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
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints might ultimately be a triumph of craft over content, but when the craft is this impressive it seems churlish to complain. Davi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
New Releases
About Time
Richard Curtis rounds off his trust fund trilogy with weddings (not four, thankfully) and love (not actually, mercifully) in this return to the vanilla, uppe... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Plein Soleil
Alain Delon was a movie star with uncommon good looks and charisma, but only a few directors really knew how to fully exploit his particular gifts. Ren&eacut... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Film Events
Scotland Film Event Highlights – September 2013
The Grosvenor Cinema in Glasgow is screening four films showcasing some of mainstream cult star Bill Murray's finest performances. The series starts with 80s... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – September 2013
This month sees a celebration of sex and celluloid, with some kinky double-bills from Certificate X Cult Film and a 24-hour marathon of that sleaziest of sub-genres, film noir Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
New Releases
Upstream Colour
Dense, maddening, oblique but oh so beautiful, Shane Carruth’s long-awaited follow-up to the similarly bizarre Primer will certainly leave his audience... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013
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Dvd Reviews
Time Bandits
Terry Gilliam's anarchic children’s fantasy has a lavish new release from Arrow, with a fully restored picture and audio track, and it's never looked b... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
New Releases
Pain & Gain
Michael Bay has never given the impression of being a filmmaker particularly interested in irony. His bombastic oeuvre features all the self-awareness of you... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
New Releases
Lovelace
A very strong performance from Amanda Seyfried anchors this biopic of the most notorious period of Linda Boreman’s life, that of her troubled marriage ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
House of Usher
With a clang from a leaden door knocker, the first of Roger Corman’s eight Edgar Allan Poe treatments creaks open unpromisingly, wreathed in sickly mis... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
New Releases
Elysium
South Africa-set District 9 had a clear apartheid allegory built into its hyper-violent sci-fi stylings, and writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
New Releases
2 Guns
Fresh from chilling audiences to the core with austere true-life drama The Deep, director Baltasar Kormákur turns up the heat and lays on the froth in... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
New Releases
What Maisie Knew
An adaption of Henry James’s 19th-century novel of the same name, What Maisie Knew has undergone modernising alterations but retains the same pitiable ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
“I see myself as an outsider” – Brian De Palma on Passion
Legendary New Hollywood firebrand Brian De Palma talks to The Skinny about his new erotic thriller Passion, where he discusses being an outsider in Hollywood and bemoans the lack of political filmmaking in the new generation of filmmakers Read more »| 09 Aug 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Passion
The last De Palma film to not receive a theatrical outing in the UK was 2002’s feverish noir Femme Fatale. With Passion making its debut on t... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013