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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InterviewsPaul Dano on his directorial debut Wildlife
Long one of American indie cinema's most interesting actors, Paul Dano breaks out as a director with his compelling debut feature Wildlife, a deeply compassionate study of a fractured family at the dawn of the 60s Read more »| 27 Oct 2018 -
InterviewsBreakthrough anime director Mamoru Hosoda on Mirai
Mamoru Hosoda's animations beautifully explore childhood and family. His latest, Mirai, is also a game changer in being the first anime to premiere at Cannes. He tells us about being inspired by his kids and his dislike of Disney's live-action remakes Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
FestivalsScottish Queer International Film Festival announces 2018 programme
The essential SQIFF returns with a programme featuring queer East Asian and Arab cinema, an asexual reading of the Wizard of Oz and a chance to experience queer virtual reality Read more »| 25 Oct 2018 -
New Releases
Destroyer
Nicole Kidman will receive plaudits for her transformation into a grizzled LA cop, but the real star of Destroyer is director Karyn Kusama's muscular, pulsating direction Read more »| 25 Oct 2018 -
New Releases
Peterloo
Mike Leigh's retelling of the Peterloo Massacre is a powerful, pertinent piece of work Read more »| 22 Oct 2018 -
New ReleasesLFF 2018: The Favourite
The director of Dogtooth and The Lobster delivers his most accessible and entertaining film yet, with Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman outstanding in this wild period comedy Read more »| 22 Oct 2018
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News
Glasgow's CCA reopens with #WeirdHorror season
After an extended closure, the vital multi-arts venue is finally up and running again, and for starters it’s got four nights of #WeirdHorror planned to mark the Halloween season Read more »| 19 Oct 2018 -
New Releases
Wild Rose
Jessie Buckley gives a knockout performance as a gallus ex-con from Glasgow with ambitions of being a country singer in Nashville in this delightful crowd-pleaser with rugged edges Read more »| 19 Oct 2018 -
New Releases
LFF 2018: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Ben Wheatley’s partly-improvised family drama Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is funny and frenzied, but some of the huge cast get lost in the melee Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
New Releases
Make 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 -
Interviews
Gomorrah 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 Releases
Touch 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 -
News
Scottish 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