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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InterviewsMaking Connections: Mark Cousins on his two new documentaries
We catch up with the ever-inspiring Mark Cousins – Scotland's most prolific and critically acclaimed documentarian – ahead of the release of two new films shot through with his irrepressible passion for cinema Read more »| 08 Dec 2021 -
New ReleasesLamb
Noomi Rapace shepherds viewers through an atmospheric, chilling fairy tale of love and loss Read more »| 06 Dec 2021 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: December 2021
It's Christmas movies galore in Scottish cinemas this December. As well as the usual suspects like It’s a Wonderful Life and Die Hard you'll find some lesser-spotted festival treats on offer Read more »| 30 Nov 2021 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of 2021
The history books will record 2021 as the year the movies bounced back from the brink, but the pandemic had little impact on the quality of work on our screens. Whether you saw these films in theatres or on your laptop, their artistry shone brightly Read more »| 29 Nov 2021 -
ComedyICYMI: Zoë Tomalin on American Pie
Comedian, writer, producer and Edinburgh International TV Festival 'One to Watch' Zoë Tomalin takes a trip back to 1999 and immerses herself in teen comedy American Pie Read more »| 17 Nov 2021 -
New ReleasesPetite Maman
An eight-year-old girl meets her mother at the same age in this gorgeous and elegiac time-travel fairytale from French filmmaker Céline Sciamma Read more »| 16 Nov 2021
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InterviewsTime Warp: Céline Sciamma on Petite Maman
Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Tomboy director Céline Sciamma returns to the world of childhood in her intimate time-travel film Petite Maman, in which a grieving eight-year-old girl meets her mother at the same age Read more »| 16 Nov 2021 -
Film EventsPlay Poland 2021: Festival preview
Play Poland returns after a four-year hiatus to bring the best of contemporary Polish cinema to Scottish audiences Read more »| 09 Nov 2021 -
InterviewsDénes Nagy on WWII drama Natural Light
Hungarian director Dénes Nagy discusses his bracing new World War Two film Natural Light, which follows a Hungarian soldier tasked with keeping order in occupied Ukraine at the behest of the Axis Powers Read more »| 09 Nov 2021 -
New ReleasesFriends and Strangers
James Vaughan’s comedy of manners Friends and Strangers is wonderfully awkward, strikingly shot and full of hilarious moments of social confusion Read more »| 08 Nov 2021 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: November 2021
Dive into the programmes for this year's French Film Festival, Doc'n Roll festival and Edinburgh Short Film Festival with our November film events round-up Read more »| 29 Oct 2021 -
New ReleasesMemoria
The great Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is back with a collaboration with Tilda Swinton, who plays a woman trying to get to the bottom of a loud sound that only she can hear Read more »| 22 Oct 2021 -
New Releasesear for eye
Lashana Lynch stars in ear for eye, a damning account of racial injustice and the third feature from debbie tucker green Read more »| 22 Oct 2021 -
OpinionThe Great Virtual Comeback: Scottish Film & the Pandemic
We meet some of the Scottish filmmakers and programmers whose working lives have been profoundly reshaped by the pandemic Read more »| 21 Oct 2021 -
New ReleasesLFF 2021: True Things
Harry Wootliff's drama True Things follows the relationship that forms between a young woman who dreams of excitement and an ex-con who seduces her, but unfortunately only one of these characters is fully sketched out Read more »| 14 Oct 2021