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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OpinionSeven Alternative Christmas Movies
Fancy watching some Christmas films over the festive break but don't want to be assaulted by shmaltz, tinsel or Christmas spirit? Try these seven alternative Christmas movies for size... Read more »| 14 Dec 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsStraight Outta Compton
Despite some unambivalent lionisation, this much-anticipated NWA biopic tells an undeniably powerful tale Read more »| 14 Dec 2015 -
Interviews
Terence Davies interview: making Sunset Song
Terence Davies has been trying to adapt Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel Sunset Song for over 15 years. We catch up with the Liverpudlian filmmaker on the eve of its release to find out why he persevered to bring it to the screen Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
New ReleasesThe Quiet Man
Sean Thornton (Wayne) arrives in his familial home of Inisfree to trade the bustle of the States for the sleepy charms of the Emerald Isle. He’s allure... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
New Releases
Day of the Outlaw
André de Toth’s gorgeous black-and-white noir-tinged western, shot in 1959, is a terrific example of early genre interrogation that precedes the... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
A New Leaf
This long overdue release is accompanied by a video essay in which critic David Cairns laments the feature’s unremarkable box office performance. Had A... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015
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New Releases
Danny Boyle talks Steve Jobs and Trainspotting 2
Livewire filmmaker Danny Boyle on working with Michael Fassbender, making Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs script cinematic and the long-awaited Trainspotting 2 Da... Read more »| 04 Dec 2015 -
FestivalsWings of Desire at Paisley Abbey
Paisley Abbey becomes the stage for pyrotechnics and a trapeze performance for Glasgow Film Festival's very special screening of Wim Wender's deeply romantic... Read more »| 04 Dec 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Trainwreck
Amy Schumer’s spiky humour is diluted in this redemptive rom-com Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Richie's big-screen adaptation of the 60s spy show fails to thrill Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Interviews
Guy Maddin interview: we enter The Forbidden Room
Misfit director Guy Maddin brings cinema's past to life in new film The Forbidden Room. He tells us about trying to create a sense of disinhibited wonder on ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
New Releases
The Forbidden Room
The Forbidden Room delivers exhausting and overwhelming film experience Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Opinion
Films of 2015: Hippies, Road Warriors and STD Hauntings
Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »| 02 Dec 2015 -
Opinion
DVD Gift Guide: What to get that cinephile in your life
Nothing says 'I'm apathetic towards your existence' more than an Amazon Gift Card. Show that cinephile in your life that you care by popping some of these movies into their Christmas stocking Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Belleville Rendez-vous
Sylvain Chomet's surreal animation Belleville Rendez-Vous gets a DVD rerelease A decade on from its initial release, and with traditional 2D animation strug... Read more »| 01 Dec 2015