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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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 -
FestivalsAfrica 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 ReleasesMandy
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
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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 -
OpinionHow good an actor is Nicolas Cage?
We try to solve the Zen koan that is Nicolas Cage Read more »| 04 Oct 2018 -
Opinion
Triumph of the Mel: How Hollywood welcomed back Mel Gibson
Having snagged the job of directing a high-profile remake of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, we ask: has Mel Gibson returned from the wilderness? Read more »| 04 Oct 2018 -
Film EventsThe Best Film Events in Scotland in October
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from ace festivals Africa in Motion and Scotland Loves Anime, to a close-to-Halloween screening of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari with live score by S!nk Read more »| 04 Oct 2018 -
New Releases
Venom
Tom Hardy can't save this toothless, incoherent Spider-Man spin-off Read more »| 03 Oct 2018 -
Music
Thom Yorke shares new track from Suspiria
The Radiohead frontman releases the second track from his original soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino's upcoming remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic Read more »| 03 Oct 2018 -
News
Nic Cage unleashed as Glasgow’s Cage-a-Rama returns
Cage-a-Rama, “Europe’s longest-running Nicolas Cage Film Festival”, returns to Glasgow next year with two more days of Cage-related antics Read more »| 01 Oct 2018 -
Interviews
A Home from Home: Filmhouse at 40
With Edinburgh's venerable Filmhouse turning 40 this month, we invited its staff and regulars to recall their favourite memories of the capital's much-cherished arthouse cinema Read more »| 01 Oct 2018