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 ReleasesTrue/False 2019: Amazing Grace
Sydney Pollack's long-buried Aretha Franklin concert movie Amazing Grace gets resurrected; it's a glorious film, but the singer may not be its true star Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesGFF19: Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen is excellent in this survivalist thriller following a man stranded in the Arctic Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
NewsHereditary director returns with Swedish folk horror Midsommar
Ari Aster gave us the scariest film of 2018 with Hereditary. Could Midsommar, his new folk horror set at a Swedish festival, take the same title in 2019? Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
FestivalsThe best of Glasgow Film Festival 2019: Our Picks
Our writers look back at their highlights from the Glasgow Film Festival, with favorite films including a Nordic fantasy, an Indian action comedy, and music films about the Soviet rock movement and 90s rave culture in West Lothian Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
InterviewsSara Colangelo on The Kindergarten Teacher
In The Kindergarten Teacher, Maggie Gyllenhaal becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy when it comes to poetry. We talk to writer-director Sara Colangelo about the making of her unsettling, hard to classify film Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
Film EventsFull Andrea Arnold retrospective at GFT
The Glasgow cinema crown the British filmmaker Andrea Arnold their newest CineMaster with a full retrospective of her features throughout March Read more »| 05 Mar 2019
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Dvd ReviewsPossum
Possum is not particularly scary, but its portrait of a ruined life and horror of psychological trauma will haunt viewers well after the cut to black Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesThe Kindergarten Teacher
In Sara Colangelo’s Sundance award-winner, she gives us an unnerving take on the mid-life crisis Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesGFF19: Vox Lux
Brady Corbet's sophomore feature is as confident and ambitious as his brilliant debut The Childhood of a Leader, but it's thrown off course by Natalie Portman's shallow performance as a cynical pop star Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesGFF19: Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss delivers a tour-de-force performance in this unruly punk epic about a 90s riot grrrl coming apart at the seams, and intent on taking her entourage down with her Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesGFF19: Benjamin
Simon Amstell's Benjamin is a breathtakingly sincere romance that should be admired and cherished Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesBeats
Based on Kieran Hurley's celebrated stage show, Beats takes us back to the dying embers of West Lothian's 90s illegal rave scene for a lively coming-of-age comedy-drama that's both euphoric and bittersweet Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesGFF19: Everybody Knows
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is back with this Spain-set kidnapping drama starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesGFF19: The Man Who Feels No Pain
Vasan Bala's Indian action-comedy The Man Who Feels No Pain riffs on 80s and 90s action films, not only referencing them but also recreating the feeling of watching them Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
New ReleasesGFF19: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Lean and moody crime thriller set in an isolated militia bunker Read more »| 01 Mar 2019