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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InterviewsSoda_Jerk on TERROR NULLIUS
Australian renegade archivists Soda_Jerk bring TERROR NULLIUS, their coruscating critique of the Australian myth, to Glasgow Short Film Festival this month. Ahead of the screening, we ask the duo about sample culture and the controversy their film caused Read more »| 07 Mar 2019 -
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
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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 -
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