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 Releases
GFF19: Out of Blue
Carol Morley’s dreamlike noir is full of ambition, but never quite works despite a commendable effort from star Patricia Clarkson Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
New Releases
GFF19: Killing
Cult director Shin’ya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) returns with this disappointing samurai movie. Read more »| 01 Mar 2019 -
Interviews
Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The tale of how a Malawian schoolboy saved his village by building a wind turbine from bits of scrap is the basis of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Chiwetel Ejiofor tells us why he wanted to bring William Kamkwamba's inspirational story to the screen Read more »| 28 Feb 2019 -
Interviews
Samuel Maoz on Foxtrot
Samuel Maoz's second feature, Foxtrot, is an allegorical three-act drama dealing with grief and faith in modern-day Israel. The director tells us about his new film and the controversy it's caused in his home nation Read more »| 27 Feb 2019 -
New Releases
Genesis
French-Canadian filmmaker Philippe Lesage follows up his knockout debut film The Demons with Genesis, a lyrical and imaginatively structured coming-of-age film concerned with three tender stories of young love Read more »| 27 Feb 2019 -
New Releases
GFF19: Dragged Across Concrete
Dragged Across Concrete is a sublime action flick – but Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn's right wing cops are not the heroes we need right now Read more »| 26 Feb 2019
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New Releases
Happy as Lazzaro
Alice Rohrwacher’s drama about a village of peasant farmers cut off from society spills from poetic realism to dreamy fantasy to tell a spellbinding story that’s a potent allegory for the pervasive evils of modern capitalism Read more »| 26 Feb 2019 -
Interviews
John Butler, Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño on Papi Chulo
Papi Chulo is a sweet comedy-drama about an LA weatherman going through an existential crisis. At Glasgow Film Festival we sit down with John Butler, Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño – Papi Chulo's director and co-stars respectively – to discuss the film Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
New Releases
GFF19: Eighth Grade
Adolescence is hell in this spiky but tender debut from US standup Bo Burnham, which follows a painfully awkward 13-year-old on her last few days of middle school, with high school looming Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
New Releases
GFF19: Fighting with My Family
Stephen Merchant's wrestling comedy Fighting With My Family sticks close to the underdog formula, but it's a formula that works well Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
News
Green Book's Oscar win is a catastrophe of bad taste
The glib race-relations drama joins the likes of Crash, Argo and Driving Miss Daisy on the long list of mediocre films to win Best Picture Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
New Releases
Cold Pursuit
Another bit of 'Neesplotation' that's quite entertaining for a while, but Neeson's recent confessions of racist revenge fantasies in his youth also leave a bad taste Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
New Releases
The Sisters Brothers
Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly stars in Jacques Audiard’s nihilistic, beautiful, sweet post-western The Sisters Brothers Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
New Releases
GFF19: The Vanishing
Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler and Connor Swindells play lighthouse keepers going through psychological turmoil in Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm’s handsome, satisfyingly dour Scottish thriller Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
Opinion
The Skinny's Final Oscar Predictions
Who will win, who should win and who should have been nominated? Read more »| 22 Feb 2019