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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News
Armando Iannucci working on David Copperfield film
It's the Dickensian character, not the magician, but we're still very excited... Read more »| 10 May 2018 -
News
AL Kennedy and Irvine Welsh to be Filmhouse House Guests
These two great Scottish authors will be the next House Guests to guest curate films at the Edinburgh arthouse cinema Read more »| 09 May 2018 -
News
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter confirm Bill & Ted 3 is officially happening
The lovable rock-loving airheads are once again heading back to the past in what we hope will be a totally excellent adventure and not at all a bogus journey Read more »| 09 May 2018 -
New Releases
Redoubtable
This sprightly Jean-Luc Godard biopic from the Oscar-winning director of The Artist is cute but not all that insightful Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
Festivals
EIFF launch their Young & the Wild programme
If you’re between 15-25, The Young & the Wild programme at EIFF give you access to filmmaker masterclasses, hands-on workshops, careers advice sessions and discounted tickets to films at EIFF Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
Interviews
Stacy Martin on Redoubtable, Wiazemsky and Godard
The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius returns with Redoubtable, a pastiche portrait of the marriage of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Wiazemsky. We speak to Stacy Martin about playing the late Wiazemsky and who should play her Nymphomaniac director, Lars von Trier Read more »| 08 May 2018
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Festivals
Learn your queer cinema history with Queer Classics
Teen movie Love, Simon has been claimed as a landmark moment for LGBTQ+ cinema by critics, but celebrating this tepid take on queer identity serves to overlook the great LGBTQ+ films of the past, some of which screen at new festival Queer Classics Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
New Releases
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Despite a talented cast and an imaginative director, this messy adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short story of aliens visiting Croydon during the height of punk falls short of its potential by a wide mark Read more »| 07 May 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
Irma Vep
Maggie Cheung and Jean-Pierre Léaud star in this witty and free-wheeling film about filmmaking Read more »| 06 May 2018 -
Opinion
How The Cabinet of Dr Caligari changed cinema
The horror movie was born in 1920 with The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and it's resurrected this month as the film screens with a new live score at Hidden Door in Edinburgh. Ahead of the screening, we look back at the legacy of Robert Wiene’s film Read more »| 04 May 2018 -
New Releases
Lean on Pete
Rising talent Charlie Plummer shines in this moving tale of a boy and his horse's cross country adventure, from talented British director Andrew Haigh Read more »| 04 May 2018 -
Festivals
Sheffield Doc/Fest announce 2018 programme
The UK's biggest celebration of non-fiction filmmaking returns, with a lineup that includes vital new documentaries, virtual reality installations, guest speakers and a recreation of the terrifying docudrama Threads Read more »| 04 May 2018 -
Festivals
EIFF and RSNO team up for Jaws in concert
Duuun dun duuun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun BOM BOM dun dun dun dun dun dun doo dedoo doo dedoo dede doo dede doo dededoo – now imagine that with a full orchestra, and you're halfway to EIFF's orchestral Jaws night Read more »| 03 May 2018 -
News
Dating app Bumble launch £100k female film fund
The dating app is offering five female filmmakers in the UK £20,000 each to make a short film Read more »| 02 May 2018 -
Film Events
The best film events in Scotland in May 2018
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival to a celebration of 80s movies at Cameo Read more »| 02 May 2018