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 ReleasesPerfect Days
Wim Wenders serves a bittersweet slice-of-life with a commanding central performance from Kōji Yakusho as a hard-working Tokyo toilet cleaner Read more »| 16 Feb 2024 -
NewsViggo Mortensen, George Mackay set for Glasgow Film Festival
Rose Glass, Maxine Peake, George Mackay and Viggo Mortensen are among the stars set to appear at the 20th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 15 Feb 2024 -
NewsEdinburgh Film Festival announce £50,000 Sean Connery Prize
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced two huge prizes for this year’s edition: one for best short film and one for best feature Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
New ReleasesThe Taste of Things
The Taste of Things is lovingly prepared but a little staid; it's beautiful to look at, but removed from a deeper emotionality Read more »| 07 Feb 2024 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival 2024: Industry Focus and After Dark events
Scottish filmmaker Kevin Macdonald headlines Glasgow Film Festival’s increased Industry Focus this year, and new strand After Hours introduces a GFF karaoke night, ceilidh and 2005 disco Read more »| 06 Feb 2024 -
NewsHippFest 2024 programme revealed
The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival is back with another knockout lineup of silent cinema, featuring early cinematic visions of Scotland, some of the biggest stars of the silent era and loads of rarities, all performed with live music Read more »| 06 Feb 2024
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Film EventsScottish Film Events: February 2024
It's rubbish outside, so head to your local cinema in February for Buster Keaton, romantic movies, films from Japan, and a load of cool animation Read more »| 30 Jan 2024 -
New ReleasesOut of Darkness
Paleolithic survivalist horror Out of Darkness sees a band of early humans up against the wildness of the Scottish landscape – and a mysterious threat picking them off one by one Read more »| 29 Jan 2024 -
New ReleasesThe Iron Claw
Sean Durkin's latest is part gut-wrenching tragedy, part celebration of the sibling bond. Think Little Women but with strapping wrestlers Read more »| 29 Jan 2024 -
OpinionThe Unheroic Journey: Awards Season's Best Biopics
Narrative fiction has long travelled outwith the rigid story structures set out by Aristotle and Joseph Campbell, but biographical cinema has been slow to catch up. Might this year's crop of biopics be turning the tide? Read more »| 25 Jan 2024 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
This year’s GFF opens with much-anticipated new thriller Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart, and closes with the world premiere of a new documentary on Glasgow comedian Janey Godley Read more »| 24 Jan 2024 -
InterviewsAndrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers
All of Us Strangers sees a lonely man embark on a new relationship while inexplicably reconnecting with his long-dead parents. Its director, Andrew Haigh, discusses queer alienation, understanding our parents and the soulfulness of Paul Mescal's eyes Read more »| 23 Jan 2024 -
New ReleasesAll of Us Strangers
Ireland’s most sensitive heartthrobs sizzle in Andrew Haigh’s sad (yet sexy) fantasy tale Read more »| 22 Jan 2024 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Jack Archer on Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Jack Archer’s documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend explores the friendship between Scotland’s greatest filmmaker and his lifelong companion Peter Jewell through interviews and Douglas's unseen 8mm home films. Archer tells us more Read more »| 16 Jan 2024 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival and GSFF team up to celebrate Bill Douglas
One of Scotland’s greatest filmmakers, Bill Douglas, will receive much love at the upcoming Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival, as GFF hosts new documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend while GSFF opens with some of Douglas's 8mm shorts Read more »| 16 Jan 2024