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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FestivalsEmily Munro on climate documentary Living Proof
Ahead of Glasgow's UN Climate Conference (aka COP26), Take One Action film festival presents Living Proof – A Climate Story, an evocative documentary exploring Scotland's complex relationship to the global climate crisis, told using archive footage Read more »| 13 Sep 2021 -
New ReleasesSpencer
In Pablo Larraín's anarchic anti-royalist look at Princess Diana, the wealth and status of royalty are a trap from which no-one escapes happily Read more »| 07 Sep 2021 -
New ReleasesVenice Film Festival 2021: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, the latest film from A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night director Ana Lily Amirpour, is a neon-drenched horror filled with warmth and humour, but with a frustratingly loose script Read more »| 05 Sep 2021 -
New ReleasesLast Night in Soho
Edgar Wright's psychological thriller starts promisingly, but as it takes its characters down the sinuous corridors of glamourous Soho clubs, its charming ambivalence and well-crafted allegories begin to unravel Read more »| 04 Sep 2021 -
New ReleasesParallel Mothers
The great Pedro Almodóvar returns with a twist-filled melodrama about two single mothers – one played by Almodóvar regular Penelope Cruz Read more »| 04 Sep 2021 -
New ReleasesThe Lost Daughter
Based on Elena Ferrante's book of the same name, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, depicts the horror of a woman ageing past what society deems desirable Read more »| 03 Sep 2021
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New ReleasesDune
Dune isn't quite the sensory feast of Blade Runner 2049, but Jason Momoa steals the film as a salt of the earth swordmaster – if only this sci-fi epic had more of his pizzaz Read more »| 03 Sep 2021 -
New ReleasesThe Power of the Dog
Jane Campion returns after 12 years with The Power of the Dog, a haunting study of male violence that makes up for its lack of emotional depth with forensic storytelling Read more »| 03 Sep 2021 -
New ReleasesThe Card Counter
Paul Schrader delivers another exacting drama following a haunted man in search of redemption in tense morality tale The Card Counter Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival: Read 2021's Young Critics
Read reviews from this year's group of Edinburgh International Film Festival Young Critics Read more »| 02 Sep 2021 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: September 2021
Some of our favourite film fests – Alchemy, Berwick, Take One Action and Glasgow Youth Film Festival – return in this month's film events guide Read more »| 01 Sep 2021 -
FestivalsTake One Action returns for 2021
Take One Action, the UK’s leading global change film festival, opens with a film about Scotland’s relationship to the global climate crisis and closes with the sequel to 2003 documentary The Corporation Read more »| 31 Aug 2021 -
New ReleasesEIFF 2021: The Man Who Sold His Skin
Rarely has the West's wilful exploitation of the Middle East been so audaciously represented, or so deliciously mocked, as in Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s new film Read more »| 27 Aug 2021 -
FestivalsEIFF 2021: Ballad of a White Cow
Maryam Moghaddam stars in and co-directs this existentially rich drama concerned with Iran’s capital penal system and centred on a woman whose husband is wrongly executed Read more »| 24 Aug 2021 -
FestivalsEIFF 2021: Europa
An Iraqi refugee finds himself the target of armed migrant hunters in this powerful survival thriller Read more »| 24 Aug 2021