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 ReleasesMidnight Special
Jeff Nichols delivers an unsettling piece of genre cinema that's undermined by its overblown finale Read more »| 04 Apr 2016 -
InterviewsHirokazu Kore-eda on Our Little Sister
With films like I Wish and Nobody Knows, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has proven himself the modern master of quiet family dramas. His latest, Our Littl... Read more »| 04 Apr 2016 -
OpinionWhy so serious? The death of comic relief in film
We used to go to blockbusters to be thrilled and to giggle. But modern Hollywood seems to have lost its sense of humour, with depressing YA adaptations and morose superheroes dominating our movie screens. We mourn the death of the comic relief. Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Festivals
Six Reasons to go to ¡Viva! Festival in Manchester
¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Festival is now cross-artform. Here are six reasons why you'd be mad not to make it along Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Festivals¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival: Look South
¡Viva! returns to HOME this month as a cross-artform festival bringing the best of Spanish and Latin American theatre, film and visual art to Manchester. We focus in on the great cinema coming from South America in the programme Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – April 2016
¡Viva! returns as a cross-art festival and celebrate Record Store Day with a great double bill of music-movie faves High Fidelity and Empire Records I... Read more »| 31 Mar 2016
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Theatre
5 Films You May Not Know Are Based on Shakespeare
From unrequited love to the circle of life, we look at some of the films (and TV) adapted from and inspired by the works of William Shakespeare Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Event Highlights – April 2016
It's anarchy in our cinemas this month, with blood, radicalism and alchemy on our screens courtesy of Dead by Dawn, the Radical Film Festival and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
CineskinnyCouple in a Hole
A mysterious study in the devastating power of loss Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Eureka
Nicolas Roeg's underappreciated Eureka, starring Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke and Joe Pesci, comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Rocco and His Brothers
Luchino Visconti epic family saga gets its first Blu-ray release, from Masters of Cinema Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Interviews
Sebastian Schipper on single-shot crime flick Victoria
Sebastian Schipper has made a thrilling single-shot crime odyssey set in Berlin. Unfortunately, few believed he pulled it off without hidden edits. It's time to set the record straight Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
New Releases
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman, starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, has some interesting ideas and compositions, but it ends up a byzantine mess. Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Something Different & A Bagful of Fleas
Two early works by the great Czech filmmaker Věra Chytilová come to DVD from Second Run Read more »| 22 Mar 2016 -
News
Short Film Competition: Win €6000 with Nespresso
Think vertically with Nespresso Talents 2016 and your film could be showcased in a private screening during the Cannes Film Festival Cinema doesn’t si... Read more »| 18 Mar 2016