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 ReleasesMake Me Up
With Make Me Up, pop ironist Rachel Maclean invites us into another darkly hilarious world in which the candy-coloured computer generated images contrast sharply with the brutal satire within Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Opinion
Big Night Out: Everyman Cinema opens in Glasgow
The independent boutique cinema chain opens its first Scottish branch in Glasgow’s Princes Square this month Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
InterviewsGomorrah director Matteo Garrone on Dogman
Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone returns with Dogman, the story of a friendly dog-groomer who's drawn into violence by the local coke-head Read more »| 12 Oct 2018 -
New ReleasesTouch Me Not
Golden Bear winner Touch Me Not has good intentions, but what this chilly study of intimacy is lacking is, ironically, intimacy Read more »| 12 Oct 2018 -
Music
John Carpenter on his newfound life as a rockstar
John Carpenter is having a late-in-life career swerve, taking a break from cinema while he dips his toe in the music business. He tells us how life as a rockstar is both joyous and terrifying Read more »| 11 Oct 2018 -
NewsScottish zombie musical Anna and the Apocalypse gets official trailer
The comedy-horror mashup set at Christmas hits UK cinemas in November, and gets its music-filled official trailer Read more »| 10 Oct 2018
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MusicBelle and Sebastian to score Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird debut film
The Scottish group will compose the music for Simon Bird’s Days of the Bagnold Summer Read more »| 10 Oct 2018 -
Festivals
Africa in Motion Film Festival: 2018 Preview
Africa in Motion is back for its 13th edition and it's in a rebellious frame of mind with a diverse programme of African cinema from 28 countries taking over Glasgow and Edinburgh Read more »| 09 Oct 2018 -
Festivals
Scotland Loves Anime 2018: Preview
Scotland Loves Anime returns for its ninth outing. Expect tales of love, death and future dystopia, not to mention the most inventive time-travel story in recent memory Read more »| 09 Oct 2018 -
Interviews
Rachel Maclean on Make Me Up
Like razor-wire wrapped in candy floss, Rachel Maclean returns with Make Me Up, which imagines St. Peter's Seminary as a candy-coloured phantasia filled with women forced to compete against one another. She tells us more about this strange world Read more »| 09 Oct 2018 -
New Releases
Mandy
Nicolas Cage delivers his most unhinged performance yet in Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy, and the results are highly pleasurable but drenched in artifice Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
Opinion
The Best Films at London Film Festival 2018
This year's London Film Festival offers up a typically huge line-up of cinematic delights. Here are the great films you can still grab tickets for, ahead of the festival kicking off this week Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
Interviews
Mandy director Panos Cosmatos on Nicolas Cage and MacGruber
Led by Nicolas Cage, Panos Cosmatos' phantasmagoric Mandy is a "volcanic eruption of emotions." We speak to the writer-director about his metal and prog-influenced revenge tale, working with the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, and... the SNL movie MacGruber Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
New Releases
First Man
Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong in this technically accomplished biopic that ultimately fails to get off the ground Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
Opinion
How good an actor is Nicolas Cage?
We try to solve the Zen koan that is Nicolas Cage Read more »| 04 Oct 2018