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 ReleasesPortrait of a Lady on Fire
French director Céline Sciamma's imagined historical romance is a love story for the ages Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
CineskinnyHow we watch movies in the age of streaming
Not a year goes by without some blowhard predicting the death of cinema, but in 2020, the dominance of streaming platforms is becoming hard to ignore. Join us at GFF to discuss how we watch films in the age of streaming Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
InterviewsAlice Winocour on Glasgow Film Festival opener Proxima
Disorder director Alice Winocour tells how new film Proxima, which follows an astronaut juggling space training with raising her young daughter, is still very much an "earthy" movie Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
CineskinnyDystopian Sci-fi at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Hoping for a bright, shiny future with flying cars and labour-saving technology? Glasgow Film Festival's daily retrospective suggests some less upbeat possibilities for humanity Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
InterviewsSimon Bird on directing Days of the Bagnold Summer
The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird introduces us to his debut feature film Days of the Bagnold Summer, a sweet comedy focused on the precarious relationship between a well-intentioned librarian mother and her metalhead teen son Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
New ReleasesTo All the Boys: PS I Still Love You
The sequel to Netflix's popular teen rom-com To All the Boys I've Loved Before wears its heart on its sleeve and, in star Lana Condor, has an endlessly watchable protagonist. Perfect for Valentine's Day streaming Read more »| 13 Feb 2020
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FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival: The 2020 programme
The newly independent Glasgow Short Film Festival announces its jam-packed five-day programme of over 180 screenings Read more »| 13 Feb 2020 -
NewsThe French Dispatch looks like Wes Anderson to the max
The trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded movie, The French Dispatch is here, featuring Frances McDormand, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton, Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Anderson’s talisman Bill Murray... and Timothée Chalamet in the bath Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
FestivalsParasite comes to Glasgow Film Festival in black & white
Glasgow film fans will be the first to see the new black and white version of Best Picture-winner Parasite, Bong Joon-ho’s wildly inventive class satire, the colour version of which is currently going great guns in UK cinemas Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
NewsParasite causes a glorious upset at the Oscars
Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or-winning satire comes up trumps at the Oscars, beating bookies’ favourite 1917 to the top prize. It’s the first foreign-language film ever to do so Read more »| 10 Feb 2020 -
New ReleasesFirst Love
The relentless Takashi Miike is back, this time with a madcap gangster mashup that's as genuinely thrilling as it is ridiculous Read more »| 10 Feb 2020 -
InterviewsScott Graham & the cast on Scottish small-town drama Run
Shell and Iona director Scott Graham returns with third feature Run. Sitting down with The Skinny and some of the film's cast, Graham tells us how his tale was inspired by a visit to his hometown and the story of a Bruce Springsteen obsessed fisherman Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
Film EventsScottish Film and Streaming Highlights: February 2020
A look at this month's top film events, from a Fellini season in Edinburgh to the return of IberoDocs and Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 04 Feb 2020 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2020: Our Top Ten Films
Family feuds, apocalyptic absurdism and hard-hitting historical drama – here are our picks from the GFF programme Read more »| 31 Jan 2020 -
OpinionThe Beautiful Mundanity of Studio Ghibli
The celebration of the everyday in Studio Ghibli's films makes them the ideal animation studio for restorative home-watching Read more »| 31 Jan 2020