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Finding Edinburgh's STYLE Icons with St James Quarter
A STYLE Icon can be a person, place, district, building, home… We asked some of The Skinny’s team to share their local style inspirations, and y... Read more »| Updated 3 months ago -
Film
The Skinny's Films of 2021
20. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder) "Director Darius Marder has crafted a profound story about deafness, intimately exploring the nuances of hearing loss a... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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The Skinny's Best TV Shows of 2022
1. Severance Among the offerings exclusive to Apple’s streaming platform this year, Dan Erickson’s Severance surely sits atop the pile. An intri... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Festivals
The Skinny's Peripheral Visions
Our Peripheral Visions season of free events at our new home in Codebase offer a chance to interact, explore and engage with the arts as the Edinburgh Festiv... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
Tv Radio
The Skinny's TV shows of 2019
10. Unbelievable In the seemingly oversaturated category of ‘true crime’ media, Netflix have managed to create a timely miniseries that admira... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Film
The Skinny's Films of 2024
10. Love Lies Bleeding Dir. Rose Glass Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass’s sophomore feature, is a sapphic grindhouse version of Pumping Iro... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
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Films of 2018: Mid-year report
Phantom Thread Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson There are blatant shades of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, but the mo... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
Filmhouse’s new House Guest is… The Skinny!
We at The Skinny love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative, the ongoing season where the Edinburgh cinema invite some of the most interesting artists wor... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
The Skinny's Films of 2023
1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Dir. Laura Poitras This year – both cinematically and politically – has been characterised by cr... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Community projects to support this Christmas
Ubuntu Women ShelterUbuntu Women Shelter offers shelter and support to women facing destitution in the face of the UK's unconscionable immigration system, an... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Film
Films of 2019: Mid-year report
20. Wild Rose (Dir. Tom Harper) 19. Too Late to Die Young (Dir. Dominga Sotomayor) 18. John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (Dir. Chad Stahelski) 17. Amazing Grac... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Festivals
The best of Glasgow Film Festival 2019: Our Picks
Glasgow Film Festival has come to a close for another year, and the weather gods proved kinder than in 2018, when the Beast from the East put the kibosh on m... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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The Skinny's Christmas Gift Guide 2020
Riso Club I am obsessed with pretty printed paper things (I too have a fierce eye on the East End Press garlands on Polly's list further down the page) an... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Books
The Skinny's Books of 2020
We don’t need another article telling us how bad 2020 was: instead we’re focussing on a small beacon of good – the year's best books. To en... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Art
The Skinny 150: Our favourite covers
December 2009, Issue 51“I have lots of favourites so I'm going to go for a personal throwback. This was a cover story for me, before I was the editor, ... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Art
The Skinny Christmas Gift Guide 2019
Stack Obviously, I love magazines, so being sent a different independent magazine every month is like heaven to me. But a Stack subscription would also ap... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Film
The Skinny's Films of 2024: Our Writers' Top 10s
As much as I enjoy The Skinny's annual film of the year list, created by aggregating our film writers' individual top ten ballots to find our collective favo... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2019: Our Writers' Top 10s
Thomas Atkinson 1. Transit (Christian Petzold) 2. Atlantics (Mati Diop) 3. Homecoming (Beyoncé) 4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) 5. High Life (Clair... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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The Skinny Christmas Gift Guide 2021
Subscribe to The Skinny! The perfect Christmas gift for you and literally everyone you know. We offer subscriptions on a three monthly or annual basis. Sign ... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
Film
Film writers' individual top tens of the year 2018
You've probably read The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018 list, but our Film team is a broad church. Phantom Thread, The Skinny's Film of 2018, was ubiquitous o... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2021: Our Writers' Top 10s
In our 2021 film of the Year poll, the Skinny’s Film Team collectively voted Céline Sciamma’s beguiling fairytale Petite Maman top of... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of 2022: Our Writers' Top 10s
Collectively, our Film team voted Aftersun the film of the year. You can read a rundown of our full top ten here. If you’re looking for more idiosyncra... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Film
The Skinny's Films of 2019
30. Zombi Child Dir. Bertrand Bonello After the frustrations of Bertrand Bonello’s blithe attitude towards pretty compelling ideas in 2016&rsq... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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The Skinny's Films of the 2010s
30. Blue Valentine (2010) Dir. Derek Cianfrance Back in 2010, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams finally shook off any lingering connections with their tee... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Film
Films of 2017: The 25 Best Films of the Year
25. Paddington 2 Dir. Paul King Once again Paul King marries Michael Bond’s genteel charms with his own hugely imaginative visual style to create a... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Film
Jamie Thraves & Aidan Gillen on Treacle Jr.
It’s half an hour before Jamie Thraves’ third feature film, Treacle Jr., is to make its Scottish debut at the 2011 Glasgow Film Festival and I st... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Film
Easier with Practice
Davy Mitchell (Geraghty) is an aspiring writer embarking, with sleazy brother Sean (O’Neill) in tow, on a self-financed “book tour”... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Film
Matt Lloyd: Short Film Impresario
The festival looks to have expanded from last year, with even more films in competition – are you finding it easier to get good quality shorts as the f... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
Film
The Next Three Days
John and Lara Brennan (Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks) are a white collar couple who enjoy argumentative flirting and the odd quickie in the back seat of ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Film
Reel Talk: Paul or Pauline
Perhaps my favourite moment in all of cinema is the one in Annie Hall where Woody Allen’s Alvy Singer takes on a pretentious blow-hard who’s loud... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago