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      <title>Christmas at the movies</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/76-christmas-at-the-movies</link>
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        <![CDATA[So, here it is, Merry Christmas...everybody  having fun? Whether you&rsquo;re struggling to muster Christmas cheer or  the mistletoe is already hanging over the door, Scotland&rsquo;s smaller  cinemas are doing us proud this year when it comes to screening festive  films for the whole family. Here a few of the best ones worth searching  out...ho, ho and indeed, ho...
While its showing of A Mup...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-12-11T21:28:06+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>Shining light on the Illuminations Season </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/72-shining-light-on-the-illuminations-season</link>
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        <![CDATA[A look at an exciting new season of  documentary films making their way to Edinburgh&rsquo;s Filmhouse this December.
It&rsquo;s fair to say that the last few  years have seen the documentary film make something of a comeback. It  all started around 2002 when a rotund Everyman called Michael Moore,  fresh from hassling the US authorities every week on the small screen  in cult show TV Nation, ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-12-04T21:49:10+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 28 November &#8211; 4 December </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/70-the-week-in-film-28-november-4-december</link>
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        <![CDATA[A brief round-up of cinematic happenings  around Scotland this coming week: 
At Edinburgh Filmhouse  there&rsquo;s a tribute to Japanese director Jun    Ichiwaka in a screening of Tony Takitani. The 2004 film is about    an unemotional loner who works as a commercial artist because he prefers    the literal to the fantastic or abstract, losing control of his emotions    when he meets and marri...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-12-01T15:14:07+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 21 &#8211; 27 November </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/69-the-week-in-film-21-27-november</link>
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        <![CDATA[This week&rsquo;s biggie is Ridley Scott&rsquo;s  Body of Lies, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Roger Ferris  (DiCaprio) uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to  be operating out of Jordan, leading to a cultural and moral clash between  Ferris and Jordanian Intelligence.
At the smaller cinemas around the country  there are a few gems to watch out for:
Edinburgh ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-26T14:42:56+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 14 &#8211; 20 November </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/64-the-week-in-film-14-20-november</link>
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        <![CDATA[With Bond still leading the pack at the  box office his competitors are avoiding the multiplex for the moment.  Probably the biggest release of the week (besides Max Payne) is the new Kevin Smith film  Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks,  two friends decide to solve cash-low problems my making an adult movie  together.


 Film Trailers by Filmtrailer.com
&nb...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-14T13:01:08+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 31 October &#8211; 7 November </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/63-the-week-in-film-31-october-7-november</link>
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        <![CDATA[Bond is most definitely back this week,  still minus Q and Miss Moneypenny and full of grit and grimaces. With  the trademark humour gone this is basically Bourne...again.
Edinburgh Filmhouse 
Halloween hits the Filmhouse on Friday  with a double bill of late night screenings coinciding with their Africa  in Motion festival. Highway to the Grave considers the symbiotic relationship  between f...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-02T19:00:55+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 24 - 30 October </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/61-the-week-in-film-24-30-october</link>
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        <![CDATA[This week sees Saw V cut a swathe out  of cinema takings in the UK as the latest film in the franchise is unleashed.  Having not seen any of the previous films I&rsquo;m unable to pass comment  on this one, though the suspicion is that people die. Horribly.
Ricky Gervais stars in Ghost Town, a  story about a man who dies for seven minutes during an operation and  finds he can see dead people w...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-28T11:28:30+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 17 - 23 October </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/60-the-week-in-film-17-23-october</link>
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        <![CDATA[Glasgow Film Theatre
Film of the moment Gomorrah &ndash; the Italian  story of various nefarious goings on by the mafia, or Camorra &ndash; comes  to the GFT this week, fresh from the scandal it caused in its home country.  Less controversial is the new Coen brothers movie, Burn After Reading,  starring George Clooney and Frances McDormand (Fargo) in a story about  blackmail going wrong, CIA i...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-22T10:51:32+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 10 &#8211; 16 October</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/59-the-week-in-film-10-16-october</link>
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        <![CDATA[A quiet week in blockbuster land sees Kiefer Sutherland&rsquo;s slightly suspect attempt at 24-meets-gory-horror, Mirrors, opening alongside City of Ember, a fantasy adventure filmed in and around the UK. EdinburghOn a smaller scale is Time and Winds at the Filmhouse, a Turkish picture which looks at the lives of three young men as they struggle against the precarious political system of the re...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-09T17:48:56+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 3 - 9 October</title>
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        <![CDATA[A couple of big hitters arrive at cinemas  around the country this week. The new version of Brideshead Revisted,  based on Evelyn Waugh&rsquo;s classic novel, is first up. Slightly shorter  than the 11-hour 1980s TV series, the movie stars Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder who reflects on his involvement with the Flyte family  prior to the Second World War. Emma Thompson co-stars.
