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 ReleasesAngry Inuk
Documentary looking at seal hunting from the point of view of an Inuit community who see it as a way of life Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
New ReleasesGraduation
Great Romanian new wave director Cristian Mungiu returns with another beautifully structured film about a family mired in a suspenseful web of compromises Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Things To Do
FriendsFest heads to Manchester and Sheffield
After everyone went nuts for last year's sell-out tour last year, Comedy Central UK's FriendsFest returns this summer in partnership with The Luna Cinema, this time rolling out to new UK locations including Manchester and Sheffield. Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
CineskinnyWay of the Gun: Cinema's most underrated shootouts
Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, we pay tribute to some of cinemas great, but under-appreciated, gun fights. Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Illegitimate
A black comedy-infused drama from Romania taking on two tough subjects: abortion and incest Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Dvd Reviews
A Man for All Seasons
The 1966 Oscar-winner gets the Blu-ray treatment from Masters of Cinema Read more »| 20 Feb 2017
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FestivalsIn Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
News
Terrence Malick's Song to Song: Watch the trailer
Watch the first trailer for Terrence Malick's Austin-set music scene drama featuring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and many, many more Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
In the Radiant City
Rachel Lambert's debut about a dysfunctional family in the Deep South is flawed but promising Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Paradise
Veteran Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsy stretches plausibility with an experimental take on the Holocaust drama Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Salt and Fire
Werner Herzog reunites with Michael Shannon for a fitfully amusing but largely stilted eco-thriller Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Louise by the Shore
Veteran French animator Jean-François Laguionie's latest centres on a septuagenarian who finds herself abandoned in an off-season holiday resort Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Soul on a String
A beguiling combination of Western and Buddhist parable, Zhang Yang’s latest is a beautiful and thought-provoking work which suffers from being overlong and narratively unfocused Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
New Releases
Logan
The third standalone film for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is violent and visceral – and the best from the X-Men franchise to date Read more »| 18 Feb 2017 -
Festivals
Paul Verhoeven on sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert
Paul Verhoeven has been shocking and thrilling audiences for 46 years. He's back after a ten year absence with Elle, which might be his most daring work yet. We sit down with the Dutch auteur to talk sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert Read more »| 17 Feb 2017