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 ReviewsEat 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 ReviewsMy 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 -
InterviewsMe 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
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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 -
FestivalsA Girl at My Door
July Jung shows a delicate touch in A Girl at My Door which thrums with love, desire and violence. Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
The Messenger
Though pitched as a supernatural thriller, The Messenger dwells more on its protagonist’s own troubled life than the conspiracy he uncovers, but that&r... Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
Dope
In Rick Famuyiwa’s subversive coming-of-age misadventure comedy, three high school “90s hip hop geeks” get mixed up in drug trafficking and... Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
Short Film Competition
CAUSTIC GULP wins The Skinny Short Film Competition
The Skinny are thrilled to reveal that the winner of our 2015 short film competition is CAUSTIC GULP from filmmaker Bryan M Ferguson. Read more »| 24 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
Sensoria launches its 2015 Programme
Sheffield music and film festival Sensoria returns for 2015, with Tim Burgess’s Tim Peaks Diner. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Colors
Three years before Boyz n the Hood portrayed social problems in inner-city Los Angeles, Dennis Hopper’s Colors took a look at actual East LA gangs and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
State of Grace
Phil Joanou's Sean Penn-starring mob movie State of Grace was originally released around the same time as Goodfellas, so first time round it might as well ha... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Videos
RETCON by Bensalem Mitchell
Director Bensalem Mitchell explains the ideas, inspirations and processes behind his film RETCON, the final shortlisted film in The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015 Read more »| 14 Aug 2015