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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Festivals
CineDaily – 21 Feb: Wild Tales, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, today's reviews and more
When Dancing at a Cinema Screening Makes Total Sense We at The Skinny are usually sticklers for hush during film screenings. We’re that guy who’... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Burroughs: The Movie
While this examination of renowned American oddball William Burroughs presents viewers with something approaching a linear narrative, its fragmented tone cal... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Tender
The volunteers and staff of the Port Kembla Community Centre, located in a economically depressed Australian steel town on the stunning New South Wales coast... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Phoenix
Phoenix opens like a horror movie. A disfigured woman, her face swaddled in bloody bandages, is crossing the German border following the fall of the Third Re... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: The Boy and the World
Alê Abreu's The Boy and the World begins with a blank white screen and revels in the infinite freedom before it like a kid let loose with crayons. Craf... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
Videos
Daniel Wolfe and cast discuss directorial debut Catch Me Daddy
Catch Me Daddy is the first feature film from music video whizz Daniel Wolfe (he co-wrote the film with his brother, Matthew, who also provides the score). B... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015
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New Releases
Blackhat
Cyber terrorism thriller Blackhat sees director Michael Mann continuing to explore themes found in his earlier works like Heat and Thief, but with a firm foo... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Mommy
Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy, could be viewed as a companion piece to his debut I Killed My Mother, with a comparison between the two films highl... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: The Town That Dreaded Sundown
A winking remake-cum-sequel of a 1976 slasher, itself based on a real case from 30 years previously, sounds like an exercise in meta-reflexive backslappery t... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the Run
Back in 1985, The Clash frontman Joe Strummer didn't have the luxury of being dead and revered. In fact he was regarded by many as an embarrassing anachronis... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
Festivals
CineDaily – 20 Feb: It Follows, Stop Making Sense, today's reviews and more
Day three of Glasgow Film Festival and it’s starting to feel like we’re in full swing. CCA’s Saramago, the GFF’s official post-cinema... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Uzumasa Limelight
Uzumasa Limelight is a heartfelt tribute to the samurai-saturated chanbara films of Japanese cinema, particularly the largely unsung, intensely physical pros... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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CineDaily – 19 Feb: Appropriate Behaviour, today's reviews and more
Glasgow Film Festival kicked off in grand style last night with Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young. It was a brilliantly judged opener. Baumbach c... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
Interviews
Saluting Hollywood's Maverick: Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the Nashville director
Altman director Ron Mann and Kathryn Reed Altman discuss the "Indestructible" filmmaking force of nature, Robert Altman Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Spring in a Small Town
First released in 1948, Fei Mu’s masterful Spring in a Small Town was dismissed by the Communist government and only resurfaced in the 1980s. In the af... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015