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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Opinion
Tommy Wiseau: Hipster Irony Created a Monster
The “world's worst filmmaker may censor Sydney Underground Film Festival” reads a headline in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, and it’s all your fault Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Interviews
Michael Barbieri: from Little Men to Spider-Man
From a Sundance indie to the Spider-Man reboot, it's been an eventful six months for emerging actor Michael Barbieri. We speak to the 14-year-old about keepi... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Opinion
What to Watch this Week (12-19 Sep)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Taika Waititi's joyous Hunt for the Wilderpeople and ... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
New Releases
One More Time With Feeling
Nick Cave has always felt untouchable, like some otherworldly entity you can never really get close to. In One More Time With Feeling, for once he feels... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Festivals
I, Daniel Blake to close Take One Action Festival
This year’s Take One Action closes with the Palme d’Or winning film by the festival’s long time patron, Ken Loach Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
New Releases
I, Daniel Blake
A typically powerful polemic from Loach that speaks directly to the audience's heart Read more »| 12 Sep 2016
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Students
A Student's Guide to Cinephilia
Don't fool yourself into thinking you'll have time to watch the whole 15 hours of Berlin Alexanderplatz after you graduate. Now is the time to get properly l... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Opinion
The key films of Brian De Palma
New documentary De Palma, from Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, lets New Hollywood survivor Brian De Palma talk through the ups and downs of his career. Ahead... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Film Events
Best Film Screenings in the North (9-16 Sep)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including a tribute to Antonia Bird at HOME, Manchester and Kathryn Bigelow's fi... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
News
Trailer for Ben Wheatley's Free Fire released
Bullets and blood fly in the first trailer for Ben Wheatley's star-studded crime movie Free Fire Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
News
Watch the trailer for Ben Affleck’s Live by Night
Following the much maligned Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck is back behind the camera for the fourth time with gangster picture Live by Night... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
New Releases
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Taika Waititi delivers a delightful coming-of-age comedy-adventure Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Art
HOME announce new art, film & theatre season
The eclectic new season from HOME includes a Rachel Maclean showcase, an adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass and a Neville Smith retrospective Read more »| 08 Sep 2016 -
New Releases
Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen and his family go native in this smart drama about unorthodox parenting Read more »| 08 Sep 2016 -
Opinion
In praise of Pedro Almodóvar's early, funny ones
Pedro Almodóvar has another arthouse hit on his hands in the form of sincere drama Julieta, but we wonder if his best work was back in his puckish youth Read more »| 07 Sep 2016