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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Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – October 2015
This month's column is dominated by two events: multiple screenings marking the date when Marty McFly sees his future in Back to the Future Part II, and Halloween, the horror-buff's favourite night of the year Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
New ReleasesRed Army
Gabe Polsky’s compelling film about the world-beating Soviet ice hockey team that dominated the sport from 1954 to 1991 is a swift and incisive examina... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Deep Red
Heavily influential on John Carpenter's Halloween, Italian slasher classic Deep Red comes to DVD. Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
New ReleasesSicario
With one leading Republican nominee currently bloviating about building a "giant wall" between the US and Mexico, Sicario feels like a timely critique of Ame... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Seconds
There’s a good reason this paranoid thriller bombed at the 1966 box office – it’s possibly the bleakest film ever made. John Frankenheimer&... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
New ReleasesThe Martian
He's already been beamed into the International Space Station by NASA, and now Matt Damon's wise-cracking castaway is arriving in UK cinemas in Ridley Scott's new sci-fi, The Martian. Read more »| 01 Oct 2015
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New Releases
The Intern
Audiences are so used to Robert De Niro mortgaging off his reputation that his appearances in predictable fluff like The Intern no longer seem quite so unpal... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Turbo 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 Reviews
Night 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 ReviewsResults
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 -
Opinion
In 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 Releases
Life
Control director Anton Corbijn returns with Life, a study in the deification of James Dean. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015 -
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