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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Film Events
Film Event Highlights – October 2012
The GFT turns queer with Glasgay!; it's Fright Night at Cameo's All Night Horror Madness; Club Noir brings classics to the Grosvenor and the Perth Playhouse; cinemas across Scotland get animated; and the Belmont is rocking to Led Zeppelin Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
Festivals
Theatre at The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2012
Eclectic and engaging theatre tackling a range of subjects can be found at The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2012. Workshops and events complement performances from a variety of different local theatre companies Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
Holy Motors
Holy Motors is the first Leos Carax feature since 1999's Pola X, and it sometimes feels as if every single idea, dream and nightmare that he has had in those... Read more »| 24 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
Looper
Rian Johnson’s third film is assuredly his best effort to date. The genre-bending director, having tackled film noir by way of adolescence (in Brick) a... Read more »| 24 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
Killing Them Softly
In adapting George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, writer/director Andrew Dominik updates the action to 2008 and lays on the political alle... Read more »| 21 Sep 2012 -
Opinion
The Movie Dos and Don'ts of Studentdom
John Hughes movies might have told you that you've already come of age, but uni is where you really find yourself. Below are some college movies that reveal the dos and don'ts to follow over then next four years Read more »| 17 Sep 2012
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New Releases
To Rome With Love
Woody Allen attempts to replicate some of the magic from last year’s delightful Midnight In Paris by returning to a fabled old European city and addres... Read more »| 14 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Return to Goth: Simon Oakes explains Hammer Studio's revival
Hammer Studio chief Simon Oakes talks to The Skinny about the British institution's resurrection Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
Keyhole
Guy Maddin’s latest is, loosely, a haunted Odyssey set in a decrepit, (meta)physically imposing mansion and populated by ghosts and gangsters. Its... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
The Sweeney
It’s The Sweeney, son… and it’s nowhere near as bad as you fink it is. Ray Winstone is Regan, snarling and punching his way through a miss... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
The Victim
When you've fought killer robots from the future, aliens with acid for blood and flesh-eating zombies, what do you do next? Veteran genre actor Michael Biehn... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Breathing
Roman Kugler (Schubert) is a 19-year old orphan locked up in a juvenile detention facility. As part of the requirements for his parole he is offered a job at... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Out of the Past: Guy Maddin on Keyhole
Guy Maddin's latest film, Keyhole, is a psycho-sexual riff on Homer's The Odyssey by way of film noir and haunted house movies. The Skinny spoke to this most unique of filmmakers Read more »| 04 Sep 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
The Aggression Scale
Didn't you sometimes wish when you watched Home Alone that Macaulay Culkin would get a little more psycho? Make the burglars really suffer? Make them bleed? ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Genre Hopper: Rian Johnson on Looper
Three movies under his belt and Rian Johnson is proving a tricky filmmaker to pin down. The Skinny caught up with the genre hopping director to get the lowdown on his latest film, Looper, which opens this year's Toronto International Film Festival Read more »| 03 Sep 2012