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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InterviewsNicolas Winding Refn: “I have great pleasure in fantasising”
In Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn channelled his inner hero through star Ryan Gosling. For his new feature, The Neon Demon, a silky horror set within the LA fas... Read more »| 28 Jun 2016 -
FestivalsKevin Smith on fatherhood & Johnny Depp
Kevin Smith was the undoubted king of this year's Edinburgh Film Festival, and the highlight of his visit was an epic In Person chat in which he preached to the crowd on subjects including Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, and Bruce Willis being a dick Read more »| 27 Jun 2016 -
Dvd ReviewsOverlord
Blending archive footage of WWII and new material, Stuart Cooper's Overlord from 1987 is a war movie that's achingly real Read more »| 27 Jun 2016 -
New ReleasesQueen of Earth
Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston star in Alex Ross Perry’s stylish psychological horror Queen of Earth Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston&nb... Read more »| 27 Jun 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
That Cold Day in the Park
This early Robert Altman film from 1969 points ahead to the direction his style would take in the following decade Read more »| 27 Jun 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Here Comes Mr Jordan
Charming body-swap comedy Here Comes Mr Jordan gets the Criterion Collection treatment Body-swap comedies are more or less a subgenre in themselves nowadays... Read more »| 27 Jun 2016
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Festivals
EIFF 2016: Little Sister
An ex-Goth nun helps rehabilitate her war-scarred brother in this spiky family comedy set at the dawn of Barack Obama’s presidency Read more »| 25 Jun 2016 -
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Edinburgh Film Festival names 2016 prizewinners
Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced the winners of its annual awards, including its Michael Powell Award, McLaren Award and best international film Read more »| 24 Jun 2016 -
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Clancy Brown on Highlander, Connery & Starship Troopers
80s fantasy romp Highlander made a triumphant return to Scotland with a 30th anniversary gala screening at the 70th Edinburgh Film Festival. Guest of honour ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2016 -
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Five Animated Years of Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson
Tomorrow, Edinburgh International Film Festival celebrates the careers of animation directing duo Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson. We take a look at what makes them so special, and hear news of their future plans Read more »| 23 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
EIFF 2016: Kids in Love
The only thing these kids, played by Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky, Jamie Blackley and Cara Delevingne, seem to be in love with is their own sense of entitlement Read more »| 22 Jun 2016 -
FestivalsEIFF 2016: The White King
Agyness Deyn and Jonathan Pryce star in this dystopian fantasy that, in our current political climate, should feel more urgent Read more »| 22 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Yoga Hosers
Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp star in Kevin Smith's good-natured meta-comedy mess Yoga Hosers Relying on a host of sub-Austin Powers gags – in... Read more »| 21 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Brakes & The Library Suicides
Two very different world premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival: improvised breakup comedy Brakes and The Library Suicides, a bloody revenge thri... Read more »| 19 Jun 2016 -
Festivals
EIFF 2016: The Love Witch & Baba Yaga
EIFF are screening Anna Biller's modern take on the 70s sexploitation genre while in the festival's retrospective strand you'll find Corrado Farina's Baba Yaba, an example of the real thing Read more »| 18 Jun 2016