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 ReleasesCounty Lines
Henry Blake's debut feature combines raw realism and a knack for visual storytelling to lift the lid on child exploitation in the drug trade Read more »| 16 Nov 2020 -
InterviewsCameron Mackay on filmmaking as activism
We meet Glasgow environmental activist, filmmaker and composer Cameron Mackay, who's about to embark on a series of films for Glasgow Science Centre's Our World, Our Impact programme, which marks a one-year countdown to COP26 in Glasgow next November Read more »| 16 Nov 2020 -
FestivalsWorld Building: Exploring SQIFF 2020
SQIFF headed to cyberspace in this age of pandemic; one writer reports back on how the festival reflected our increasingly dystopian world back at us Read more »| 09 Nov 2020 -
InterviewsThe Scottish Film Festivals Offering a Window on the World
Against the odds, three of our favourite festivals return this autumn. After months of lockdown, the fresh new perspectives of Africa in Motion, French Film Festival UK and Scotland Loves Anime should be cherished – and offer more than simple escapism Read more »| 05 Nov 2020 -
New ReleasesThe Boys in the Band
Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer and Zachary Quinto are among the stars in this new production of the classic play set at a Manhattan birthday celebration Read more »| 02 Nov 2020 -
New ReleasesPatrick
Peaky Blinders director Tim Mielants makes his feature debut with Patrick, a Coen-esque caper centred on a nudist camp's handyman and his missing tool Read more »| 30 Oct 2020
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New ReleasesAbout Endlessness
Swedish absurdist Roy Andersson returns with another series of bittersweet sketches that both amuse and move in equal measure Read more »| 30 Oct 2020 -
InterviewsDigging Up the Past: Bassam Tariq on Mogul Mowgli
Bassam Tariq's electric narrative feature debut stars Riz Ahmed as a British-Pakistani rapper on the cusp of stardom when struck down by a debilitating illness. Tariq explains how he wanted to tell a story that dug deep into Pakistan's cultural heritage Read more »| 30 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesRelic
Australian-Japanese director Natalie Erika James’ brilliant debut centres its horror on three generations of women as the developing dementia of the family's grandmother exposes unspoken resentments between the trio Read more »| 28 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesShirley
Josephine Decker channels the gothic atmosphere and horribly thrilling storytelling of Shirley Jackson's writing in this fictionalised portrait of the author Read more »| 26 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesBorat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Sacha Baron Cohen returns with another askance look at America from the point of view of the idiotic Kazakhstani reporter Borat. The resulting satire is often sharp and explosive, but there are some misfires too Read more »| 26 Oct 2020 -
InterviewsMind Games: Josephine Decker on Shirley
Shirley imagines a fictitious period in the life of Shirley Jackson, shot in a way that channels the cult author's writing style. Director Josephine Decker talks to us about the purging pleasures of exploring dark characters and themes Read more »| 22 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesSummer of 85
François Ozon's latest, a melodrama following a gay teen romance that blossoms during an idyllic summer on the French coast, has plenty of surface pleasures, but at times it feels about as substantial as an 80s pop promo Read more »| 19 Oct 2020 -
New ReleasesBody of Water
Scottish director Lucy Brydon makes her feature film debut with this bleak, ambiguous film following a middle-aged woman with an eating disorder Read more »| 12 Oct 2020 -
OpinionStudio Ghibli, Cottagecore & Inclusivity
The cottagecore aesthetic helps young people and marginalised groups to imagine a different future – and the movies of Studio Ghibli are key in pointing the way forward Read more »| 08 Oct 2020