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 Releases
GFF 2025: Went Up the Hill
This ghost story suffers from heavy-handed symbolism and a script full of exposition, but the quality of the lead actors – Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps – make up for some of these issues Read more »| 06 Mar 2025 -
Interviews
The Skinny On... Shaun Williamson
Star of Extras, Life's Too Short and the iconic role of Barry from Eastenders, Shaun Williamson has been taking the clubs of the music festivals circuit by storm with his BARRIOKE karaoke night. He brings his gripes with the tax man to the Q&A Read more »| 06 Mar 2025 -
Interviews
Neil Brand on HippFest and silent film composition
Composer Neil Brand is a regular fixture at silent film festival HippFest, where he's performed dozens of live scores over the years. At the 15th HippFest he'll be given a new challenge: improvise the score for a film he's never seen before Read more »| 06 Mar 2025 -
New Releases
The End
Joshua Oppenheimer, the great director of documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, returns with a curious post-apocalyptic musical. It is not a toe-tapper Read more »| 04 Mar 2025 -
Interviews
Imperfect Harmony: Jim Hosking on Ebony & Ivory
With his knack for combining the bizarre with the poignant, Jim Hosking has proven himself a one-off in British cinema. We chat to him about his latest cult film in the making, Ebony & Ivory, ahead of its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 03 Mar 2025 -
Books
Xuanlin Tham on new book Revolutionary Desires
We chat with Edinburgh-based author and film curator Xuanlin Tham about their debut book, an incisive and intricate exploration of the politics of the sex scene Read more »| 03 Mar 2025
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New Releases
GFF 2025: Kill the Jockey
Argentinian director Luis Ortega returns with the surreal and beautiful Kill the Jockey Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
Interviews
Gints Zilbalodis on Oscar-winning animation Flow
The major underdog at this year's Oscars was Flow, a low-budget, dialogue-free animation from Latvia about a band of animals surviving the end of the world. We speak to director Gints Zilbalodis about his beguiling film Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Events: March 2025
This March, expect many film festivals, unmissable retrospectives on two hugely influential filmmakers and a whole load of Q&A screenings for new work Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
Interviews
James McArdle on Hamlet, baddies & new film Four Mothers
James McArdle is a familiar face from stage and television, but he's yet to lead a movie. That all changes with Four Mothers, in which he plays an Irish novelist caring for his elderly mother Read more »| 27 Feb 2025 -
New Releases
The Last Showgirl
Jamie Lee Curtis grooving to Total Eclipse of the Heart is one of the few highlights in this disappointing study of a Las Vegas showgirl approaching the end of her career Read more »| 24 Feb 2025 -
New Releases
The Monkey
Theo James plays twin brothers in the possession of a cursed toy monkey in this gory horror comedy that's rarely scary nor funny Read more »| 21 Feb 2025 -
News
Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2025 programme
Glasgow Short Film Festival is back with a programme of international work including films from the Gaza Film Unit and a spotlight on Indonesian filmmaker Riar Rizaldi, as well as short film programmes exploring sex, grief and the multiverse Read more »| 19 Feb 2025 -
Opinion
Head Canon: Being John Malkovich in the social media age
Twenty-five years after its UK release, Being John Malkovich offers a prescient look at celebrity, parasocial relationships, and the horror of being inside your own head Read more »| 18 Feb 2025 -
Interviews
Vera Drew on becoming The People’s Joker
Following the flop of Folie à Deux, you might think the world domination of comic book movies is coming to an end – but Vera Drew, director of supervillain satire The People's Joker, has united hundreds of artists in the crossover event of the century Read more »| 17 Feb 2025