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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FestivalsHighlander 30th anniversary screening at EIFF
A new 4k print of Russell Mulcahy's 80s fantasy thriller will screen at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
InterviewsJeremy Saulnier on punks v nazis movie Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier follows up revenge thriller Blue Ruin with Green Room, a nail-biting punks v nazis siege movie. He muses on punk rock, genre labels and casti... Read more »| 06 May 2016 -
New Releases
Everybody Wants Some!!
Richard Linklater's ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed and Confused is a seemingly aimless comedy but it has hidden depths At his best, Richard Linklat... Read more »| 05 May 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Pink String and Sealing Wax's setup suggests a juicy potboiler but this melodrama from Robert Hamer fails to integrate its subplots Victorian Brighton is th... Read more »| 04 May 2016 -
Interviews
Lucile Hadžihalilović interview: Évolution
There's something lurking in the depths in Lucile Hadžihalilović's Évolution. We sat down with this deeply original French filmmaker to shine a light ... Read more »| 04 May 2016 -
MusicBEAK> on scoring Couple in a Hole
Bristolian krautrock disciples BEAK> provided a menacing and evocative score for the Pyrenees-set drama. Ahead of its screening at Restless Natives, Geoff Barrow and Billy Fuller tell us how they handled the task Read more »| 03 May 2016
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Dvd ReviewsMan with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov's uncategorisable masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera comes to Blu-ray from Masters of Cinema Little can be added to the praise heaped upo... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – May 2016
This month we've two new festivals (one celebrating TV, the other sci-fi), some audiovisual shenanigans at FACT and an opportunity to see a 13-hour epic by a French New Wave master Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Only Angels Have Wings
Cary Grant stars in Howard Hawks' witty and tragic melodrama Only Angels Have Wings, which comes to UK Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection Hollywood giant ... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
New Releases
Knight of Cups
Terrence Malick is back with Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman. The film's as beautiful as you'd expect, but plot a... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Event Highlights – May 2016
In Edinburgh and Glasgow's cinemas this month, catch a retrospective of cinema's great visual poet, Andrei Tarkovsky, plus the best of Ibero-American documentary and the return of the Film Folk Gathering Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
Ran
Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning take on Shakespeare's King Lear comes to Blu-ray to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death A battle rages and the... Read more »| 02 May 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Released as part of The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection from Arrow Films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is one of the German filmmaker's finest achievments Read more »| 02 May 2016 -
Opinion
Nathan Barley – Why being cool is overrated
We take a look back at Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris's seminal sitcom Nathan Barley with Charlie Condou, who played ridiculous magazine editor Jonatton Ye... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
News
Nespresso Talents 2016: Vote for your favourite
Nespresso Talents 2016 shortlist has been announced and it’s up to you to take to Facebook or Twitter to choose the three films to be sc... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016