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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NewsGlasgow Film Festival reveals its lineup for 2023
Glasgow’s annual celebration of cinema will be back for its 19th edition with 123 features including the new film from We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor and debuts features from exciting Glasgow talents like Adura Onashile and James Price Read more »| 25 Jan 2023 -
New ReleasesAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras turns her focus on transgressive photographer Nan Goldin, delving into her life, art and the roots of her activism Read more »| 24 Jan 2023 -
InterviewsAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Interview with Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras's extraordinary documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed explores the multifaceted life of artist Nan Goldin. She tells us how she wanted to make a film that wasn't a biopic and that would implicate her audience Read more »| 19 Jan 2023 -
New ReleasesHoly Spider
Borders director Ali Abbasi's new thriller explores the spate of faith-driven murders of sex workers that took place in Iran in the early 00s. Its depiction of the violence is chilling, but it also relies on the sensationalism of the violence it critiques Read more »| 17 Jan 2023 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Leyla Coll-O’Reilly on Groom
We speak to poet and theatre-maker Leyla Coll-O’Reilly (aka Leyla Josephine) about Groom, her stunning new short about a taciturn teenage girl entering the intimidating world of a hypersexualised beauty salon Read more »| 12 Jan 2023 -
New ReleasesEnys Men
Undeniably eerie and packed with symbolism, the ghosts of Enys Men's cut-off setting will keep the audience keenly watching, in a film with few material exchanges between unnamed characters Read more »| 10 Jan 2023
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InterviewsMark Jenkin on Cornish folk horror Enys Men
Mark Jenkin follows Bait with island tale Enys Men. We speak to him about folk horror, shooting on 16mm, and making work embedded in Cornish culture Read more »| 09 Jan 2023 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: January 2023
Start 2023 with a trip into the nightmarish worlds of David Lynch, an eye-popping 80s double-bill and a rarely-screened Studio Ghibli gem Read more »| 05 Jan 2023 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival announce opening film for 2023
The UK premiere of Girl, the debut feature from rising Glasgow talent Adura Onashile, will open the 2023 Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 05 Jan 2023 -
New ReleasesTár
Cate Blanchett gives one of the performances of her career as a world-renowned conductor, a musical genius, and a monster you can't take your eyes off Read more »| 04 Jan 2023 -
New ReleasesCorsage
Vicky Krieps is endlessly watchable as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, pushing back against the constraints of royal life, in Marie Kreutzer's innovative Corsage Read more »| 19 Dec 2022 -
InterviewsMarie Kreutzer on royalty, celebrity, and Corsage
In Corsage, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer brings a radical new interpretation of the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria to the screen Read more »| 16 Dec 2022 -
Opinion20 Underrated Films from 2022
Critical praise is great, but what about the weirdo films ignored by audiences, or the unfairly dismissed blockbusters? Here are twenty of the year's best Read more »| 13 Dec 2022 -
OpinionScotland on Screen: A Year in Scottish Film
A look back at the five best Scottish features from 2022, plus our favourite Scottish shorts Read more »| 13 Dec 2022 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of 2022: Our Writers' Top 10s
Our film writers' personal top tens of the year, plus honourable mentions, TV shows of the year and a few stinkers thrown in for good measure Read more »| 06 Dec 2022