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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OpinionFilms of 2019: Mid-year report
We're roughly midway through 2019 so it's time to take the temperature on this year's movies so far. Bleak sci-fi High Life, raunchy high school comedy Booksmart and Scottish clubbing drama Beats are among our writers' highlights Read more »| 26 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesIn Fabric
Peter Strickland continues to push at narrative conventions with this witty costume horror that's another extraordinarily rich and strange work from a unique filmmaker Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesRobert the Bruce
Angus Macfadyen returns to the role he played 24 years ago in Mel Gibson's Braveheart with this stoic take on the Scottish freedom fighter that plays like a Celtic western Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesSupport the Girls
The Hooters-style bar setting of Andrew Bujalski's Support the Girls and its double entendre title prove a misdirect; this is an empathetic, refreshingly incisive portrait of women at work that's as funny as it is generous Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesMemory: The Origins of Alien
78/52 director Alexandre O Philippe delves into the world of Ridley Scott's Alien – fanatics will find little new here, but this is an entertaining, informative companion to the 1979 sci-fi Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FestivalsFarming
A young Nigerian boy farmed out to a white Tilbury family joins a gang of skinheads as a teenager in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s debut feature, Farming Read more »| 24 Jun 2019
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New ReleasesBait
Mark Jenkin emerges as a distinctive new voice in British filmmaking with this innovatively shot and edited melodrama concerned with the class tensions bubbling over between the skint locals and the wealthy holidaymakers in a Cornwall fishing village Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesAlways Be My Maybe
Always Be My Maybe is held back from being the next great romantic comedy thanks to a lack of clarity in its overall design but, as a home stream that’s sweet, warm and light, it’s the perfect comfort food Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesVarda by Agnès
The final film from French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda is touching, but there's little new to be gleaned from it Read more »| 22 Jun 2019 -
InterviewsHarry Wootliff and stars on Glasgow drama Only You
Glasgow plays a pivotal role in the new romantic drama Only You, which follows a couple from a New Year's Eve hookup to the trials of conceiving a baby. We speak to director Harry Wootliff and stars Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor about the film Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesGwen
A gritty performance by Maxine Peake and richly bleak photography by Adam Etherington are more than enough to recommend folk horror Gwen Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
InterviewsAngus Macfadyen on Robert the Bruce
You wait years for a Robert the Bruce film... and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of Outlaw King, Angus Macfadyen reprises the role he played in Braveheart and tells us why he felt compelled to write an anti-war version of the Bruce legend Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesHurt by Paradise
Female friendship is at the heart of Greta Bellamacina's debut feature, although she sometimes lets her visual style get in the way of her charismatic characters Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
New ReleasesGet Duked!
Eddie Izzard plays a murderous aristocrat tracking four working-class teens hiking in the Highlands in this wildly comic class satire from music video director Ninian Doff Read more »| 19 Jun 2019 -
FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival: Five Asian films to discover
Edinburgh International Film Festival doesn’t have its own Asian strand but it always offers a good number of noteworthy titles from the East. Here’s a selection of the most intriguing films on offer in 2019 Read more »| 18 Jun 2019