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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Film EventsThe Best Film Events in Scotland in January
As the new year begins, lose yourself in the fantasies of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the dreamscapes of Federico Fellini Read more »| 07 Jan 2020 -
New Releases1917
Over a series of long takes, director Sam Mendes shows himself to be a filmmaker in complete command of his craft, while George MacKay makes for a compelling surrogate for the generation of young men sacrificed in the First World War Read more »| 06 Jan 2020 -
New ReleasesStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
JJ Abrams is eager to give the Star Wars fanboys what they want, but it’s always on his terms Read more »| 18 Dec 2019 -
New ReleasesLittle Women
Greta Gerwig's take on Louisa May Alcott's straightforward epic is elevated by the chemistry between the cast, who include Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Emma Watson Read more »| 17 Dec 2019 -
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
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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 -
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