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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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 -
FestivalsThe Skinny at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
We're presenting a chat on the future of cinema at Glasgow Film Festival – and helping throw a whopper of a party as well... Read more »| 29 Jan 2020 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2020: Programme revealed
The GFF 2020 programme features new films from Anthony Baxter, Mark Cousins and Hirokazu Kore-eda Read more »| 29 Jan 2020
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InterviewsArmando Iannucci on Dickens, Dev Patel and modern politics
Alan Partridge and The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci talks us through his Dickens adaptation, The Personal History of David Copperfield Read more »| 24 Jan 2020 -
FestivalsDays of the Bagnold Summer set for Glasgow Film Festival
The Skinny are teaming up with Glasgow Film Festival for the Scottish premiere of the new film by Simon Bird, with a soundtrack by Belle and Sebastian Read more »| 24 Jan 2020 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival unveils 2020 opening film
Glasgow Short Film Festival opens with a hybrid of film and performance, with the 2020 edition also hosting a rare gig from synth pioneer Felix Kubin Read more »| 23 Jan 2020 -
InterviewsRobert Eggers and Willem Dafoe on The Lighthouse
The Witch director Robert Eggers returns with The Lighthouse, another meticulously detailed period horror. We sat down with Eggers and one-half of his cast (the legendary Willem Dafoe) to hear about the arduous shoot and Robert Pattinson peeing his pants Read more »| 21 Jan 2020 -
New ReleasesA Hidden Life
It's two steps forward and one back as Terrence Malick returns with A Hidden Life. Visually and narratively it's the filmmaker's most vital work since The Tree of Life, but a lack of tension and a bizarre approach to language hobbles the movie Read more »| 20 Jan 2020 -
NewsWatch Adam Sandler lose his shit in Goldman v Silverman
Fresh from collaborating on the electrifying Uncut Gems, the Safdie brothers release a secret short film starring Adam Sandler, filmed in Times Square Read more »| 17 Jan 2020 -
New ReleasesBombshell
This star-studded examination of the 2016 sex scandal at Fox News features an impressive impersonation of former Fox star Megyn Kelly by Charlize Theron, but elsewhere the approach by director Jay Roach to the material feels glib and unsatisfying Read more »| 16 Jan 2020 -
InterviewsTerry Gilliam on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Former Python and maverick filmmaker Terry Gilliam speaks to us about finally finishing his long-gestating, possibly cursed magnum opus The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and tells us he'd rather be toiling with no money than working at the Marvel factory Read more »| 15 Jan 2020 -
NewsOscar nominations are in and it's all lads, lads, lads
Once again it's an all-male lineup in the Best Director category, and the awful Joker is somehow this year's frontrunner with 11 nominations, but it's not all bad in this year's anyone-could-win Oscars race Read more »| 13 Jan 2020