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 Releases
True History of the Kelly Gang
Australian director Justin Kurzel does the Ned Kelly story justice in this uneven but daring film starring George Mackay as the legendary outlaw Read more »| 27 Feb 2020 -
New Releases
The Painted Bird
The Painted Bird might be difficult to endure, but even harder to ignore Read more »| 27 Feb 2020 -
New Releases
Cook F**k Kill
Cook F**k Kill has an arresting opening, but as it moves through its repeating narrative chapters, there's the distinct feeling of diminishing returns Read more »| 26 Feb 2020 -
Interviews
Oliver Hermanus on Moffie
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus returns with Moffie, an extraordinary drama about a gay teen conscripted to fight in the Angolan war in Apartheid-era South Africa Read more »| 26 Feb 2020 -
New Releases
First Cow
The great American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt delivers her sweetest and funniest film to date, a tale of friendship blossoming between two lonely men eeking out an existence in the Old West Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
New Releases
Berlinale 2020: Onward
Pixar's latest, Onward, offers up a pleasingly original premise that's part Weekend at Bernie's, part Cronenberg, but the execution is all too familiar Read more »| 24 Feb 2020
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Interviews
Riot Girls: Michael Caton-Jones on Our Ladies
Veteran filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones returns to filmmaking in Scotland for the first time since 1995's Rob Roy for Our Ladies, his long-in-the-making adaptation of Alan Warner’s The Sopranos Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
New Releases
Dark Waters
Todd Haynes returns with a gripping, true-life procedural centred on the Cincinnati lawyer who tirelessly battled multinational chemical firm DuPont Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
Interviews
Masculinity in Crisis: Peter Mackie Burns on Rialto
Daphne director Peter Mackie Burns returns with fine-grained drama Rialto, which follows a middle-aged Dublin dock worker going through a crisis. The Glaswegian director tells us how the likes of Chekhov, Mike Leigh and David Bowie influence his work Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
New Releases
Portrait 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 -
Cineskinny
How 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 -
Interviews
Alice 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 -
Cineskinny
Dystopian 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 -
Interviews
Simon 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 Releases
To 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