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The latest screen adaptation of Agatha Christie’s iconic mystery Murder on the Orient Express mixes old-fashioned storytelling with a couple of ef... Read more »

“My relationship with my parents was great. I never felt like they wanted to kill me. They disguised that very well.”Although the above may sound... Read more »

Bar the occasional big screen outing for kids' brands like the Teen Titans and My Little Pony, Hollywood has largely given up on releasing 2D feature animati... Read more »

Forget Xavier Dolan; writer-director Philippe Lesage may be the most exciting filmmaker to emerge from Quebec in the last few years. But unlike the director ... Read more »

Take the captivating Spanish lead (Laia Costa) of the single-take German wonder Victoria, the breakout star of God’s Own Country (Josh O’Connor),... Read more »

A thoroughly absorbing though deeply upsetting drama, County Lines is a remarkable debut feature from New Zealand-born writer-director Henry Blake. Inspired ... Read more »

Unnerving, touching, gross, genuinely audacious; British debut feature Hoard can be labelled many things. What it’s unlikely to be called – even ... Read more »

It’s October 2017 and we're interviewing Stacy Martin, the French-English actor currently best known for her breakthrough role in Lars von Trier’... Read more »

“It feels great. I would love to have another one!” Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund is cheerfully telling The Skinny his answer to the... Read more »

It’s unusual enough that a decent portion of the American Pie cast of ‘teenagers’ can still be found in high-profile fare nearly 20 years o... Read more »

As with almost every film festival in 2020 since the start of March, Fokus: Films from Germany, presented via a partnership between the Goethe-Institut ... Read more »

Published in 2017, Lizzy Goodman’s Meet Me in the Bathroom earned acclaim as an oral history of the NYC rock and indie scene of 2001 to 2011, exploring... Read more »

After a metatextual excursion with Bergman Island, writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve takes a more conventional approach with her latest feature, One Fin... Read more »

Writer-director Eliza Hittman made a splash on the festival circuit in 2013 with It Felt Like Love, an intimate portrait of a 14-year-old girl’s rush i... Read more »

Most of the time when The Skinny interviews filmmakers in person, particularly in the context of a film festival, it’s in a swanky conference room or r... Read more »

The recently departed Japanese director Seijun Suzuki has had a resurgence of late in the world of British home distribution. Though a couple of his more fam... Read more »

Panos Cosmatos doesn’t make films that are easy to define. This may seem a bold statement concerning a filmmaker who currently has only two features to... Read more »

Arriving eight years after previous film Poetry, Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s Burning left last year’s Cannes without any competition pr... Read more »

With Nick Broomfield’s documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, an in-depth look at the relationship between Leonard Cohen and muse Marianne ... Read more »

An annual celebration of Japanese animation that takes place at Glasgow Film Theatre and Edinburgh’s Filmhouse, the Scotland Loves Anime festival reach... Read more »

Some filmmakers have been very productive during the COVID era. Ben Wheatley (In the Earth) and Doug Liman (Locked Down), to name just two, have directed and... Read more »

As with basically every UK arts festival in the first five months of 2021, the eighth edition of IberoDocs – Scotland’s main showcase for documen... Read more »

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 »

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 »

“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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »