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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Interviews"Hope is a Privilege": Raoul Peck on Orwell 2+2=5
In Orwell 2+2=5, Raoul Peck uses the life and writing of George Orwell as the connective tissue to tell a wider history of totalitarian power and media manipulation, past and present. We find out more from this trenchant political filmmaker Read more »| 02 Mar 2026 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: March 2026
This month choose between two great film festivals (HippFest and GSFF), explore the films of John Schlesinger and Andrzej Wajda, and check out GSA's new cinema season Read more »| 27 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesBroken English
Marianne Faithfull has the last word in this hybrid doc blending interviews, archive, and performance, framed by an imaginary institution fronted by Tilda Swinton Read more »| 26 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsSeán Dunn on The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Edinburgh-born, New York-based filmmaker Seán Dunn discusses his new comedy, The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, the use of Scotland as a Hollywood backdrop and finding inspiration on a Harry Potter tour Read more »| 25 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesSirāt
Oliver Laxe’s desert rave odyssey delivers a thrilling sensory experience, but it is often sloppy and cynical Read more »| 24 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsOliver Laxe on survivalist road movie Sirāt
Sirāt takes audiences on a wild, nerve-jangling journey through the Moroccan desert. Its director, Oliver Laxe, tells us that it was important that his survivalist road movie provided an existential trip as well as an intensely physical one Read more »| 23 Feb 2026
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NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2026 programme
The much-loved GSFF returns for its 19th edition with a spotlight on Iranian filmmaker Gelare Khoshgozaran, an archive programme celebrating the Clyde, and the festival’s usual expert curation of shorts from across the world Read more »| 19 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsNew GFF head Paul Gallagher on the future of Glasgow Film Festival
Paul Gallagher, the long-time programmer at Glasgow Film Theatre, recently took over as Head of Programme for all of Glasgow Film's operations, which include the annual festival. We chat to him about his hopes for GFF ahead of his first edition in charge Read more »| 19 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsKleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent
Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, The Secret Agent has been a huge success for its talented director, Kleber Mendonça Filho. Even world leaders are taking notice of it! The Brazilian filmmaker tells us more Read more »| 17 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesThe Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent, set during Brazil's brutal dictatorship, blends a dazzling thriller plot with a compelling depiction of a community creating a pocket of resistance Read more »| 17 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesThe Testament of Ann Lee
Amanda Seyfried gives a stunning performance as the female Christ in Mona Fastvold's transcendent chronicle of faith, utopia and intractable pain Read more »| 16 Feb 2026 -
New ReleasesIf I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Rose Byrne gives a brilliant, harrowing turn as a frazzled mother being put through the wringer in this impeccably put-together black comedy that's as repellent as it is compelling Read more »| 16 Feb 2026 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival announces guests for 2026
James McAvoy will present his directorial debut, California Schemin', in person at GFF this year. Other filmmakers in attendance include Mark Jenkin, Alice Winocour and Felipe Bustos Sierra Read more »| 13 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsFelipe Bustos Sierra on Everybody to Kenmure Street
The Kenmure Street protest of 2021 saw a community save two of their neighbours from deportation through solidarity and collective action. Felipe Bustos Sierra's film Everybody to Kenmure Street immortalises this special day in Glasgow's history Read more »| 12 Feb 2026 -
InterviewsHasan Hadi on The President’s Cake
Hasan Hadi’s directorial debut, The President’s Cake, sees a young girl go on an odyssey to bake Saddam Hussein a cake. Hadi explains why it was imperative that the film be shot in Iraq and his ambitions for it to encourage more filmmaking in the country Read more »| 10 Feb 2026