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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Dvd ReviewsThree Days of the Condor
Sidney Pollack’s paranoid thriller Three Days of the Condor comes to Blu-ray from Masters of Cinema Three Days of the Condor might have been viewed as... Read more »| 12 Apr 2016 -
InterviewsDirector Tom Geens on Couple in a Hole
Tom Geens tells us about the tightrope he had to walk getting his moving film debut Couple in a Hole to the screen. The plot of the debut feature from Belgi... Read more »| 11 Apr 2016 -
MusicFugazi's Ian Mackaye set for Restless Natives Q&A
Minor Threat and Fugazi legend Ian Mackaye will take part in an exclusive Q&A session at the inaugural Restless Natives festival in Glasgow next month. ... Read more »| 11 Apr 2016 -
New ReleasesOur Little Sister
Hirokazu Kore-eda delivers another quietly moving slice-of-life family drama Read more »| 11 Apr 2016 -
New Releases
Nasty Baby
Kristen Wiig stars in Sebastián Silva's provocative and unnerving drama examining bohemian Brooklyn Read more »| 08 Apr 2016 -
News
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - First Trailer
The trailer for Star Wars prequel Rogue One has landed Star Wars’ galaxy from a long, long time ago is expanding with A New Hope prequel Rog... Read more »| 07 Apr 2016
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Interviews
Louder than Bombs director: “You’ve got to find your own take”
Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier makes his way across the Atlantic for Louder than Bombs, a New York-set family drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrn... Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Interviews
Son of Saul director: “It had to be raw”
Hungarian director László Nemes tells us how he approached filming the unfilmable with blistering Holocaust drama Son of Saul Set in the Ausch... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
New Releases
Midnight Special
Jeff Nichols delivers an unsettling piece of genre cinema that's undermined by its overblown finale Read more »| 04 Apr 2016 -
Interviews
Hirokazu 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 -
Opinion
Why 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 -
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