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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FestivalsA look at Scotland's thriving small film festivals scene
In Scotland, barely a week goes by without a film festival bringing interesting cinema to our shores. We speak to some of the people who help deliver these festivals to discover how they're creating film spaces that are both ambitious and inclusive Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
Dvd ReviewsI Vitelloni
The sophomore film from Federico Fellini comes to Blu-ray, and it's a must-have for fans of this master filmmaker Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
InterviewsFilmhouse and GFT on indie cinema in 2018
New technology and the increasing sophistication of home cinema systems are putting a squeeze on indie cinemas across the UK, but Scotland's two great art houses, GFT and Filmhouse, appear to be weathering the storm Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
New Releases
Skate Kitchen
Crystal Moselle’s skateboarding drama featuring real-life skaters from New York is ostensibly a hangout movie, but also quietly revolutionary in how it naturalistically depicts female friendship Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
New ReleasesAmerican Animals
Bart Layton follows up his 2011 documentary The Imposter with American Animals, and this narrative film based on real-life events is as slippery as his previous feature Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
Music
Thom Yorke shares track from Suspiria soundtrack
The Radiohead frontman’s new score for Luca Guadagnino’s remake of the horror classic is released in October Read more »| 04 Sep 2018
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Film Events
The Best Film Events in Scotland this September
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from Take One Action! and Glasgow Youth Film Festival to the various goings on of Scalarama Read more »| 04 Sep 2018 -
Interviews
Desiree Akhavan on The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Female sexuality and desire is at the centre of Desiree Akhavan's The Miseducation of Cameron Post. We speak to the Appropriate Behaviour director about her sharp and witty second feature Read more »| 04 Sep 2018 -
Interviews
Irvine Welsh on his Filmhouse House Guest season
Ahead of his House Guest season at Filmhouse, we pick the brains of Irvine Welsh to discover why he chose the six films he's screening at the Edinburgh cinema and how film has influenced his writing Read more »| 04 Sep 2018 -
Festivals
Take One Action: A look at doc Silvana
Roaring documentary Silvana follows one of Sweden’s most unapologetically outspoken musical acts, Silvana Imam, a lesbian hip-hop artist of Syrian and Lithuanian descent. We speak to the filmmakers ahead of its screening at Take One Action Read more »| 04 Sep 2018 -
New Releases
Crazy Rich Asians
This meet-the-parents rom-com is brimming over with charm although its portrait of wealth could be a tad more complex Read more »| 03 Sep 2018 -
Festivals
Preview: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018
We look ahead to this year's Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, which features the first major UK retrospective of filmmakers Shireen Seno and John Torres as well as new work from Sophia Al-Maria, Kevin Jerome Everson and Luke Fowler Read more »| 03 Sep 2018 -
Interviews
A guide to Scottish DIY film nights
How DIY film nights and community film clubs are enlivening Scotland’s film scene Read more »| 03 Sep 2018 -
New Releases
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Desiree Akhavan's witty and heartfelt coming-of-age drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a potent study in teenage alienation and anxiety Read more »| 03 Sep 2018 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Festival Calendar
Scotland's cultural calendar is overflowing with excellent film festivals. Below is just a taste of some of the smart, inventive and inclusive festivals that help make the Scottish film scene the most vibrant in the UK Read more »| 03 Sep 2018