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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FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival reveal films in 2022 competitions
GSFF are back in-person and have revealed the films competing for the Bill Douglas Award and the Scottish Short Film Competition. The Skinny favourites James Price, Cat Bruce and Bryan M Ferguson are among those with films in the latter Read more »| 10 Feb 2022 -
FestivalsHippFest 2022 preview: Scotland's silent film fest returns
Mark Kermode's band scores FW Murnau’s City Girl and Withnail & I’s Paul McGann narrates the closing gala, L’Homme du Large – those are just a few potential highlights from this year's HippFest Read more »| 09 Feb 2022 -
InterviewsIndie Go Go: Patrick Wang brings his exquisite indie films to the UK
Rarely has the phrase 'independent spirit' been more applicable than in the case of Patrick Wang. Ahead of his three brilliant features – including the epic two-parter A Bread Factory – touring the UK, we speak to Wang about his singular approach Read more »| 08 Feb 2022 -
New ReleasesFlee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen's documentary Flee uses animation to both help preserve the identity of its subject, an Afghan refugee living in Denmark, and as a way of expressing their loneliness and alienation Read more »| 08 Feb 2022 -
New ReleasesWheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy delivers three wry vignettes concerned with serendipitous connections that see lost souls making some sort of connection Read more »| 08 Feb 2022 -
InterviewsHope Dickson Leach on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Hope Dickson Leach is adapting Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde into an innovative theatrical live screen experience at Leith Theatre, which will also become a new feature film. The Edinburgh-based filmmaker tells us more Read more »| 07 Feb 2022
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NewsListen to The Cineskinny podcast!
The Cineskinny is the film review podcast from The Skinny – this time it's a Glasgow Film Festival special, with a bit of "Wuthering Heights"-bashing thrown in for fun Read more »| 03 Feb 2022 -
New ReleasesBelle
Mamoru Hosoda's Belle is a lot: virtual reality fantasy, teen romance, mystery film, fairytale, celebrity satire, musical. Not all of it sticks, but the animation is so consistently breathtaking you'll forgive its unwieldiness Read more »| 02 Feb 2022 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: February 2022
Glasgow Film Festival bring the brilliant but underseen films of Patrick Wang to the big screen this month. Elsewhere, Valentine's Day brings out the romantic side of some Scottish programmers while Summerhall has the end of the world on its mind Read more »| 01 Feb 2022 -
InterviewsHonor Swinton Byrne on The Souvenir: Part II
Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir: Part II sees Honor Swinton Byrne return as Julie, the young filmmaker trying to find her way in 80s London. But this is a steelier Julie than we saw in Part I. Swinton Byrne tells us about her connection to the character Read more »| 31 Jan 2022 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival reveal 2022 programme
Glasgow Film Festival returns as a hybrid of in-person and at-home screenings, where work from the world's great auteur filmmakers (Claire Denis, Sean Baker, Mia Hansen-Løve) is paired with films with a local flavour Read more »| 27 Jan 2022 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2022: Ten films to watch
Exciting Scottish talent and internationally renowned directors rub shoulders at the latest edition of the Glasgow Film Festival. Stories of gallus imposters, smouldering love triangles and heartbreaking romances are just some of the potential highlights Read more »| 27 Jan 2022 -
InterviewsScotland on Screen: Will Hewitt and Austen McCowan
We sit down with Will Hewitt and Austen McCowan, the duo behind production company Melt the Fly, at their studio in Leith to discuss the formation of their partnership, their recent Scottish BAFTA success and what we can look forward to next Read more »| 20 Jan 2022 -
New ReleasesNightmare Alley
The cast and sets are the main selling point in this thrillingly tawdry film noir from Guillermo del Toro Read more »| 18 Jan 2022 -
FestivalsFokus 2022 celebrates the best of German cinema
The Goethe-Institut's Fokus Film Festival returns to give a snapshot of the German documentary and narrative features released in the last 12 months Read more »| 07 Jan 2022