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Things To DoCommunity 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 almost 5 years ago -
FilmFilms 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 over 6 years ago -
FestivalsThe 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 over 6 years ago -
Things To DoThe 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 almost 5 years ago -
BooksThe 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 almost 5 years ago -
ArtThe 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 over 7 years ago -
ArtThe 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 almost 6 years ago -
FilmThe 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 11 months ago -
FilmThe 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 almost 6 years ago -
Things To DoThe 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 almost 4 years ago -
FilmFilm 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 almost 7 years ago -
FilmThe 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 almost 4 years ago -
FilmThe 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 almost 3 years ago -
FilmThe 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 almost 6 years ago -
FilmThe 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 almost 6 years ago -
FilmFilms 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 almost 8 years ago -
FilmJamie 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 over 14 years ago -
FilmEasier 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 almost 15 years ago -
FilmMatt 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 over 14 years ago -
FilmThe 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 almost 15 years ago -
FilmReel 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 about 15 years ago -
FilmAttack the Block
Attack the Block opens on a scene as prosaic as any social realist film, with a gang of hoodies (the kind of kids that give Daily Mail readers palpitations) ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmAaron Katz: Mumblecore Comes In From The Cold
Last year mumblecore went mainstream. This ethereal, unfortunately named genre is no longer ghettoised to hip indie film festivals SXSW and Sundance. For the... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
FilmCinéma Rosé: Kim Longinotto
Some documentarians like to get in front of the camera, where they become the heroic protagonist, hunting down crooked CEOs or corrupt politicians. Others ar... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
FilmGFF 2012: Reclaiming Mumblecore
Critics love to give films labels – I apologise on behalf of my reductive brethren – but more often than not these categorisations can be on-the-... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
FilmSuperstar in Waiting: Paul Kelly on Lawrence of Belgravia
Ever since D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark documentary Don't Look Back, where the sardonic backstage antics of a young Bob Dylan proved as entertaining... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
FilmYouth in Revolt – Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012
Last night saw the launch of Glasgow Film Festival’s 2012 programme – it’s bigger, bolder and busier than ever. But before you take a highl... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
FilmReel Talk: To Tweet, Or Not To Tweet
The headline movie for June is Prometheus. I’ve been cool on the prospect of the Alien prequel, primarily because the last time Ridley Scott made a gre... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
FilmReel Talk: Comic Marvels
Two marvellous comedies are released in April: Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre (6 Apr) and Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress (27 Apr). Film... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
FilmDirector Xavier Gens on The Divide
The title of Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens’ latest film, The Divide, describes exactly what the film does to its audiences. Before its UK premiere a... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago