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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Dvd Reviews
Boy Meets Girl
At long last, Leos Carax’s debut film, Boy Meets Girl, comes to Blu-ray. Originally premiered in International Critic’s Week in Cannes 1984, when... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
The Rocket
The Rocket’s title refers to a traditional Lao festival featured in the film’s final act: a rambunctious celebration at which participants compet... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Hellion
Hellion is a low-key family drama that explores grief and responsibility. Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Hollis, a boozy single parent who&r... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Joe
With Joe, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche) returns to his roots, examining the grim reality of society’s underclass wi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: I Believe in Unicorns
A merging of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland might be read as a possible influence on I Believe in Unicorns, but this ver... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
Videos
Ti West on The Sacrament: Video interview
While in town for FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival, we grabbed a quick chat in a cafe with Ti West about his new film The Sacrament, a faux-documentary ho... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014
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Festivals
EIFF 2014: Castles in the Sky
It’s hard to represent the creative process of invention on screen without resorting to cliché. Gillies Mackinnon’s Castles in the Sky, ho... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
New Releases
Chef
Chef centres on Casper, a cook, once the darling of the LA food scene, who's stuck in a rut churning out uninspired nosh for his philistine restaurateur paym... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular. The first follows a man (Tsai’s go-to leading man... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Violet
Violet opens with a silent act of violence, the murder of a teenage boy in an empty shopping mall, wordlessly captured from multiple angles on CCTV. After wi... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Snowpiercer
Adapted from a French comic, directed by South Korean maverick Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), and featuring a stacked roster of American, Europ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Finding Vivian Maier
In 2007 John Maloof, while researching for a book on Chicago, happened upon a collection of 30,000 prints and negatives by one Vivian Maier. Googling her nam... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Cold in July
The exploitation revival of the last ten or so years has produced more duds than doozies, but Jim Mickle here delivers a real highlight of the sub-genre with... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Let Us Prey
This visually stylish low budget horror looks like it’ll be a real treat from the doom-leaden and aggressive opening, as a flock of crows and chilling ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Something, Anything
Something, Anything is a concise, fascinating exploration of American life, making pointed use of Southern cultural values for a more universal story of mala... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014