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FilmBlue Jean
It’s 1988, and bulletins report on Clause 28, which would see the prohibition of any “promotion” of homosexuality as an acceptable “p... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmNathan Silver on Between the Temples
At awards ceremonies, filmmakers’ acceptance speeches will often include a loving thank you to their parents. Should the electric dramedy Between the T... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
FilmNaoko Yamada on The Colors Within
With such successful, vivid dramas as A Silent Voice (2016) and Liz and the Blue Bird (2018), Naoko Yamada has become arguably the leading female director of... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmGFF 2025: Super Happy Forever
A non-linear love story that switches between a relationship's definitive end and its serendipitous beginnings, Kohei Igarashi's Super Happy Forever is gentl... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmKleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent
Considering we’re to talk about his political thriller that has many tense scenes involving characters on the phone, it’s funny that my conversat... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
FilmBi Gan on Resurrection
A century-spanning fantasy using largely disconnected vignettes to, in part, comment on cinema’s past and perhaps its future, Resurrection feels like t... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
FilmGuillermo del Toro on fantasy love story The Shape of Water
“I said it’s R-rated, it’s Sally Hawkins, she masturbates, and they fuck. If that’s alright, we’ll make the movie.”Mexica... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmThoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds sees the electrifying duo of Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy play Amanda and Lily, two upper-class teens and former childhood friends in subur... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FilmGhost Stories
Horror anthologies are tricky beasts. For every terrifying tale in a trilogy of terror, there’s often a dud or two to spoil the cumulative experience. ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
FestivalsBo Burnham on Eighth Grade, teens and the internet
Of all filmmakers to tackle the subject of the relationship of young people to the internet as it is now, Bo Burnham would be among the most qualified. After... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FilmThe Truth
Following his Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters, prolific Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda heads to France for both his first French- and Englis... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmAfter Love
In writer-director Aleem Khan’s debut feature, the great Joanna Scanlan is Mary/Fahima, a British Muslim convert residing in Dover with her husband Ahm... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
FilmBen Wheatley on pandemic-shot horror In the Earth
“We were the first people back and – whether it's true or not – we really felt like the eyes of production were on us across the board.&rdq... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
FilmGodzilla Minus One
With the franchise’s 70th anniversary imminent, Japanese studio Toho goes back to the beginning with their latest Godzilla film. Or rather, before the ... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
FilmI'm Still Here
After a decade away from directing features, Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles returns in a mode loosely similar to his most widely celebrated work, the Che ... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmHappyend
When the offspring of a famous director with a distinctive style scratches a directing itch themselves, it's easy to speculate what that debut film might be ... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
FilmLost Generation: Carla Simón on Romería
“If you need to heal something, you'd better go to a psychologist because it's cheaper than making a film,” Carla Simón says with a laugh,... Read more »| Updated 2 months ago -
Filmxcx and the City: Pete Ohs on Erupcja
Whether in supporting parts or front and centre, 2026 would seem to be the year of Charli xcx becoming a film star. Since January, audiences have had the cha... Read more »| Updated about 1 month ago -
FilmDaniele Rugo on new Gaza documentary Life Support
In early 2024, Italian filmmaker Daniele Rugo already knew that his next documentary would be about the sustained onslaught on Gaza by Israeli military &ndas... Read more »| Updated 2 days ago -
FilmBreakthrough anime director Mamoru Hosoda on Mirai
In conversation with Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda, he cites childhood and how young people change as a recurring theme that unites all of his origi... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
FestivalsLocarno Film Festival 2019: The Skinny's Highlights
Founded in 1946, Switzerland’s Locarno Festival is one of the world’s longest-running film festivals, known for its arthouse-favouring programmin... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
FilmJohn Waters on his new book, Pink Flamingos and his TV cameos
“I never wanted to do cult,” John Waters says in reference to his filmography in light of the question of whether genuine cult films are still po... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
FilmSimon Bird on directing Days of the Bagnold Summer
Best known for his leading roles in The Inbetweeners franchise and the still ongoing Friday Night Dinner, actor Simon Bird delivers a gentler comedic offerin... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
FilmI'm Your Man
Maria Schrader’s funny and touching I’m Your Man is a German romantic dramedy with light sci-fi touches that purposefully draws attention to its ... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
FilmFour Mothers
In 2008, Italian filmmaker Gianni Di Gregorio gave us Mid-August Lunch, a gentle comedy he directed, co-wrote and starred in, playing a middle-aged man livin... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
FilmLeonardo Van Dijl on Julie Keeps Quiet
A taut examination of power, abuse, repression, class dynamics and troubling things left unsaid, the debut feature of Belgian director Leonardo Van Dijl brin... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
FilmEIFF 2025: I Live Here Now
Comparing any surreal, genre-fluid movie to David Lynch's work is often a hack move in film criticism. That being said, the feature debut of writer-director ... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
FestivalsFrench Film Festival 2019: Five highlights
From some of the cream of the Cannes crop to restored classics and mainstream hits, the French Film Festival is a much-appreciated annual event for the UK&rs... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film20 Underrated Films from 2022
Ambulance Dir. Michael Bay Once derided as the exemplar of all that was coarse and dumb in American cinema, Michael Bay’s high-octane style now feels... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
FilmThe Skinny's Films of 2020
10. I’m Thinking of Ending Things Dir. Charlie Kaufman Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons star as a couple on the brink of a messy break-up in Charlie ... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago