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 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 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of 2022
A Scottish film tops The Skinny's films of the year for the first time, but Charlotte Wells' wonderful Aftersun required no home team advantage Read more »| 05 Dec 2022
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InterviewsSight and Sound crowns Jeanne Dielman The Greatest Film of All Time
Jeanne Dielman becomes the first film directed by a woman to tops Sight and Sound magazine’s influential once-a-decade international film critics’ poll. We speak to Sight and Sound's editor-in-chief, Mike Williams, about the results Read more »| 02 Dec 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: December 2022
It's Christmas time, there's no need to be afraid, apart from at Cameo's Holiday Horror-a-thon. Plus basically all of your Christmas favourites get a showing in Scottish cinemas this December, from It's a Wonderful Life to Eyes Wide Shut Read more »| 30 Nov 2022 -
New ReleasesLynch/Oz
Alexandre O. Philippe is back with another documentary that gets obsessive over a piece of filmmaking. In this case, he's exploring the connective tissue between David Lynch and The Wizard of Oz Read more »| 29 Nov 2022 -
InterviewsAlexandre O. Philippe on new documentary Lynch/Oz
Alexandre O. Philippe takes a new deep dive into a corner of film culture, exploring the links between David Lynch's nightmarish worlds and The Wizard of Oz Read more »| 28 Nov 2022 -
New ReleasesGoodbye, Don Glees!
Three childhood friends go on a summer adventure in Atsuko Ishizuka’s sweet coming-of-age tale reminiscent of Stand By Me and the films of Makoto Shinkai Read more »| 28 Nov 2022 -
New ReleasesWhat Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Two lovers are cursed by an evil eye in this witty and inventive modern fairytale set in the sun-dappled Georgian city of Kutaisi Read more »| 21 Nov 2022 -
OpinionRip It Up: Building a better screen sector
Glasgow Short Film Festival's Sanne Jehoul argues that we need to build a radical new model for film – fair, diverse, full of passion, and free from neoliberal thinking Read more »| 14 Nov 2022 -
InterviewsMemory Box: Charlotte Wells on Aftersun
Is Aftersun 2022's finest film? Very possibly. We speak to its Scottish director Charlotte Wells about visual storytelling, and the difficulty of understanding your parents Read more »| 14 Nov 2022 -
New ReleasesNo Bears
With No Bears, the great Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a typically witty and inventive film full of empathy, but a note of disillusionment is creeping in Read more »| 08 Nov 2022