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 ReleasesMoon, 66 Questions
Like Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jacqueline Lentzou is a contemporary Greek filmmaker with a distinct sensibility. Her debut feature – Moon 66, Questions – confirms Lentzou's position as a visionary director worth getting excited about Read more »| 20 Jun 2022 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Mark Lyken on Notes From a Low Orbit
During a six-month residency with Alchemy Film & Arts, Mark Lyken developed Notes from a Low Orbit, a feature-length study of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, where Alchemy is based. Lyken reflects on making the film and its rapturous hometown premiere Read more »| 16 Jun 2022 -
New ReleasesEverything Went Fine
Everything Went Fine sees the French director back in his more severe, social issues mode as he tells the story of a daughter who is wrestling with her father’s request that she euthanise him Read more »| 14 Jun 2022 -
OpinionI’d Rather Be a Pig Than a Fascist: 30 Years of Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso, Hayao Miyazaki's enchanting adventure film about a first world war fighter pilot who helps battle fascists in Italy, even though he's transformed into a pig-man, turns 30. We look back at this anti-war masterpiece Read more »| 09 Jun 2022 -
New ReleasesIl Buco
Michelangelo Frammartino literally and figuratively plumbs the depths with new feature Il Buco, which is peppered with the same kind of gentle humour and moments of incidental magic we saw in his 2010 masterpiece Le Quattro Volte Read more »| 07 Jun 2022 -
New ReleasesSwan Song
German character actor Udo Kier takes a rare leading role in this wistful story of an ageing, small-town Ohio hairdresser looking to mend some bridges Read more »| 07 Jun 2022
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OpinionGen Z's gateway cultural education in Stranger Things
Gen Zs are discovering the delights of Kate Bush through coming-of-age sci-fi hit Stranger Things, and cultural gatekeepers are outraged. But they shouldn't get in such a tizzy. Classic art has always been recontextualised by contemporary pop culture Read more »| 06 Jun 2022 -
OpinionThe Beautiful Game on the Silver Screen
I Am Zlatan is released 3 Jun by Signature Films Read more »| 06 Jun 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: June 2022
June sees the return of The Folk Film Gathering, Sundance films tour Scotland and GFT begins their Scorsese of the month season Read more »| 01 Jun 2022 -
New ReleasesCannes 2022: Showing Up
American director Kelly Reichardt reunites with her favourite actor, Michelle Williams, for a tender portrait of an artist and their surrounding community Read more »| 31 May 2022 -
New ReleasesCannes 2022: Stars at Noon
Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn make for uninspired romantic leads in this deeply disappointing and stagnant thriller from Claire Denis Read more »| 26 May 2022 -
New ReleasesCrimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future is a David Cronenberg body horror that just doesn’t feel disgusting enough Read more »| 25 May 2022 -
New ReleasesCannes 2022: Armageddon Time
James Gray returns to his New York City roots with Armageddon Time, a coming of age film set in 1980s Queens Read more »| 24 May 2022 -
New ReleasesAftersun
Premiering in Cannes' Critics' Week, we take a look at the first feature from Scottish director Charlotte Wells, which centres on Normal People's Paul Mescal as a young father with an uneasy relationship with his pre-teen daughter Read more »| 21 May 2022 -
New ReleasesThe Innocents
Eskil Vogt's slow-burn, matter-of-fact chiller follows several youngsters with telekinetic powers and explores the curiosity and casual cruelty of children – but don't expect Scanners Junior Read more »| 12 May 2022