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 ReleasesMotherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton has been trying to adapt Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn for two decades. We're not sure why he bothered Read more »| 03 Dec 2019 -
Film EventsChristmas Gets Dark AF at Summerhall
Summerhall offer up some dark and disturbing Christmas movies this December to get you in the festive spirit Read more »| 03 Dec 2019 -
New ReleasesPink Wall
Tom Cullen's directorial debut drifts through the disquiet of an unfolding romance in six acts Read more »| 02 Dec 2019 -
OpinionAll change at EIFF as artistic director Mark Adams steps down
After five years, Mark Adams steps down from his role as artistic director of Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s an opportunity for a fresh start for a festival that’s in need of reinvention Read more »| 29 Nov 2019 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of 2019: Our Writers' Top 10s
We polled 20 of our film writers to find their ten favourite films of the year. Read their personal lists below Read more »| 29 Nov 2019 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of 2019
A portrait of an artist as a young woman and an epic about some ageing gangsters top our films of the year poll. Elsewhere, there's the story of convicts in space, class tensions in a Cornwall fishing village and the reimaging of a Hollywood tragedy Read more »| 29 Nov 2019
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New ReleasesThe Nightingale
Writer-director Jennifer Kent follows up her creepy debut The Babadook with brutal historical-revenge drama The Nightingale Read more »| 25 Nov 2019 -
InterviewsKaren Gillan on The Party's Just Beginning
Karen Gillan has a busy December ahead. As well as starring in a blockbuster sequel (Jumanji: The Next Level), she's also releasing The Party's Just Beginning, which she wrote, directed and stars in. She tells us where her love of directing began Read more »| 22 Nov 2019 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival lines up film score retrospective for 2020
EIFF celebrates the work of Ennio Morricone, Mica Levi and Delia Derbyshire in its 2020 retrospective Read more »| 20 Nov 2019 -
New ReleasesAtlantics
Mati Diop's feature debut Atlantics feels like the work of an experienced master Read more »| 18 Nov 2019 -
OpinionThe CGI Jeebies: Bringing actors back from the dead
A new movie wants to bring James Dean back from the dead and CGI has removed the need for intergenerational casting in decades-spanning gangster epic The Irishman. What does that mean for the future of screen acting? Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
FestivalsFokus: Films from Germany Preview
German film celebration Fokus returns this winter – we dive into the programme, which takes us back to the hope and creativity of the Weimar era, the darkness of National Socialism and to the most daring works of New German Cinema today Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival lines up dystopian sci-fi retrospective
Glasgow Film Festival unveil a free retrospective of dystopian cinema, and a showcase of Icelandic cinema, for their 2020 edition Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
New ReleasesThe Report
Adam Driver is typically brilliant in this impressively mounted dramatisation of the US Senate’s investigation into torture conducted during the War on Terror Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
New ReleasesA Dog Called Money
Seamus Murphy's documentary is a suitably frustrating companion piece to PJ Harvey's The Hope Six Demolition Project Read more »| 06 Nov 2019