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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NewsKen Loach's new film to close Take One Action 2019
Take One Action 2019 will close with Sorry We Missed You, the latest film from Ken Loach, and will open with Push, a doc concerned with the worldwide crisis in affordable housing Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
InterviewsGurinder Chadha and Sarfraz Manzoor on Blinded by the Light
Fancy a Bruce Springsteen musical set in [check notes]...Luton? Director Gurinder Chadha and writer Sarfraz Manzoor tell us how they convinced the Boss to lend his all-American songbook to their film about a Muslim teen coming-of-age in Thatcher's Britain Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
Film EventsThe Best Film Events in Scotland in August
The Scottish film events you should make time for this month; from a Spike Lee season to some eccentric cinema at Matchbox Cineclub's Weird Weekend Read more »| 01 Aug 2019 -
NewsWatch the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci all appear in the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's gangster film The Irishman, which looks epic Read more »| 31 Jul 2019 -
NewsRobert Pattinson fights an octopus in the first trailer from The Lighthouse
The Witch director Robert Eggers returns with The Lighthouse, a wild-looking two-hander starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesAnimals
Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat play hedonistic party-girls in this prosaic, muddled dramedy from Sophie Hyde Read more »| 30 Jul 2019
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InterviewsSophie Hyde on hard-drinking flatmates drama Animals
Sophie Hyde, the Australian filmmaker behind 52 Tuesdays, returns with Emma Jane Unsworth adaptation Animals, a tender study of female friendship starring Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat. Hyde sits down with us to talk adaptation, poetry and Dublin Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
InterviewsNick Broomfield on Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
Kurt & Courtney, Biggie & Tupac, Whitney Houston – a significant chunk of Nick Broomfield's career has involved exploring the lives of musicians. His latest film, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, is similarly probing, but with a more personal connection Read more »| 26 Jul 2019 -
FestivalsDoc and Awe: IceDocs film festival review
The film festival industry may be oversaturated, but there's room for more when the curation is as sharp as that in IceDocs, a new documentary festival in Akranes, Iceland. We report back from what is hopefully the first of many editions Read more »| 26 Jul 2019 -
NewsScotland gets its first Kung Fu Film Festival
Summerhall in Edinburgh will play host to a Kung Fu Film Festival featuring Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan classics, as well as two films from Stephen Chow Read more »| 16 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesThe Lion King
Jon Favreau’s photo-realistic remake of The Lion King is a gasp-inducing visual spectacle, but the magic of the original isn’t quite there Read more »| 15 Jul 2019 -
FestivalsKVIFF 2019: Jan-Ole Gerster on Lara
Talented German filmmaker Jan-Ole Gerster follows-up his arthouse hit Oh Boy with the tragicomic Lara, one of the big winners at this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Read more »| 12 Jul 2019 -
Festivals54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: The Highlights
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, central Europe's premiere celebration of cinema, offered up a number of delights in its main competition strand this year, while its expansive Youssef Chahine retrospective overflowed with treasures Read more »| 12 Jul 2019 -
FestivalsWeird Weekend to unearth lost Bill Murray masterpiece
Tom Schiller's lost comic gem Nothing Lasts Forever features in the second Weird Weekend from Matchbox Cineclub, as does Joe Dante's suburban satire The 'Burbs and Věra Chytilová’s teen horror Wolf’s Hole Read more »| 10 Jul 2019 -
New ReleasesKVIFF 2019: The Lodge
The directors of Goodnight Mommy return with an enjoyably twisted psychological horror centred on an extraordinary performance by Riley Keough Read more »| 04 Jul 2019