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 ReleasesTriple Frontier
JC Chandor (Margin Call, A Most Violent Year) assembles a great cast for Triple Frontier, an old-school heist movie in which a group of mercenaries get greedy on one last job Read more »| 14 Mar 2019 -
NewsCaptain Marvel joins the Avengers in new Endgame trailer
Brie Larson’s box-office juggernaut joins Thor, Black Widow et al in the latest Avengers Endgame trailer Read more »| 14 Mar 2019 -
NewsDoc'n Roll music film festival coming to Scotland
The annual music documentary festival, Doc’n Roll has screenings in Scotland for the first time ever, with six films coming to the Cameo in Edinburgh in April Read more »| 13 Mar 2019 -
NewsEnter your film to The Skinny's new short film showcase
We want to celebrate the best of Scotland's emerging filmmaking talent, so we're launching The CineSkinny on Tour. We're looking for short films to be part of this new showcase; to enter your short film, read on... Read more »| 13 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesUnder the Silver Lake
Andrew Garfield leads us down a rabbit hole in David Robert Mitchell's dreamy, gorgeous and at times baffling LA neo-noir Read more »| 12 Mar 2019 -
NewsThe live action Aladdin trailer drops... oh dear
Prepare for your childhood to be ruined, kids, because the live action version of Aladdin looks horrible Read more »| 12 Mar 2019
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InterviewsGSFF unearth First Reels
Ahead of Glasgow Short Film Festival's First Reels retrospective, GSFF director Matt Lloyd gives us the lowdown on this innovative, forward-thinking 90s short films production scheme Read more »| 12 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesMinding the Gap
Bing Liu's 12-year-spanning Minding the Gap is both a great skating doc and a moving portrait of how toxic masculinity can manifest in destructive ways Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
InterviewsGuy Maddin on skew-whiff Vertigo remake The Green Fog
The endlessly inventive Guy Maddin has crafted a skew-whiff remake of Vertigo from clips of films set in San Francisco. The result is both loving homage and sly critique, and the Canadian director cheekily suggests he's improved on Hitchcock's original Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesTrue/False 2019: Knock Down the House
Rachel Lears' documentary follows four women running for Congress in the midterm elections of 2018, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read more »| 09 Mar 2019 -
Film EventsThe Best Film Events in Scotland in March
The big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from Glasgow Short Film Festival to the Cameo's new All Night Cult Movie Experience Read more »| 08 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesCaptain Marvel
Captain Marvel veers from confusing space opera, to fun buddy movie, back to boring Marvel action extravaganza, but Brie Larson's wise-cracking and a killer 90s soundtrack keep this latest MCU film watchable Read more »| 08 Mar 2019 -
InterviewsCarol Morley on her dream-like noir Out of Blue
Carol Morley's latest film is a hard-boiled police drama based on a Martin Amis novel and it unfolds like a Lynchian dream noir. We speak to the Salfordian director about the art of adaptation, gender and taking female-driven stories seriously Read more »| 08 Mar 2019 -
InterviewsMeet The Final Girls, the feminist film collective changing the horror scene
We speak to The Final Girls, the all-female feminist collective celebrating horror and creating a platform for female horror directors to get their films seen on the big screen Read more »| 07 Mar 2019 -
InterviewsSoda_Jerk on TERROR NULLIUS
Australian renegade archivists Soda_Jerk bring TERROR NULLIUS, their coruscating critique of the Australian myth, to Glasgow Short Film Festival this month. Ahead of the screening, we ask the duo about sample culture and the controversy their film caused Read more »| 07 Mar 2019