak to some of the programmers, technical staff and front-of-house workers who help run this wonderful cinema Read more »| 29 Apr 2024 -
InterviewsPalestinian artist Noor Abed on folktales, tension and celluloid
Ahead of a retrospective of her work at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Palestinian artist Noor Abed reflects on how growing up in an occupied nation has informed her practice, which intersects performance art, folklore and filmmaking Read more »| 11 Apr 2024