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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NewsEdinburgh Film Festival reveals 2025 opening film
The 2025 edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will kick off with Sorry, Baby, the offbeat comedy-drama from director Eva Victor Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
OpinionThe sins of streamers and the lost treasures of DVDs
As DVDs turn 30 this year, we lament their scarceness in 2025’s hostile streaming environment and the rich possibilities they held Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
InterviewsKarim Aïnouz on Motel Destino
Motel Destino is a steamy neo-noir in which a young man hides out at a roadside motel, only to find more danger when he gets romantically entangled with the woman who manages the establishment with her volatile husband. Director Karim Aïnouz tells us more Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
New ReleasesMotel Destino
Steamy Brazilian noir Motel Destino is at its best when exploring its characters' carnal desires, but gets tripped up by its loose plotting that can feel anticlimactic Read more »| 05 May 2025 -
New ReleasesRiefenstahl
Andres Veiel's collage digging into the life and legacy of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is a dense burrowing into the psyche of one of cinema’s most fractious figures Read more »| 05 May 2025 -
New ReleasesThe Surfer
Low on gloom, high on doom, paradise is lost in this hauntingly bright Ozploitation psychological thriller starring Nicolas Cage Read more »| 05 May 2025
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Film EventsScottish Film Events: May 2025
May's cinema highlights include three great film festivals (Alchemy, Falastine and Folk Film Gathering) plus GFT's 51st birthday and the Cameo showing some David Lynch love Read more »| 29 Apr 2025 -
FestivalsFalastin Film Festival returns for 2025
Falastin Film Festival, the new and urgent Palestinian film festival in Scotland, returns for its second edition with an expanded programme. We look at how the event goes beyond passive film watching to foster a space of learning, solidarity and action Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
FestivalsSpring Breakers: Five Great Scottish Film Festivals
There's a glut of great film festivals happening in Scotland this spring, covering a myriad of subjects and forms. We look forward to five of them Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
InterviewsCorin Sworn on new film On Weaving
As part of their residency at Alchemy Film and Arts, artists Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn have made On Weaving, a film considering the legacies of textile artists Bernat and Margaret Klein through the lens of their modernist home. Sworn tells us more Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
New ReleasesApril
After Beginning, Déa Kulumbegashvili returns with a profoundly affecting, wrenching abortion drama Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
New ReleasesCloud
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud is a bracing thriller of internet-era malaise Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
InterviewsLeonardo Van Dijl on Julie Keeps Quiet
Belgian drama Julie Keeps Quiet centres on a teen tennis prodigy who's trying to keep it together during an abuse scandal at her elite tennis academy. Director Leonardo Van Dijl explains his inspirations for the film and his hopes for its reception Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
InterviewsDéa Kulumbegashvili on abortion drama April
Georgian filmmaker Déa Kulumbegashvili talks to us about the making of her abortion drama April and the role of cinema in the face of repressive systems Read more »| 21 Apr 2025 -
InterviewsAlchemy 2025: Maxime Jean-Baptiste on Kouté vwa
Maxime Jean-Baptiste returns to Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival with Kouté vwa, a hybrid documentary concerned with familial grief, coming-of-age and the shadow of colonialism in French Guiana. He talks to us about blending fact and fiction Read more »| 15 Apr 2025