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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OpinionIn praise of Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon says exactly what he’s thinking, and we love him for it. In a recent interview, he lays into Alexander Payne and Woody Allen. It's pleasingly at odds with the blandness of most A-list actors Read more »| 20 Sep 2016 -
OpinionWhat to Watch this Week (19-26 Sep)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Little Men, The Magnificent Seven and Joe Swanberg's ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2016 -
Film Events
Best Film Screenings in the North (16-22 Sep)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including early Pedro Almodóvar films at HOME, Manchester and anime classic Akira at FACT, Liverpool Read more »| 16 Sep 2016 -
Music
Radiohead share Present Tense video by PT Anderson
Radiohead team up with Paul Thomas Anderson once again for their third video from A Moon Shaped Pool Read more »| 16 Sep 2016 -
OpinionCan Miley Cyrus help revive Woody Allen's career?
Might the small screen and Miley Cyrus improve Woody Allen's recent form? Read more »| 15 Sep 2016 -
FestivalsLittle Men
Gentrification, class tensions and coming of age commingle in this vivid slice of life from Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On), who’s slow... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016
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Opinion
The legacy of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Psycho returns to Manchester this Halloween in the form of Psycho Live, with an orchestral score provided by Manchester Camerata. But Alfred Hitchcock's 1960... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
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 -
OpinionWhat 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 -
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