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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NewsFilmhouse announces date for its reopening
This summer marks the long-anticipated return of Edinburgh’s much-loved arthouse cinema, Filmhouse. Its doors reopen on 27 June Read more »| 05 Jun 2025 -
BooksRyan Gilbey on his new queer cinema book It Used to Be Witches
Film critic Ryan Gilbey talks to us about It Used to Be Witches, his playful new study of queer cinema history blending personal memoir, critical analysis and insightful new interviews with an eclectic ensemble of queer filmmakers Read more »| 03 Jun 2025 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: June 2025
There's a bunch of film festivals this month, Glasgow Film Theatre celebrates two great filmmakers named Michael and Cameo brings David Lynch's legendary TV show Twin Peaks to the big screen Read more »| 28 May 2025 -
New ReleasesBogancloch
Ben Rivers returns to the Aberdeenshire wilderness for another film centred on Jake Williams, the reclusive subject of his 2011 poetic documentary Two Years at Sea. The result is a similarly haunting film brimming with transcendent imagery Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
New ReleasesThe Ballad of Wallis Island
Edinburgh Fringe royalty Tim Key and Tom Basden turn their promising 2007 short into an intimate, bittersweet gem of a movie Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
New ReleasesCastration Movie Anthology I: Traps
The first four and a half hours of Louise Weard’s towering two-parter is a triumph in no-budget filmmaking. Through her camcorder, the director has captured an anthology of gender troubles as textured and grainy as its central characters Read more »| 22 May 2025
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FestivalsNew Ways of Seeing: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2025
We look back at another invigorating edition of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, where a sense of solidarity was formed in the dark of the cinema auditorium with work reminding us to resist hegemonic narratives and to continue to speak to power Read more »| 15 May 2025 -
InterviewsAmalia Ulman on Magic Farm
Amalia Ulman’s visually striking culture clash comedy Magic Farm follows some inept journalists trying to make a film in a rural Argentine town. The artist and filmmaker discusses working with her idol (Chloë Sevigny) and finding beauty everywhere Read more »| 13 May 2025 -
InterviewsIndia Donaldson on Good One
India Donaldson's debut feature, Good One, is a striking portrait of a father-daughter relationship. She talks to us about girlhood, empathetic writing and the ‘man or bear’ debate her protagonist could’ve started Read more »| 13 May 2025 -
New ReleasesMagic Farm
A group of inept hipster filmmakers from New York descend on a small town in Argentina in this fanciful satire from Argentine-Spanish conceptual artist and film director Amalia Ulman Read more »| 12 May 2025 -
New ReleasesGood One
The shifting power dynamics on an awkward father-daughter camping trip sit at the heart of Good One, a compelling indie drama from India Donaldson Read more »| 12 May 2025 -
FestivalsBen Wheatley's BULK to world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival
Ben Wheatley's new film BULK will open Edinburgh International Film Festival's Midnight Madness strand this year. We're told to expect "car chases, gun fights, sci-fi and romance" Read more »| 09 May 2025 -
NewsEdinburgh Film Festival reveals 2025 opening film
The 2025 edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will kick off with Sorry, Baby, the offbeat comedy-drama from director Eva Victor Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
OpinionThe sins of streamers and the lost treasures of DVDs
As DVDs turn 30 this year, we lament their scarceness in 2025’s hostile streaming environment and the rich possibilities they held Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
InterviewsKarim Aïnouz on Motel Destino
Motel Destino is a steamy neo-noir in which a young man hides out at a roadside motel, only to find more danger when he gets romantically entangled with the woman who manages the establishment with her volatile husband. Director Karim Aïnouz tells us more Read more »| 06 May 2025