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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IntersectionsRom-Coms As A Dating Guide for a Young Gay Man
A writer explores how the leading ladies of rom-coms became his guide for dating as a young gay man Read more »| 14 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsJoe Cornish on The Kid Who Would Be King
The Attack The Block director on his all-new family film, his experiences with Hollywood, and the 'hereditary privilege' at the heart of fantasy storytelling Read more »| 14 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesBerlinale 2019: Knives and Skin
You've never seen a coming-of-age film quite like Jennifer Reeder's wild and imaginative teen movie Knives and Skin Read more »| 13 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesMid90s
Jonah Hill becomes the latest Hollywood star to move behind the camera with Mid90s; a coming of age film centred on a 13-year-old boy who falls in with an LA skate gang, it's an impressive and stylish directorial debut Read more »| 13 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsSimon Amstell on his new film Benjamin
In his tender new comedy Benjamin, Simon Amstell fictionalises the most anxious parts of himself to explore his own burgeoning filmmaking career, love life and ideas of masculine identity Read more »| 11 Feb 2019 -
OpinionBohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite and LGBTQ+ portrayals
Two films with queer protagonists – Bohemian Rhapsody and The Favourite – are in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars and Bafta awards. Only one, however, treats their character's sexuality with both the casualness and respect they deserve Read more »| 08 Feb 2019
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Dvd ReviewsDave Made a Maze
Whimsical indie adventure about an artist who finds himself and his friends lost in a labyrinthian artwork of his own creation Read more »| 08 Feb 2019 -
Dvd ReviewsRosa Luxemburg
Margarethe von Trotta's celebrated biopic of socialist writer and activist Rosa Luxemburg comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 08 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival announce 2019 programme
The Green Fog, Guy Maddin’s riff on Vertigo, and TERROR NULLIUS, Soda_Jerk’s remix of Australian film history, are among the highlights of Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 12th edition Read more »| 07 Feb 2019 -
Festivals
Ten Best Films to Seek Out at Berlinale 2019
With over 400 films in its programme, Berlin International Film Festival is, as ever, sure to be full of surprises and discoveries. Ahead of the festival kicking off tonight, here are the ten films that have initially caught our eye Read more »| 07 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsJay Baruchel on How To Train Your Dragon & Scotland
After ten years of playing dragon-loving viking Hiccup, Jay Baruchel says goodbye to the character with How To Train Your Dragon: Hidden World. We chat to the Canadian actor about his love of Scotland and how voice acting made him a better performer Read more »| 06 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesIf Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s heartbreaking novel about a young black couple separated by a false arrest, and the Moonlight director beautifully captures the romantic, yearning, angry, incisive tones of Baldwin’s voice Read more »| 06 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival’s Industry Focus programme announced
Amma Asante, Alice Lowe, Sacha Polak, Vicky Knight, Hope Dickson Leach and Claire Pijman are among the guests sharing insights and taking part in discussions during GFF19's three-day industry event Read more »| 05 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsBarry Jenkins on If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins follows Moonlight with an adaptation of James Baldwin's heartbreaking If Beale Street Could Talk. As with his Oscar-winner, the results are bittersweet and beautiful Read more »| 04 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesCan You Ever Forgive Me?
Melissa McCarthy shines in this whip-smart tale of real-life writer Lee Israel, and how she found her voice as a literary forger Read more »| 02 Feb 2019