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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OpinionThe Best Films at London Film Festival 2018
This year's London Film Festival offers up a typically huge line-up of cinematic delights. Here are the great films you can still grab tickets for, ahead of the festival kicking off this week Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
Interviews
Mandy director Panos Cosmatos on Nicolas Cage and MacGruber
Led by Nicolas Cage, Panos Cosmatos' phantasmagoric Mandy is a "volcanic eruption of emotions." We speak to the writer-director about his metal and prog-influenced revenge tale, working with the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, and... the SNL movie MacGruber Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
New ReleasesFirst Man
Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong in this technically accomplished biopic that ultimately fails to get off the ground Read more »| 08 Oct 2018 -
Opinion
How good an actor is Nicolas Cage?
We try to solve the Zen koan that is Nicolas Cage Read more »| 04 Oct 2018 -
OpinionTriumph of the Mel: How Hollywood welcomed back Mel Gibson
Having snagged the job of directing a high-profile remake of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, we ask: has Mel Gibson returned from the wilderness? Read more »| 04 Oct 2018 -
Film Events
The Best Film Events in Scotland in October
The ten big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from ace festivals Africa in Motion and Scotland Loves Anime, to a close-to-Halloween screening of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari with live score by S!nk Read more »| 04 Oct 2018
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New ReleasesVenom
Tom Hardy can't save this toothless, incoherent Spider-Man spin-off Read more »| 03 Oct 2018 -
Music
Thom Yorke shares new track from Suspiria
The Radiohead frontman releases the second track from his original soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino's upcoming remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic Read more »| 03 Oct 2018 -
NewsNic Cage unleashed as Glasgow’s Cage-a-Rama returns
Cage-a-Rama, “Europe’s longest-running Nicolas Cage Film Festival”, returns to Glasgow next year with two more days of Cage-related antics Read more »| 01 Oct 2018 -
Interviews
A Home from Home: Filmhouse at 40
With Edinburgh's venerable Filmhouse turning 40 this month, we invited its staff and regulars to recall their favourite memories of the capital's much-cherished arthouse cinema Read more »| 01 Oct 2018 -
Film Events
Park Chan-wook is GFT’s latest CineMaster
The great Korean director of Oldboy and The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook, is the latest to be championed in GFT’s ongoing season celebrating master filmmakers Read more »| 01 Oct 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
Paris Nous Appartient
Jacques Rivette's totemic work of the French New Wave comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 28 Sep 2018 -
Dvd Reviews
The Ciambra
A dazzlingly kinetic work from Italian-American filmmaker Jonas Carpignano which follows a young Roma boy trying to provide for his family after his brother is sent to prison Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
News
Watch the new trailer for Transformers spin-off Bumblebee
We take a look at the first full-length trailer for the Transformers spin-off Bumblebee, where an Iron Giant bee takes on a secret mission to Earth Read more »| 24 Sep 2018 -
News
Captain Marvel trailer: Brie Larson flies into action
We get the first proper glimpse of Captain Marvel, the first female-led superhero film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Brie Larson as the eponymous superhuman Read more »| 18 Sep 2018