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 ReleasesMy Old School
Alan Cumming lip-syncs to the voice of notorious Bearsden Academy student Brandon Lee in Jono McLeod's fun and moving documentary My Old School Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesGFF 2022: Angry Young Men
There's plenty of invention in shoe-string budget feature Angry Young Men and sequences that work brilliantly, but there's little to draw you into its central drama Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesHappening
Set in 1960s France, Audrey Diwan's powerful film explores the plight of a promising young university student who becomes unwillingly pregnant and tries to do something about it, despite abortion being illegal Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesGreat Freedom
Franz Rogowski gives a soulful performance as a gay man who lives a recidivistic life in post-WWII Germany thanks to the country's brutal Paragraph 175 regulations Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
FestivalsThe Fall of the House of Usher at HippFest
Ahead of the premiere of a new score to The Fall of the House of Usher at HippFest, we chat to musicians Elizabeth-Jane Baldry and Stephen Horne about the art of breathing life into cinema from the silent era Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesGFF 2022: Fire (Both Sides of the Blade)
Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon and Grégoire Colin's characters become involved in a messy love triangle in the latest film from Claire Denis Read more »| 08 Mar 2022
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New ReleasesGFF 2022: Once Upon a Time in Uganda
Welcome to Wakaliwood! Entertaining documentary Once Upon a Time in Uganda takes us inside the world of filmmaker Isaac Nabwana and the no-budget gonzo action movies he makes from a slum in Kampala Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesVortex
The latest from French provocateur Gaspar Noé uses split-screen to tell the story of an elderly couple (played by Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun) in their twilight years Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
InterviewsSurf's Up: Martyn Robertson on Ride the Wave
Glasgow-based documentarian Martyn Robertson brings his first feature film, Ride the Wave, to Glasgow Film Festival this month. We talked to him about life among the surfers and what it means to bring Scottish stories to a wider audience Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesThe Hermit of Treig
Lizzie Mackenzie's compassionate documentary The Hermit of Treig follows an ageing hermit whose declining health may force him to leave the remote wilderness he called home for four decades Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesBenediction
Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi play Siegfried Sassoon at different ages in Terrence Davies’ elegant, haunting biopic of the war poet Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesBenedetta
Basic Instinct and Elle director Paul Verhoeven dips his toe into the lesbian nun sub-genre with Benedetta, a darkly comic and provocative drama exploring the overlap between religious devotion and eroticism Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesBergman Island
In Mia Hansen-Løve's latest, a filmmaking couple takes a trip to island of Fårö in Sweden, where Ingmar Bergman shot many of his films and where he resided in later life Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesA Banquet
Tensions between a widowed mother and her eldest daughter arise when the latter gives up eating due to potentially unnatural forces in this feature film debut from Ruth Paxton Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
New ReleasesThe Batman
Batman has never been more tortured than in Matt Reeves's gritty and grounded version of the Caped Crusader, but an excellent cast and Se7en-esque detective yarn are buried beneath broody superhero excess Read more »| 04 Mar 2022