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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FestivalsTake One Action 2015: Festival Preview
Take One Action! is the UK’s leading social change film festival, looking at humanitarian concerns. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
InterviewsRobert Sheehan: Returning to the Supernatural
The Misfits star discusses The Messenger, where he plays an unwashed weirdo who can speak to the dead. Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
FestivalsScalarama: An annual celebration of cinema
We look ahead to the annual festival that brings together the UK's film clubs and indie exhibitors for a month of cinema celebration Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Film Events
Scottish Film Event Highlights – September 2015
Scalarama, Tremors and Masterpieces of Polish Cinema feature in our picks for Glasgow and Edinburgh. Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Opinion
Our Favourite British Films 2010-2015
To mark the publication of new film book New British Cinema from Submarine to 12 Years a Slave, we polled The Skinny's film writers to ascertain their favourite British films of the decade so far Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
La Grande Bouffe
Reviled upon its release in 1973, La Grande Bouffe now stands as one of sidelined auteur Marco Ferrari's most palatable works. Of course, the tale of French ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015
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Dvd Reviews
Pickup on South Street
Sam Fuller’s punchy New York noir Pickup on South Street is lean and mean, yet also contains a curiously jovial quality to its portrait of post-war sca... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Cruel Story of Youth
'Cruel' is the operative word in the title of Nagisa Oshima’s second feature – one of three he turned out in quick succession in 1960. This rapid... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Eat Drink Man Woman
The final chapter in Ang Lee’s 'Father Knows Best' trilogy completes the director’s tenderly ironic chronicle of the compromise between tradition... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Pressure
It’s just as well for director Ron Scalpello that last year’s Black Sea flopped. Had Kevin MacDonald’s submarine thriller found the audienc... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
My Darling Clementine
John Ford’s take on the Gunfight at the OK Corral was one of the first of his string of Westerns in the sound era and has a legendary cast including He... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – we meet the cast
A YA weepy centred on a terminally ill teen might have some reaching for the sick bucket, but Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, dubbed "the Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers" by one US critic, is a different breed. We meet its talented young cast Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
New Releases
Closed Curtain
Jafar Panahi’s semi-documentary This Is Not a Film visualised and articulated his plight after a draconian sentence from the Iranian government (regard... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
New Releases
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
While escaping the social hell that is high school with his best friend and 'co-worker' Earl (RJ Cyler), our lead protagonist Greg (Thomas Mann) unexpec... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – September 2015
There's a flurry of repertory screenings this month thanks to Scalarama's month-long cinephilic celebrations, as well as the return of Sheffield's Sensoria and the Northwest premiere horror festival, Grimmfest Read more »| 01 Sep 2015