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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InterviewsKogonada and Justin H. Min on After Yang
We caught up with director Kogonada and actor Justin H. Min while they were in Edinburgh to help close out the Edinburgh International Film Festival. We talk memory, emotional attachment to technology and bowl haircuts Read more »| 20 Sep 2022 -
New ReleasesSaint Omer
Alice Diop's debut fiction feature Saint Omer is a haunting courtroom drama based on the real-life story of a young Senegalese Frenchwoman accused of murdering her infant Read more »| 12 Sep 2022 -
OpinionGlasgow Youth Film Festival – Young Programmers' Picks
Glasgow Youth Film Festival, the innovative event programmed by Glasgow teens aged 15 to 19, returns with another programme blending new and older films that speak to younger audiences. Some of this year’s programmers talk us through their highlights Read more »| 12 Sep 2022 -
InterviewsOwen Kline on Funny Pages
Wanna feel old? Owen Kline, who played the onanistic younger brother in The Squid and the Whale, is making movies now. His debut feature, Funny Pages, is a bleakly hilarious dive into the world of underground comic books. Kline tells us more Read more »| 12 Sep 2022 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2022: The Score
The Score is a musical but only by definition. From Johnny Flynn's suitably humble soundtrack to the humdrum roadside cafe setting, it swaps Hollywood glamour for a subdued sweetness Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
New ReleasesVenice Film Festival 2022: Athena
Romain Gavras’ bravura third feature, Athena, is an incendiary exploration of police brutality in the Paris banlieues Read more »| 05 Sep 2022
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New ReleasesBones and All
Luca Guadagnino reteams with his Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet for a coming-of-age love story about two cannibalistic teens. Despite its YA tropes, it's a film rich in bruised longing and queer desires Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2022: A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love
A purse-snatching leads to a spring-autumn romance in this curious German film exploring a middle-aged woman's sexual desire for a much younger man Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
InterviewsTake One Action returns for its 15th edition
Take One Action, Scotland's festival for social change, is back for its 15th edition. The festival is more compact this year but it's as radical and hopeful for our future as ever. We caught up with festival programmer Xuanlin Tham to find out more Read more »| 02 Sep 2022 -
New ReleasesWhite Noise
Noah Baumbach takes on Don DeLillo’s darkly comic existential novel White Noise, but the film isn't an exercise in laughing at humanity. Baumbach and his cast, who include Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver, are laughing with it Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
FestivalsEIFF 2022: Kung Fu Zohra
Kung Fu Zohra sheds some much-needed light on womxn’s self-defence but too often the film uses comedy to diverge from the actualities of abusive relationships Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2022: Three Times Nothing
Three homeless men win big on the lottery in this French comedy taking on the country's administration systems. The film's message gets lost, though, as the story descends into sentimentality Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2022: My Small Land
Coming-of-age drama My Small Land explores the struggles of a Kurdish girl attending high school in Japan Read more »| 31 Aug 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: September 2022
Scottish cinemas have quite a lineup this month: saucy 30s Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe being an icon in the 60s, Kinuyo Tanaka addressing love and sex head-on in 60s Japan, David Cronenberg creeping us out in the 80s, and werewolves attacking in 1981 Read more »| 30 Aug 2022 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2022: Black Mambas
Lena Karbe’s documentary explores issues of race, gender and class in South Africa’s all-female anti-poaching unit Read more »| 29 Aug 2022