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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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 -
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
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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 ReleasesBatman 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 ReviewsSomething 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 -
VideosScott Graham on Iona: video interview
Scott Graham sat down with The Skinny at Edinburgh International Film Festival to discuss his poignant drama Iona ahead of its world premiere at the festival Read more »| 18 Mar 2016 -
Festivals
The Pass
BFI Southbank's LGBT film festival Flare kicked off in fine style last night with The Pass, a sharp and richly emotional drama about a closeted Premier Leagu... Read more »| 17 Mar 2016 -
Dvd Reviews
The City of Lost Children
Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's cult classic The City of Lost Children comes to Blu-ray It’s Christmas Eve and a young child beams as Santa slides ... Read more »| 16 Mar 2016 -
Interviews
Five Great Short Filmmakers & Five to See at GSFF
Glasgow Short Film Festival director, Matt Lloyd, suggests five great filmmakers making short films and we choose our picks from this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival programme. Read more »| 14 Mar 2016