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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New Releases
Boyhood
In Boyhood, Richard Linklater follows the same actors over 12 years, as they age with their characters. Ellar Coltrane plays Mason Jr, a six-year-old bo... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Life May Be
Life May Be is a five part cinematic correspondence between Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins and Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari, made over the last year, du... Read more »| 03 Jul 2014 -
Film Events
Scotland Film Event Highlights – July 2014
This month in film there's a tribute to Chaplin, the return of the Found Footage Festival and exploitation classic From Dusk till Dawn is back on the big screen Read more »| 02 Jul 2014 -
Interviews
The Way of the Dragons: Dean DeBlois on HTTYD2
Four years on from its release, How to Train Your Dragon feels like a classic, able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the best of Pixar. We speak to its director about the sequel, which premiered alongside the art-house crowd at this year's Cannes Read more »| 02 Jul 2014 -
New Releases
The Night Is Young (Mauvais sang)
If Leos Carax's 2012 film Holy Motors was a demented lament for 'the death of cinema', his 1986 sophomore feature The Night Is Young (known as Mauvais s... Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – July 2014
Plenty of opportunity to sample cinema in the outdoors this month, with Picnic Cinema kicking off and Screenfields back after its Wimbledon break Read more »| 01 Jul 2014
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Dvd Reviews
13 Sins
Hollywood’s cannibalistic cycle of consumption and regurgitation continues unabated, as yet another super Asian horror is chewed up, sucked of its crea... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Honeymoon
Brits Harry Treadaway and Game of Throne's Rose Leslie are fresh-faced American newlyweds Paul and Bea in Leigh Janiak’s entertaining if problemat... Read more »| 27 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Beloved Sisters (Die geliebten Schwestern)
Billed on its posters as ‘the secret story of Schiller’s passion’, Beloved Sisters presents a speculative account of the relationship betwe... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Au revoir l’été
Japanese writer-director Kôji Fukada's excellent previous feature, screened internationally under the name Hospitalité, had a hint of Luis Bu&nt... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: My Red Shoes (Mes souliers rouges)
Splicing old home movies with new footage shot at her parents’ house in Nantes, My Red Shoes sees Iranian-born filmmaker Sara Rastegar examine her own ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: The Infinite Man
When anal-retentive Dean (McConville) brings his girlfriend Lana (Marshall) to the desert motel where they once enjoyed a perfect anniversary, his desire to ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Garnet’s Gold
In Ed Perkin’s documentary Garnet’s Gold, a peculiar man with an improbable name, Garnet Frost, sets out on the quest of his life, a quixotic jou... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: The Paternal House
The opening scene of Iranian drama The Paternal House plays like a home invasion thriller, as a weeping young woman flees from room to room, barricading door... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Home (Hemma)
Coffee is the beverage of choice in Maximilian Hult’s sweet but never treacly directorial debut, and with a name like Home, it’s not difficult to... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014