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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NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival 2025: The Award Winners
Lisa Clarkson’s Paternal Advice won this year’s Scottish Competition while Iranian filmmaker Maryam Tafakory won the Bill Douglas Award for best international short film Read more »| 25 Mar 2025 -
New ReleasesLa Cocina
Talented Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios is back with an intense drama concerned with the dream of immigration and the exploitative nature of capitalism, set within the pressure-cooker environment of a New York restaurant Read more »| 24 Mar 2025 -
InterviewsJulian Glander on Boys Go to Jupiter
Julian Glander's debut feature, vaporwave animation Boys Go to Jupiter, is a delightful hangout movie with a sci-fi twist. We spoke to Glander about the film ahead of its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival earlier this month Read more »| 20 Mar 2025 -
InterviewsAlonso Ruizpalacios on La Cocina
Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios is one of the most daring filmmakers in world cinema, but he's yet to have a mainstream breakthrough. His fourth feature, La Cocina, a drama set in a high-pressure restaurant kitchen, should change that Read more »| 18 Mar 2025 -
New ReleasesBrief History of a Family
There are distinct shades of Saltburn in Jianjie Lin’s sleek psychological drama following a teenager as he worms his way into the affections of his friend’s wealthy parents Read more »| 17 Mar 2025 -
New ReleasesFlow
Gints Zilbalodis’ sophomore feature follows a cat and its newfound animal family on an unforgettable odyssey through a sinking dystopia Read more »| 17 Mar 2025
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New ReleasesGFF 2025: Super Happy Forever
Kohei Igarashi's Super Happy Forever is a profoundly romantic non-linear love story Read more »| 13 Mar 2025 -
New ReleasesSister Midnight
Sister Midnight is a picaresque horror comedy about a newlywed who marches to the beat of her own drum Read more »| 10 Mar 2025 -
New ReleasesGFF 2025: Baby Assassins: Nice Days
Coming across like an anime leaping to live-action, Yugo Sakamoto's latest entry in his Baby Assassins series is an infectious and silly delight Read more »| 07 Mar 2025 -
New ReleasesGFF 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 -
InterviewsThe 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 -
InterviewsNeil 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 ReleasesThe 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 -
InterviewsImperfect 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 -
BooksXuanlin 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