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 ReleasesOrdinary Love
Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson give career-best performances in this tale of a middle-aged couple’s brush with cancer Read more »| 14 Oct 2019 -
New ReleasesLFF 2019: Ema
Starring Pablo Mariana di Girolamo and Gael García Bernal, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín's new film is a seductive, opaque study of grief and sex Read more »| 14 Oct 2019 -
New ReleasesLFF 2019: Zombi Child
French auteur Bertrand Bonello (House of Tolerance, Nocturama) delivers an engaged, pointed takedown of the voodoo movie Read more »| 11 Oct 2019 -
New ReleasesBabyteeth
This hilarious, bittersweet comedy from Australian director Shannon Murphy is among the sparkiest feature film debuts in recent memory Read more »| 11 Oct 2019 -
Film EventsNeu! Reekie! to premiere Mark Cousins' new film
Neu! Reekie! are heading to Leith Theatre this month with a night that sees the premiere of Mark Cousins' latest film and the launch of Neu! Reekie!'s new poetry anthology Read more »| 11 Oct 2019 -
New ReleasesNon-Fiction
Olivier Assayas's very funny Non-Fiction has a sparkling cast and sees the French auteur once again contemplating our relationship with technology Read more »| 11 Oct 2019
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New ReleasesLFF 2019: Marriage Story
Powerful performances from Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson can't disguise a certain staleness in Noah Baumbach's latest film Read more »| 09 Oct 2019 -
New ReleasesLFF 2019: Run
Scott Graham’s third feature follows a petrol-head who was born to run, but instead never left his small fishing village in Scotland Read more »| 08 Oct 2019 -
InterviewsShort Films on TV: Random Acts and BBC Scotland
With Scotland's vibrant short film scene and myriad online platforms, it's never been easier to see short films – thanks to programmes like BBC Scotland's Next Big Thing, there are plenty of opportunities to stumble across shorts on TV too Read more »| 08 Oct 2019 -
New ReleasesRose Plays Julie
The Desperate Optimists (Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor) return with another stylish study of identity and trauma Read more »| 07 Oct 2019 -
InterviewsThe Peanut Butter Falcon: Meet the directors
Indie directors Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson discuss their breakout hit The Peanut Butter Falcon, a lyrical buddy movie about a young man with Down's syndrome taking to the road with a struggling fisherman, played by Shia LaBeouf Read more »| 04 Oct 2019 -
InterviewsScottish musicians on their soundtracking sidehustles
Scottish cinema has had a resurgence of late, and the same can also be said for film music being produced by Scottish musicians. We speak to a range of different artists working in film to get a handle on how they approach this side of their practice Read more »| 04 Oct 2019 -
New ReleasesLFF 2019: The Peanut Butter Falcon
The potentially mawkish premise of this odd-couple road movie is overcome by an authentic sense of place and the compelling bond formed onscreen between leads Zack Gottsagen and Shia LaBeouf Read more »| 04 Oct 2019 -
New ReleasesThe Day Shall Come
Like a tragicomic B-side to the more brutal Four Lions, Chris Morris leads us inside the surrealist logic of an FBI agency who are arming tin-pot terrorists so they can take them down Read more »| 03 Oct 2019 -
Festivals
12 of the best films at London Film Festival 2019
London Film Festival offers up another embarrassment of riches. Here are a dozen films that we think look great and, crucially, haven't completely sold out yet, like many of the other gala screenings Read more »| 02 Oct 2019