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 ReviewsTurbo Kid
An affectionately schlocky homage to bottom-shelf 80s genre flicks, Turbo Kid goes all out on the nostalgia front, packing View-Masters, Rubik’s Cubes ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsNight and the City
Few films are as drenched in fear, anger and desperation as Night and the City. It was Jules Dassin’s first film in exile from America after being blac... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Results
If Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess was his most defiantly uncommercial film to date, Results initially seems like the first time this filmmaker has co... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
OpinionIn Praise of Seconds
It’s taken a long time for John Frankenheimer’s film to be appreciated as the modern masterpiece it is. Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
Festivals
Jake Gyllenhaal: “Do you think masculinity lacks sensitivity?”
From a skinny sociopath in Nightcrawler to a jacked boxer in Southpaw, the last few years have seen Jake Gyllenhaal go to extremes for his art. He's at it again with true-life disaster flick Everest – we catch up with the star at the Venice Film Festival Read more »| 24 Sep 2015 -
New ReleasesLife
Control director Anton Corbijn returns with Life, a study in the deification of James Dean. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015
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New Releases
Captive
The latest edition to the emerging genre of 'faith-based-on-a-true-story' films for the evangelical set, Captive recounts the harrowing ordeal of real-life f... Read more »| 23 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
There's a scene in Terence Fisher's Hammer Horror classic in which Dr Bonner (Diffring) shows someone a photo of himself from decades ago and they gasp at th... Read more »| 22 Sep 2015 -
New Releases
Macbeth
Even with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, Justin Kurzel presents a very Scottish Macbeth. Read more »| 21 Sep 2015 -
New ReleasesHorse Money
To offer a reductive description of Pedro Costa’s Horse Money for those unfamiliar with it or him as a filmmaker, imagine the following: Labyrinth, exc... Read more »| 17 Sep 2015 -
Music
Starred Up Reworked: Track Premiere
Listen to 'Credit', the closing track from the reworked soundtrack to David Mackenzie's BAFTA Scotland-winning film Starred Up, due for a vinyl release this November Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
Art
HOME announces Oct 2015-Mar 2016 season
Manchester multi-arts venue HOME announces its Autumn/Winter season of art, theatre and film Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Students
Student Guide: Movie Tribes at University
Cinephile? Contrarian? Ironist? Meet the tribes of film fans swarming the dorms at university. Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Festivals
Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2015
Finding good LGBT cinema on UK screens can be a challenge. Praise be, then, for SQIFF (24-27 Sep), a new community-focused film festival representing and reflecting queer identity Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Festivals
Harold Crooks on The Price We Pay
Harold Crooks' documentary on corporate tax avoidance kicks off Take One Action! Film Festival in style. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015