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 ReleasesAnd Then We Danced
The tinderbox of Georgia's conservative society is the backdrop for this coming-of-age romance about a young male dancer exploring same-sex desires within the strict Georgian folk dance community Read more »| 09 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesPromising Young Woman
This rape-revenge thriller for the #MeToo era is bracing and funny, and centred on a knockout turn from Carey Mulligan, but it falls at the final hurdle with a winking ending that attempts to be both downbeat and crowd-pleasing Read more »| 06 Mar 2020 -
InterviewsThe Skinny on... Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran's hilarious coming-of-age memoir How to Build a Girl is soon to hit the big screen, with Booksmart's Beanie Feldstein playing the Moran surrogate. Read on to discover Moran's fave Beatle, best interview subject and a secret about bums Read more »| 05 Mar 2020 -
Tv RadioPsychokinesis: The Great Unwatched
In our search through some of the best oddities Netflix has to offer, a look at this Korean superhero movie in which a middle-aged security guard develops some surprising new abilities Read more »| 04 Mar 2020 -
Tv RadioGirlfriend's Day: The Great Unwatched
Bob Odenkirk is a greeting card writer embroiled in a Coens-esque web of violence and intrigue in Girlfriend's Day – we delve into the Netflix back catalogue to take a look Read more »| 04 Mar 2020 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events & Streaming Highlights: March 2020
Another cracking month of Scottish filmgoing is ahead this month, featuring silent film festival HippFest, Glasgow Short Film Festival and a season on Joy and Despair in Japanese Cinema at Filmhouse Read more »| 03 Mar 2020
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InterviewsThe Female Gaze: Mark Cousins on Women Make Film
With his epic 14-hour documentary Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, Mark Cousins offers a rapturous celebration of women filmmakers Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesThe Perfect Candidate
Saudi director Haifaa al-Mansour is back on form with The Perfect Candidate, a pointed critique of her country's endemic social misogyny and the way it works to police women’s behaviour Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesRunning to the Sky
Empathetic and mature coming-of-age film from Heavenly Nomadic director Mirlan Abdykalykov Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesDriveways
Understated but emotional drama from Spa Night director Andrew Ahn, centred on an elegant cross-generational friendship that forms between a Korean War veteran and a Korean-American boy Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesThe Truth
The great Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda heads to Paris for his Western cinema debut, which stars Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke and Catherine Deneuve Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesFlint
Scottish filmmaker Anthony Baxter heads to Flint, Michigan for this melancholy documentary exploring the city's ongoing water emergency Read more »| 02 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesBerlinale 2020: Undine
After delivering three knockouts on the trot, German director Christian Petzold jumps the shark (or should that be catfish) with this goofy fantasy set in modern-day Berlin, in which Paula Beer plays the soul-sucking water nymph of the title Read more »| 02 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesEternal Beauty
Craig Roberts returns to the director's chair with the powerful story of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia. Sally Hawkins gives a superb performance in the lead role Read more »| 02 Mar 2020 -
New ReleasesMaster Cheng
Finnish filmmaker Mika Kaurismäki returns with a story about a chef and his son coming to a remote village Read more »| 01 Mar 2020