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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InterviewsFrançois 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 -
FestivalsLooking 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 -
OpinionWhat 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 -
FestivalsWere 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
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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 -
Festivals
Edinburgh Film Festival: The 2018 programme
Rob Brydon and Anna Paquin are among the stars heading to Edinburgh for the 72nd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, along with 121 new feature films from 48 countries across the globe Read more »| 23 May 2018 -
Festivals
Edinburgh Film Festival 2018: 10 films to see
Our film editor picks ten of the most interesting films to look out for at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (20 June - 1 July) Read more »| 23 May 2018 -
Festivals
Dogman
Matteo Garrone returns to the milieu of Gomorrah with the tense, brutal and tragic crime film Dogman Read more »| 22 May 2018 -
Festivals
Capernaum
Tearjerking drama from Lebanon centred on a knockout performance from 13-year-old Zain Al Rafeea Read more »| 22 May 2018 -
Festivals
Cannes 2018: The Best Films
Fewer stars and fresher filmmaking talent, this year’s Cannes was all about trying to break free of the past and moving towards a brighter future – but the festival is not there yet Read more »| 21 May 2018 -
New Releases
Zama
Argentinian maestro Lucrecia Martel returns with period film Zama in which she creates a vivid world that's both sensuous and unbearable Read more »| 21 May 2018 -
New Releases
Deadpool 2
Ryan Reynolds' sarcastic superhero return is an improvement on the original, but it's still nowhere near as subversive as it thinks it is Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Festivals
Under the Silver Lake
David Robert Mitchell pays homage to Chinatown, Inherent Vice and The Big Lebowski with Under the Silver Lake, but the resulting film following Andrew Garfield's stoner detective is a sprawling slog Read more »| 17 May 2018