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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NewsRami Malek looks the part in Bohemian Rhapsody trailer
Rami Malek IS Sacha Baron Cohen AS Freddie Mercury in a film about Queen Read more »| 15 May 2018 -
FestivalsAlchemy Film & Moving Image Festival: 2018 Report
From a celebration of Super8 to a tribute to Jan Švankmajer, we look back at the highlights from this year's Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival Read more »| 15 May 2018 -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Film Festival: The Scottish talent
Two new films from Mark Cousins and the debut feature from Rachel Maclean are among the highlights of local talent featured in this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 15 May 2018 -
New ReleaseseXistenZ
David Cronenberg's self-reflexive dive into virtual reality gaming makes its debut on Blu-ray Read more »| 14 May 2018 -
FestivalsCold War
Ida director Paweł Pawlikowski delivers a stylish love story set during the early years of the Cold War Read more »| 11 May 2018 -
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
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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 -
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