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 ReleasesHot Milk
Fiona Shaw is excellent, but there's little else to recommend in this limp adaptation of Deborah Levy's 2016 novel Read more »| 01 Jul 2025 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: July 2025
This month, check out the newly renovated Filmhouse, celebrate Pride at GFT, enjoy some alfresco cinema at Queen's Park and catch lots of films on 35mm Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
New ReleasesThe Shrouds
David Cronenberg explores the burials of the future in a personal, nightmarish meditation on tech and flesh in new film The Shrouds Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
FestivalsRemake of The Toxic Avenger comes to EIFF
Edinburgh International Film Festival will host the UK premiere of The Toxic Avenger, a remake of the gross 1984 classic from the legendary exploitation film studio Troma Read more »| 13 Jun 2025 -
NewsFilmhouse announces opening programme
Filmhouse reopens with a programme of films released during their closure and some special screenings, with tickets at half price or less Read more »| 12 Jun 2025 -
InterviewsWay of the Sword: John Maclean on Tornado
It's been ten years since John Maclean burst onto the movie scene with his stylish western Slow West. His second feature, Tornado, is another western riff, this time set in Scotland and centred on a young Japanese woman who's handy with a samurai sword Read more »| 10 Jun 2025
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New ReleasesTornado
The second film from John Maclean has an austere beauty and a unique premise – it's a samurai movie set in 1890s Scotland – but its lean script needs more flesh on its bones Read more »| 10 Jun 2025 -
InterviewsJavad Daraei on his screenings at Refugee Festival Scotland
Scotland-based director Javad Daraei welcomes us into his home to discuss Iranian cinema, the refugee experience and acts of defiance Read more »| 05 Jun 2025 -
NewsFilmhouse announces date for its reopening
This summer marks the long-anticipated return of Edinburgh’s much-loved arthouse cinema, Filmhouse. Its doors reopen on 27 June Read more »| 05 Jun 2025 -
BooksRyan Gilbey on his new queer cinema book It Used to Be Witches
Film critic Ryan Gilbey talks to us about It Used to Be Witches, his playful new study of queer cinema history blending personal memoir, critical analysis and insightful new interviews with an eclectic ensemble of queer filmmakers Read more »| 03 Jun 2025 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: June 2025
There's a bunch of film festivals this month, Glasgow Film Theatre celebrates two great filmmakers named Michael and Cameo brings David Lynch's legendary TV show Twin Peaks to the big screen Read more »| 28 May 2025 -
New ReleasesBogancloch
Ben Rivers returns to the Aberdeenshire wilderness for another film centred on Jake Williams, the reclusive subject of his 2011 poetic documentary Two Years at Sea. The result is a similarly haunting film brimming with transcendent imagery Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
New ReleasesThe Ballad of Wallis Island
Edinburgh Fringe royalty Tim Key and Tom Basden turn their promising 2007 short into an intimate, bittersweet gem of a movie Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
New ReleasesCastration Movie Anthology I: Traps
The first four and a half hours of Louise Weard’s towering two-parter is a triumph in no-budget filmmaking. Through her camcorder, the director has captured an anthology of gender troubles as textured and grainy as its central characters Read more »| 22 May 2025 -
FestivalsNew Ways of Seeing: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2025
We look back at another invigorating edition of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, where a sense of solidarity was formed in the dark of the cinema auditorium with work reminding us to resist hegemonic narratives and to continue to speak to power Read more »| 15 May 2025