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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New ReleasesGhost Stories
Andy Nyman and The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson expand their hit play Ghost Stories into a spooky anthology film Read more »| 04 Apr 2018 -
Festivals
Director John Landis heads to Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn
The legendary filmmaker heads to the annual horror festival to introduce two of his films, and the 25th anniversary edition of Dead by Dawn also includes a taste-along screening of Evil Dead II and premieres of brand new horror films from around the globe Read more »| 03 Apr 2018 -
Festivals
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2018: Preview
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival returns to Hawick with a lively programme that includes the new collaboration between Ben Rivers and Ben Russell and the reportedly final film from the great Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer Read more »| 03 Apr 2018 -
News
Watch the trailer for How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Elle Fanning rocks out and Nicole Kidman channels Toyah Willcox in the first trailer for John Cameron Mitchell’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties Read more »| 03 Apr 2018 -
New ReleasesBeast
The boundary between man and animal is explored in Michael Pearce's compelling, sensual and pleasingly off-kilter Beast Read more »| 03 Apr 2018 -
New ReleasesCustody
An astonishingly tense drama from first time director Xavier Legrand following an acrimonious custody battle with a young boy caught in the middle between his dysfunctional parents Read more »| 03 Apr 2018
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Film EventsThe best film events in Scotland in April
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from a Wes Anderson season at GFT to a primer for Spielberg's Ready Player One at Cameo Read more »| 30 Mar 2018 -
New Releases
Ready Player One
Spielberg shakes off his pop cinema cobwebs with a sugar rush spectacle that combines state-of-the-art CGI with the Jaws and ET director's comforting blend of breakneck action, heartwarming characters and goofy humour Read more »| 29 Mar 2018 -
New ReleasesThe Islands and the Whales
Beautiful documentary posing tough but never patronising questions about the Faroe Islands and their inhabitants' traditions Read more »| 28 Mar 2018 -
Opinion
Steven Spielberg's most underrated films
Before you delve into the delights of Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One, here are six of the director's lesser known, under-appreciated works to prep you for his latest blockbuster Read more »| 28 Mar 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
The Passenger
One of his most sumptuously shot pictures, Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger has been crying out for a Blu-Ray release for as long as the medium’s been in existence Read more »| 27 Mar 2018 -
Opinion
Shoot 'Em Up: Time’s Up for Guns in Hollywood
In the wake of the Parkland mass shooting, is it time for Hollywood to rethink its relationship to guns? Read more »| 27 Mar 2018 -
News
A peek behind the scenes of Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs
This new mini-documentary gives an insight into the huge effort that went into Wes Anderson’s wonderful new stop-motion animation Read more »| 26 Mar 2018 -
Music
Bill Murray is coming to serenade Edinburgh
The much-loved actor will be joined by German cellist Jan Vogler for their project in which Murray sings and reads American classics accompanied by a classical trio of musicians Read more »| 26 Mar 2018 -
News
Deadpool 2's new trailer introduces his X-Force team
In the playful new Deadpool 2 trailer we see our sarcastic anti-hero messing with Professor X’s wheelchair and forming his own team of mutants, X-Force Read more »| 22 Mar 2018