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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OpinionBest debut feature films of 2016 so far
Brady Corbet’s behind-the-camera debut, The Childhood of a Leader, arrives in cinemas this week and it’s one of the year’s most impressive ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2016 -
InterviewsA look inside the new documentary on Gary Numan
Gary Numan is the subject of Steve Read and Rob Alexander's new documentary Gary Numan: Android in La La Land. Read tells us how he got under the electronic ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2016 -
OpinionWhat to Watch this Week (15-22 Aug)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Brady Corbet's extraordinary directorial debut, Andrz... Read more »| 15 Aug 2016 -
Film Events
Best film screenings in the North (12-19 Aug)
The best film events happening in the North this week, including the annual POUTFest at HOME and Wim Wender's The American Friend at Hyde Park Picture House ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2016 -
Festivals
Take One Action announces 2016 programme
Take One Action film festival returns to explore key themes facing the world today, including women’s empowerment, refugee integration, fighting austerity and global warming Read more »| 11 Aug 2016 -
Opinion
What to Watch after Stranger Things
By now, you’ve probably exhausted the eight exquisite episodes of Stranger Things. Hungry for more? Here are some films and TV shows that might sate yo... Read more »| 11 Aug 2016
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Opinion
What to Watch this Week (8-15 Aug)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest film from Todd Solondz, 80s-set coming-of-... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
Interviews
Brady Corbet on The Childhood of a Leader
Brady Corbet has come a long way from 2004's Thunderbirds reboot. Since that inauspicious start he's chosen his acting roles wisely and with The Childhood of... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
New Releases
The Shallows
Jaume Collet-Serra's shark thriller starring Blake Lively offers some unsettling scenes, but most of the groundwork was done by Jaws four decades ago Dark, ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
New Releases
Pete's Dragon
A charming new spin on Disney's Pete's Dragon Disney’s ongoing spate of live-action remakes has once again upped the ante with Ain't Them Bodies Saint... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Interviews
Todd Solondz on his controversial career
For over two decades, Todd Solondz has wryly explored the lives of middle-class suburbanites trapped by their own melancholy and anxieties. We speak to him a... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
New ReleasesThe Wave
Hollywood-style disaster picture made in Norway Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Film Events
Best film screenings in the North (5-12 Aug)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including HOME's Soundtrack season and FACT's rare screening of Jacques Rivette'... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
New Releases
Suicide Squad
Dullest. Heroes. Ever Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Sing Street
Once director John Carney hits it out of the park again with his winning indie musical formula, this time applying it to an 80s coming-of-age story John Car... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016