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Post-apocalyptic survival has fascinated writers for centuries, and filmmakers for as long as moving images have been around. The particular sub-genre known ... Read more »

In the World Cup Final, Portuguese striker Diamantino (Carloto Cotta), the greatest footballer on the planet, misses a last-gasp penalty and chaos ensues. Hi... Read more »

“Right now, I’m revolting against the conventions of movies,” said New York filmmaker Shirley Clarke when making her first feature, The Con... Read more »

A warped reflection and an almost-voyeuristic montage of attractive young women navigating New York’s busy streets give an appropriately unnerving feel... Read more »

The contemporary world is awash with a consistent torrent of video news. From terrestrial television broadcasts to YouTube and social media, from the MSM to ... Read more »

It may only be 46 seconds long but Louis Lumière’s 1895 short Workers Leaving the Factory, often referred to as the first ever motion picture, c... Read more »

Berwick-upon-Tweed’s border town status makes it a location for a festival that probes at the margins between different media: films, exhibitions, inst... Read more »

Jan Němec’s Diamonds of the Night opens, propulsively, in media res with two boys desperately running for their lives. An intimate handheld camera... Read more »

In 1972 there were two comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe. One you will have heard of, while the other is as important to comedy as anyone else in the UK &nda... Read more »

The lockdown continues, and we're all grasping for ways to stay connected with one another. This month's magazine highlights some of the things we've been ma... Read more »

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 »

After the Wedding Dir. Bart Freundlich A weepie in the semi-classic, Redford-esque tradition, After the Wedding features some of the best dramatic directio... Read more »

Find Out The Skinny's Top Ten Films of 2020 Eilidh Akilade 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma) 2. Rocks (Sarah Gavron) 3. Shirley (Josephi... Read more »

25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »

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 »

Thomas Atkinson 1. Transit (Christian Petzold) 2. Atlantics (Mati Diop) 3. Homecoming (Beyoncé) 4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) 5. High Life (Clair... Read more »

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 »

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 »

Over the past few years, Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn has become a familiar face to British cinemagoers, often playing variations on a particularly unhing... Read more »

The prospect of crafting a worthy successor to the phenomenal The Act of Killing is a daunting one, but with The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer has rise... Read more »

As self-aware as the name demands, Marvel's latest hero belies his size to be a hugely enjoyable addition to the studio's growing superhero universe. Helmed ... Read more »

Half a century ago, Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut sat down together for a week to discuss the former’s career in its entirety. The... Read more »

Kit Harington would seem to have been catapulted to star status by his lead heartthrob role in the wildly successful Game of Thrones. It’s not been qui... Read more »

Damon lays on his all-American charm as Mark Watney, a botanist left stranded on the surface of the red planet after he's hit by debris and presumed dead by ... Read more »

Over the course of Charlie Kaufman's cinematic career, he's been fascinated with the complexities of the human mind and the vehicles – whether they be ... Read more »

Inspired by critic Kent Jones' Hitchcock/Truffaut, we pay tribute to those great ouroboroi of cinema: films about film. Below are five of the best, from a do... Read more »

Three little dots. There's little in contemporary society as adept at inducing anxiety as the pulsating ellipsis that represents a friend composing a respons... Read more »

Isabelle Huppert stars as a philosophy professor going through a crisis in the new work from Eden director Mia Hansen-Løve  “I’m luc... Read more »

Absurdity is Jon Stewart's weapon of choice in his directorial debut, Rosewater. It recounts the ordeals of London-based Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari (Be... Read more »

Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's Catch Me Daddy opens to a creation myth recited with childlike naivety over images of a windswept, almost primeval landscape. Thou... Read more »