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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New ReleasesMission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
The Mission: Impossible series now feels a fair distance away from Brian De Palma’s dark, brooding 1996 effort. Five films and nearly two decades in, E... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsKilling Zoe
It’s easy to guess why audiences are turned off by Roger Avary. He won an Oscar co-scripting Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, but if his two dir... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Film EventsScottish Film Event Highlights – August 2015
Film highlights include an indie star at GFT, Fringe regulars presenting their favourite movies at Cameo and a comedic takedown of one of the worst movies of all time Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Videos
Tapes from the Revolutionary by Scott Willis: The Skinny Short Film Competition Shortlist 2015
Shortlisted in The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015, director Scott Willis explains the inspirations and processes behind his film, Tapes From the Revolutionary Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
New ReleasesIris
As a modest portrait of an ostentatious fashion icon, Iris is an absolute delight. The final film by the equally legendary documentarian Albert Maysles (befo... Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – August 2015
You’ve a couple of al fresco cinema offerings this month with Secret Garden Cinema and Route 66 Drive-In. There’s also the opportunity to celebrate the unique acting talents of Nicolas Cage with CAGEFEST Read more »| 29 Jul 2015
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Interviews
Alexander Skarsgård: “Even in a sex scene, you can’t show a butt or a nipple”
In coming-of-age tale The Diary of a Teenage Girl, True Blood star Alexander Skarsgård goes from vampire to cradle robber. The Skinny talks to the Swedish hunk about teenage sexuality, Hollywood's prudishness, Zoolander, and a moustachioed Tarzan Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
3 Women
Reportedly inspired by a dream, 3 Women represents Robert Altman at his most experimental – the film’s eerie underwater shots (or, more technical... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Stalag 17
Greater than The Great Escape, American prisoner of war tale Stalag 17 is a darkly comic theatre adaptation from director Billy Wilder. Simultaneously fiery ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Videos
Peter by Chris Cronin: The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015
Shortlisted in The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015, director Chris Cronin explains the inspirations and processes behind his film, Peter Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Short Film Competition
The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015 Shortlist
We're delighted to announce the shortlist of films in contention for The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015. Following our inaugural 2014 competition, ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Cemetery Without Crosses
Revenge plots have an appealing simplicity – they clarify everyone's motivation and streamline the story towards its inevitable conclusion. Their spars... Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
Interviews
Ana Lily Amirpour on her Iranian vampire Western
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour's tale of a righteous, chador-clad vampire who's cleaning up her one horse town, is the year's most beguiling movie. She tells us about the film's influences ahead of its UK DVD release Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
New Releases
Best of Enemies
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's gripping doc is structured like a boxing movie, but in this case the pugilists are intellectual heavyweights. In the ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2015 -
Videos
Robert Carlyle on The Legend of Barney Thomson
Trainspotting and 28 Weeks Later star Robert Carlyle discusses his directorial debut, the Glasgow-set black comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson. Carlyle sta... Read more »| 22 Jul 2015