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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NewsHoly Macaroni Pie! Batman is coming to Glasgow
The latest version of Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as The Caped Crusader, will be partly shot in Glasgow, with Scotland’s largest city doubling for Gotham Read more »| 13 Jan 2020 -
OpinionFive great "one-shot" films
Ahead of the release of Sam Mendes's 1917, a first world war film that appears to be shot in just one take, we consider the merits of some of cinema's other great "one-shot" wonders Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
New ReleasesUncut Gems
The Safdie brothers follow up Good Time with another frenetic New York drama, as Adam Sandler gives a great performance as a brash jeweller who dabbles in various suspect tradings across the city Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
OpinionThe Skinny's Films of the 2010s
This was a decade of upheaval and change in the film industry, but the films themselves were as strong as ever. New talent like Jordan Peele and Barry Jenkins emerged while masters like Claire Denis and Martin Scorsese were making some of their best work Read more »| 09 Jan 2020 -
NewsCaitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl to close Glasgow Film Festival
This UK premiere starring Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein will be joined by French drama Proxima, starring Eva Green, which will open the festival Read more »| 09 Jan 2020 -
NewsThe 2020 BAFTA nominations are a joke
Once again, BAFTA – the UK’s leading awards body – has proved itself seriously out-of-touch with its latest set of nominations Read more »| 07 Jan 2020
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Film EventsThe Best Film Events in Scotland in January
As the new year begins, lose yourself in the fantasies of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the dreamscapes of Federico Fellini Read more »| 07 Jan 2020 -
New Releases1917
Over a series of long takes, director Sam Mendes shows himself to be a filmmaker in complete command of his craft, while George MacKay makes for a compelling surrogate for the generation of young men sacrificed in the First World War Read more »| 06 Jan 2020 -
New ReleasesStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
JJ Abrams is eager to give the Star Wars fanboys what they want, but it’s always on his terms Read more »| 18 Dec 2019 -
New ReleasesLittle Women
Greta Gerwig's take on Louisa May Alcott's straightforward epic is elevated by the chemistry between the cast, who include Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Emma Watson Read more »| 17 Dec 2019 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival to turn the Arches into Neo-Glasgow
Glasgow Film Festival announce its first set of special event screenings, which will turn the Argyle Street Arches into Neo-Glasgow for a weekend of special immersive film screenings of sci-fi cult classics from Total Recall to Tank Girl Read more »| 11 Dec 2019 -
New ReleasesSons of Denmark
Ulaa Salim’s thriller takes us to a future Denmark swept up by a far-right political movement Read more »| 10 Dec 2019 -
InterviewsJust Agree Then is the perfect film for 2019
A deadpan documentarian (Duncan Cowles) and an experimental animator (Ross Hogg) spent two weeks in the Austrian Alps making a film together and disagreeing wildly. The result is Just Agree Then, and it's the perfect film for our divided world Read more »| 09 Dec 2019 -
NewsWhere to get your Christmas movie fix this December
From classics like It's a Wonderful Life to the vicious French action film that inspired Home Alone, there are Christmas movies for every predilection screening across Scotland this December Read more »| 04 Dec 2019 -
OpinionMisunderstood Movies: 10 Overlooked Films from 2019
Audiences and critics didn't go crazy for double Will Smith in Ang Lee's latest high frame rate experiment, or the wild monster mash that was Godzilla: King of the Monsters, but we reckon they're among the criminally overlooked films of the year Read more »| 04 Dec 2019