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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Dvd ReviewsNeon Bull
An intoxicating film about Brazilian rodeo workers that's pleasingly multi-layered and subversive in its portrayal of childhood, masculinity and gender roles Read more »| 10 Apr 2018 -
NewsDonald Glover is a spot on Lando Calrissian in latest Solo trailer
The latest trailer for the upcoming Han Solo prequel gives us the best glimpse yet of what to expect from the troubled Star Wars production Read more »| 09 Apr 2018 -
New Releases
A Quiet Place
John Krasinski mines some gut-wrenching tension out of A Quiet Place's ingenious premise in which a family has to stay silent to stay alive Read more »| 06 Apr 2018 -
Opinion2001: A Space Odyssey's predictions, 50 years on
Stanley Kubrick’s hallucinatory sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey was released 50 years ago, but its themes of human evolution and our obsession with technology are as fresh as ever Read more »| 06 Apr 2018 -
OpinionThe Penn isn’t Mightier: the dos and don'ts for actor-authors
Sean Penn isn’t the first actor to swap the limelight for prose and he won't be the last. We check out six other movie star scribes and see what lessons Penn might learn from them Read more »| 06 Apr 2018 -
News
Watch the trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
It's finally here! Take a first look at The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Terry Gilliam’s long awaited film based on Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote Read more »| 05 Apr 2018
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New Releases
Love, Simon
The teen movie gloss of Love, Simon is familiar, but this winning tale of a gay teen looking for love is so warm and witty you won't begrudge its mainstream story beats Read more »| 04 Apr 2018 -
New ReleasesLet the Sunshine In
Claire Denis joins forces with another icon of French cinema – Juliette Binoche – for a romantic comedy that's an empathetic, perceptive and moving exploration of 21st century love and sex Read more »| 04 Apr 2018 -
New Releases
Ghost 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 Releases
Beast
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 Releases
Custody
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 -
Film Events
The 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