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 ReleasesGFF 2021: Shorta
There are shades of Walter Hill in this breathless police thriller, which is great when trading in cop movie clichés but less sure-footed when trying to address real-world concerns about institutional racism and police brutality Read more »| 02 Mar 2021 -
InterviewsSweetheart: A new kind of coming-out movie
New coming-of-age film Sweetheart is a fresh take on the coming-out drama: it's more concerned with what happens next. Writer-director Marley Morrison and star Nell Barlow discuss the supportive shoot and avoiding the cliches of queer cinema Read more »| 01 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Iorram (Boat Song)
Blending audio from the past and images of the present, Iorram's mosaic of everyday life, myth and folk song paints a compelling portrait of the tight-knit fishing communities of the Outer Hebrides Read more »| 01 Mar 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché
Blending archival footage, diary extracts and voiceover interviews, I Am A Cliché celebrates the life and legacy of X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene Read more »| 26 Feb 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Black Bear
Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon are electric as the three leads in Lawrence Michael Levine's metadrama concerned with shifting identities and cruel power games Read more »| 26 Feb 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Riders of Justice
If Taken featured scenes of screwball comedy and tender male bonding, it might look a bit like Riders of Justice, which stars Mads Mikkelsen as a soldier out for revenge after the death of his wife Read more »| 25 Feb 2021
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New ReleasesGFF 2021: Castro’s Spies
Compelling doc following the Cuban Five, a group of undercover agents who lived in Florida in the 1990s gathering intel for Castro Read more »| 25 Feb 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Creation Stories
Creation Stories is anchored by a magnetic performance from Ewen Bremner, but Nick Moran's biopic of the larger-than-life Alan McGee is surprisingly conventional Read more »| 25 Feb 2021 -
New ReleasesGFF 2021: Minari
Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical drama takes us back to the 1980s, where a Korean American family is trying to adjust to life in rural Arkansas. The result is a film touched by magic Read more »| 23 Feb 2021 -
OpinionHow Trainspotting Changed Scotland, 25 Years On
How Danny Boyle's swaggering and hilarious film about a group of young heroin addicts in Edinburgh seared itself on a generation's consciousness and helped change Scotland forever Read more »| 22 Feb 2021 -
InterviewsBen Sharrock on moving refugee comedy Limbo
Humour and humanity abound in Limbo, Ben Sharrock's moving deadpan comedy about a group of refugees killing time on a desolate Scottish island, patiently hoping to be granted visas Read more »| 19 Feb 2021 -
FestivalsLawrence Michael Levine on Black Bear
Aubrey Plaza is a revelation in Lawrence Michael Levine's surprising dark comedy Black Bear. Levine got the idea from a dream – over our chat we dig into his subconscious and the surreal film's hidden meanings Read more »| 18 Feb 2021 -
NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival returns for its 14th edition
The mighty Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals the films in its two competitions, and shares its 2021 launch trailer Read more »| 17 Feb 2021 -
NewsGFF 2021 add more films to the lineup
GFF will host UK premiere of Tina and First Cow, as well as a free screening of doc Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In Read more »| 17 Feb 2021 -
OpinionIFFR 2021: Small-scale film gems from Rotterdam
Part one of International Film Festival Rotterdam's two-part 2021 festival was sprinkled with enough small-scale gems to suggest arthouse and experimental cinema might still be in reasonable shape. We report back on some highlights Read more »| 15 Feb 2021