Everyone&rsquo;...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-02T19:15:42+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 26 September &#8211; 2 October </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/57-the-week-in-film-26-september-2-october</link>
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        <![CDATA[Instead of the usual blockbusters  taking centre stage at the multiplexes, we&rsquo;ve handpicked a few of  the smaller films showing this coming week that deserve your attention&hellip;
Glasgow Film Theatre
The GFT screens two films currently on limited  release in the UK: Linha de Passe and I&rsquo;ve Loved You So Long. Linhe  de Passe is the latest film from Motorcycle Diaries director Wal...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-29T18:33:22+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film: 22 &#8211; 28 August</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/37-the-week-in-film-22-28-august</link>
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        <![CDATA[Hellboy&rsquo;s back this week in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Guillermo Del Toro&rsquo;s latest is a superhero movie with a twist, which you&rsquo;ll know if you saw the original a few years back. This time a mythical world decides to invade Earth and it&rsquo;s up to HB to save us.Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_O0xYCy1cgThe latest TV adaptation to hit the big screen is Get Smart, a...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-25T17:54:01+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>August Film News</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Filmhouse
Edinburgh&rsquo;s Filmhouse is going retro this August with a fantastic  chance to see many of those films you know you really should have done  but never quite got around to. Starting with a retrospective to mark  the centenary of the birth of director David Lean, fifteen classics  such as BBC2 regular The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor  Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia mingle w...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-11T14:26:41+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film: 18 - 24 July 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/33-the-week-in-film-18-24-july-2008</link>
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        <![CDATA[WALL-E hits cinemas this week after huge success in America and sustained hype over here. And, for once, the hype is right. Set 700 years in the future, WALL-E is the last robot on Earth, his mission to ready the planet, one tin can at a time, for the return of the human race from its self-imposed exile. Humour, romance and stunning CGI combine to make this a modern animated classic &ndash; if ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-18T13:20:22+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film: 11 - 17 July</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/23-the-week-in-film-11-17-july</link>
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        <![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a quieter week for the humble blockbuster, with Mamma Mia!
the biggest film hitting town. The adaptation of the ABBA musical,
about a bride-to-be who tries to find her real father, stars Pierce
Brosnan and Meryl Streep.Brendan Fraser mugs for the camera in Journey to the Centre of the Earth,
the first full-length, live action feature shot in digital 3D. What
plot there revolves ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-10T13:55:51+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>EIFF 2008 round-up, the overview</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/22-eiff-2008-roundup-the-overview</link>
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        <![CDATA[Well, the end credits have finally rolled on the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Over 130 films have been and gone while directors, actors, producers, writers and maybe even a gaffer and best boy or two from around the globe have jetted back home.For those of us who spent time trying to sift through the programme to find some gems, it&rsquo;s been exhausting but fun. Man wasn&rsquo;...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-08T13:31:11+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film: 4 - 10 July</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/21-the-week-in-film-4-10-july</link>
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        <![CDATA[Currently plastered on the sides of buses everywhere, Hancock opens this week and tells of hard-living superhero John Hancock (Will Smith) whose public image is at rock bottom, leading to a drinking binge and a trail of destruction around his hometown. It&rsquo;s now up to Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) to try and change the public perception of the once great man.
Trailer: Hancock






An...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-03T17:53:47+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>EIFF 2008 round-up, part the first</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/19-eiff-2008-roundup-part-the-first</link>
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        <![CDATA[With the opening night film now screened to a paying audience, the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is now officially underway. A bit of glamour on Wednesday at Cineworld in the shape of Keira and Sienna (and a few Skinny folk somewhere in the background), there to promote The Edge of Love, came after three days of previews for the eager press pass-wielding journos.The Edge of ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-06-19T17:27:31+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film: 13-19 June</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/16-the-week-in-film-1319-june</link>
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        <![CDATA[Probably the biggest hitter at the box office this week is The Incredible Hulk, the much-hyped sequel to 2003&rsquo;s Hulk. This time around Ed Norton dons those shorts for some of the runtime while Liv Tyler and Tim Roth lend support. Watch out for a cameo from Robert Downey Jnr as Iron Man&rsquo;s Tony Stark. Nine years after his success with The Sixth Sense, M Night Shyamalan returns with Th...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-06-16T13:13:22+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film: 6 - 12 June 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/15-the-week-in-film-6-12-june-2008</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Still on general release this week and continuing to make their mark at the box office are Indiana Jones and the Ludicrously Long Title and Sex and the City.&nbsp; Joining Indy and Carrie is the long-delayed, Ben Affleck directed, Gone Baby Gone. This tale of a young girl&rsquo;s disappearance from her family home and the subsequent investigation was held back from UK release due to the Madelin...]]>
      </description>
      <pubDate>2008-06-05T13:10:36+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>A Bloody Good Weekend</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/9-a-bloody-good-weekend</link>
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        <![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve spent this past weekend in the company of Nazi zombies, crazed killers and some mutants from another dimension. While that may sound like a normal Saturday down the Grassmarket, it was in fact Dead by Dawn, Scotland&rsquo;s biggest horror film festival at Edinburgh&rsquo;s Filmhouse.&nbsp;
With [REC] and The Orphanage still fresh in my mind I thought it was only right to continue on...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-05-02T17:09:22+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>Yet Another 48 Hours</title>
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        <![CDATA[Could you make a film in just 48 hours?
&nbsp;
Put all memories of Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte&rsquo;s 1982 actioner far behind you. Come May 16, The 48 Hour Film Project arrives in Edinburgh, offering amateur filmmakers from around the
country the chance to go global and compete for the title of Best 48
Hour Film of 2008.
Now in its eighth year, this event sees the full filmmaking process...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-04-25T19:08:01+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>Putting the accent on success</title>
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        <![CDATA[With two new Spanish films about to scare and delight UK audiences, Jonathan Melville wonders if every decent foreign film really needs to be remade by our American cousins...
&nbsp;The history of English language remakes of foreign language films is a
long and chequered one. For every Fistful of Dollars (the surprisingly
successful 1964 reimagining of Akira Kurosawa&rsquo;s 1961 feature, Yo...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-04-21T11:30:23+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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