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 ReleasesThe End
Joshua Oppenheimer, the great director of documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, returns with a curious post-apocalyptic musical. It is not a toe-tapper Read more »| 04 Mar 2025 -
InterviewsImperfect Harmony: Jim Hosking on Ebony & Ivory
With his knack for combining the bizarre with the poignant, Jim Hosking has proven himself a one-off in British cinema. We chat to him about his latest cult film in the making, Ebony & Ivory, ahead of its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 03 Mar 2025 -
BooksXuanlin Tham on new book Revolutionary Desires
We chat with Edinburgh-based author and film curator Xuanlin Tham about their debut book, an incisive and intricate exploration of the politics of the sex scene Read more »| 03 Mar 2025 -
New ReleasesGFF 2025: Kill the Jockey
Argentinian director Luis Ortega returns with the surreal and beautiful Kill the Jockey Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
InterviewsGints Zilbalodis on Oscar-winning animation Flow
The major underdog at this year's Oscars was Flow, a low-budget, dialogue-free animation from Latvia about a band of animals surviving the end of the world. We speak to director Gints Zilbalodis about his beguiling film Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
Film EventsScottish Film Events: March 2025
This March, expect many film festivals, unmissable retrospectives on two hugely influential filmmakers and a whole load of Q&A screenings for new work Read more »| 28 Feb 2025
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InterviewsJames McArdle on Hamlet, baddies & new film Four Mothers
James McArdle is a familiar face from stage and television, but he's yet to lead a movie. That all changes with Four Mothers, in which he plays an Irish novelist caring for his elderly mother Read more »| 27 Feb 2025 -
New ReleasesThe Last Showgirl
Jamie Lee Curtis grooving to Total Eclipse of the Heart is one of the few highlights in this disappointing study of a Las Vegas showgirl approaching the end of her career Read more »| 24 Feb 2025 -
New ReleasesThe Monkey
Theo James plays twin brothers in the possession of a cursed toy monkey in this gory horror comedy that's rarely scary nor funny Read more »| 21 Feb 2025 -
NewsGlasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2025 programme
Glasgow Short Film Festival is back with a programme of international work including films from the Gaza Film Unit and a spotlight on Indonesian filmmaker Riar Rizaldi, as well as short film programmes exploring sex, grief and the multiverse Read more »| 19 Feb 2025 -
OpinionHead Canon: Being John Malkovich in the social media age
Twenty-five years after its UK release, Being John Malkovich offers a prescient look at celebrity, parasocial relationships, and the horror of being inside your own head Read more »| 18 Feb 2025 -
InterviewsVera Drew on becoming The People’s Joker
Following the flop of Folie à Deux, you might think the world domination of comic book movies is coming to an end – but Vera Drew, director of supervillain satire The People's Joker, has united hundreds of artists in the crossover event of the century Read more »| 17 Feb 2025 -
New ReleasesI'm Still Here
Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres earns herself an Oscar nomination for her intricate performance in this true-life drama from Walter Salles Read more »| 17 Feb 2025 -
New ReleasesThe People's Joker
Vera Drew mines DC Comics' IP to tell a wildly inventive and freewheeling superhero origin story satire about a plucky trans kid from Smallville trying to make it big on Gotham City's comedy scene Read more »| 17 Feb 2025 -
InterviewsLaura Carreira introduces On Falling
On Falling takes us inside the empty life of a picker at an Amazon-like warehouse. Edinburgh-based writer-director Laura Carreira tells us why she wanted to explore the physical, financial and spiritual toll of working within the gig economy Read more »| 13 Feb 2025