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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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 -
Opinion2019 in Scottish Film, from Avengers to Beats
Blockbusters like Avengers and Fast and the Furious have helped make Scotland a major Hollywood shooting location, but the real story of Scottish cinema in 2019 is the diverse collection of distinctive and joyous homegrown indies lighting up our cinemas Read more »| 04 Dec 2019
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NewsBlack Widow: first trailer for Scarlett Johansson’s standalone movie
The coolest Avenger – the KGB assassin turned superhero Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow – gets her own movie Read more »| 03 Dec 2019 -
New ReleasesSo Long, My Son
Wang Xiaoshuai's epic Chinese drama has a lot to say about family caught in the tide of history – and has trouble saying it Read more »| 03 Dec 2019 -
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 -
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