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 ReleasesEIFF 2022: Three Times Nothing
Three homeless men win big on the lottery in this French comedy taking on the country's administration systems. The film's message gets lost, though, as the story descends into sentimentality Read more »| 01 Sep 2022 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2022: My Small Land
Coming-of-age drama My Small Land explores the struggles of a Kurdish girl attending high school in Japan Read more »| 31 Aug 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: September 2022
Scottish cinemas have quite a lineup this month: saucy 30s Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe being an icon in the 60s, Kinuyo Tanaka addressing love and sex head-on in 60s Japan, David Cronenberg creeping us out in the 80s, and werewolves attacking in 1981 Read more »| 30 Aug 2022 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2022: Black Mambas
Lena Karbe’s documentary explores issues of race, gender and class in South Africa’s all-female anti-poaching unit Read more »| 29 Aug 2022 -
New ReleasesMr Malcolm's List
This riff on the regency romance can't quite replicate Jane Austen's rich characterisation, but nevertheless its fantastic cast makes Mr Malcolm's List undeniably satisfying Read more »| 22 Aug 2022 -
New ReleasesGlasgow Youth Film Festival returns for 2022
GYFF, the innovative festival curated by young people from Glasgow, returns with a mix of old films and mint fresh ones, such as the new comedic murder mystery See How They Run, which opens the festival Read more »| 18 Aug 2022
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New ReleasesFlux Gourmet
Peter Strickland returns with Flux Gourmet, which follows the clashes of ethos and egos between a band that make sonic soundscapes using food. The results are messy Read more »| 16 Aug 2022 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2022: It Is in Us All
It Is in Us All offers a dark atmosphere that's well constructed, but its inconsistent narrative keeps the film from being an engaging experience Read more »| 15 Aug 2022 -
New ReleasesAnaïs in Love
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's debut feature takes us inside a love triangle between a restless 20-something and an older couple Read more »| 15 Aug 2022 -
New ReleasesOfficial Competition
An out-of-touch investor hires an eccentric director and two mismatched actors to adapt a book he hasn't read. Hilarity ensues Read more »| 13 Aug 2022 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Alan Cumming and Jono McLeod on My Old School
Jono McLeod's My Old School takes us back to the 90s for the stranger-than-fiction story of how Bearsden Academy student Brandon Lee became the most notorious schoolboy in Britain. Alan Cumming lip-syncs to Lee's testimony Read more »| 12 Aug 2022 -
FestivalsAntonia Campbell-Hughes on It Is in Us All
We delve into the dark psychological thriller It Is in Us All with Irish filmmaker Antonia Campbell-Hughes, who directed, wrote, and acted in the film Read more »| 10 Aug 2022 -
InterviewsCooking With Gas: Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet
Avant-garde sonic caterers? Nipple-twisting kinks? The melancholy of flatulence? You'll find all and more in Flux Gourmet from Peter Strickland, one of the most visionary voices in British cinema Read more »| 09 Aug 2022 -
InterviewsEIFF 2022: Amanda Kramer interview
Amanda Kramer brings not one but two jaw-dropping films to EIFF this year, Please Baby Please and Give Me Pity! She talks to us about embracing theatricality, bringing an art school cool back to cinema and the iconic awesomeness of Terminator 2 Read more »| 09 Aug 2022 -
OpinionEdinburgh Film Festival 2022: 15 Must-See Films
Of course, we recommend you make it opener Aftersun and closer After Yang, although tickets are currently like gold dust. Here are 15 other must-see titles from EIFF's programme Read more »| 09 Aug 2022