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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NewsWatch the first trailer for Scottish thriller Calibre
Matt Palmer’s Highland-set thriller starring Jack Lowden and Martin McCann gets its first trailer Read more »| 08 Jun 2018 -
New Releases
Hereditary
Ari Aster's occult tale centred on a family in mourning is artfully visualised but let down by its farcical conclusion [contains spoilers] Read more »| 07 Jun 2018 -
New ReleasesThe Happy Prince
In his directorial debut, Rupert Everett creates a poignant portrait of the turbulent last few years of Oscar Wilde’s life Read more »| 07 Jun 2018 -
New ReleasesJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom attempts to rethink this 25 year old franchise, but forgets what made Spielberg's original so special Read more »| 06 Jun 2018 -
Festivals
Mark Cousins on The Eyes of Orson Welles
Mark Cousins' latest film explores the life and work of Orson Welles through the huge archive of drawings the Citizen Kane director made across his life. Cousins tells us how studying these sketches brought him closer to his filmmaking hero Read more »| 06 Jun 2018 -
News
Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake looks chilling
The first teaser for Call Me By Your Name director's remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria looks promising. "Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up" Read more »| 04 Jun 2018
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News
Watch the trailer for Steve McQueen's blistering crime movie Widows
The first trailer for Steve McQueen’s crime movie Widows looks to promise a blistering thriller filled with crime, passion and corruption Read more »| 04 Jun 2018 -
Film Events
The best film events in Scotland in June
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from Edinburgh International Film Festival to a must-attend Jane Campion season at GFT Read more »| 01 Jun 2018 -
Interviews
François Ozon on sexy, twisty thriller L’Amant Double
French auteur François Ozon is back on provocative form with L'Amant Double, a feverish sex thriller that puts Fifty Shades of Grey in the shade Read more »| 31 May 2018 -
Festivals
Looking back at the absurd, gonzo brilliance of Alex Winter’s Freaked
Ahead of its screening at cult movie festival Weird Weekend, we look back at 1993 comedy Freaked with its co-writer and co-director Alex Winter bka Bill S Preston Esq Read more »| 31 May 2018 -
Opinion
What to expect from Danny Boyle's James Bond
With the news that Danny Boyle is on board for Bond 25, we ask if the Trainspotting director should close Daniel Craig's time in the franchise with a kiss kiss bang bang? Read more »| 30 May 2018 -
New Releases
L’Amant Double
François Ozon's sex thriller L’Amant Double is neither as sexy nor smart as it thinks it is Read more »| 29 May 2018 -
New Releases
My Friend Dahmer
The troubled home and school life of a teenage Jeffrey Dahmer is explored in this creepy coming-of-age biopic that will get under your skin Read more »| 29 May 2018 -
Festivals
Were the 1980s a golden age for female filmmaking?
A shimmering highlight of this year's EIFF is its American Woman retrospective celebrating female filmmakers of the 1980s. Ahead of the festival, we talk to Smithereens director Susan Seidelman, one of the pioneering female filmmakers of this era Read more »| 28 May 2018 -
OpinionHow Revenge subverts the rape-revenge thriller
Coralie Fargeat plays with the familiar tropes of the rape-revenge film in Revenge, and it's a refreshing look at the genre through a female gaze Read more »| 23 May 2018