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 ReleasesAvengers: Age of Ultron
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, James Spader voices the eponymous villain, an entity of artificial intelligence that can inhabit seemingly any mechanical host ar... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015 -
InterviewsThe enduring influence of David Lynch's Twin Peaks
It's been 24 years since Twin Peaks was cancelled, but such is its influence it feels like it's never been away. With recent talk of new episodes and an upcoming conference devoted to the series, we delve back inside its surreal world Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
“I want to be unpredictable”: Roy Andersson Interview
A filmmaker sat on a chair reflecting on cinema – we speak to deadpan poet Roy Andersson about his new film and the human condition Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
New ReleasesThe Salvation
As ever, Mads Mikkelsen dominates in writer-director Kristian Levring’s classy, if brutal, western. It’s another effortlessly charismatic perform... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
New ReleasesChild 44
A whole heap of classy star power can’t save Daniel Espinosa’s adaptation of Tim Rob Smith’s popular novel, the cast instead flailing about... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
New ReleasesA Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Following Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson here concludes his absurdist trilogy of human nature. It’s an i... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015
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Dvd Reviews
The Offence
Over a career spanning five decades, Sidney Lumet specialised in taut, claustrophobic human dramas. But while the director's early works such as 12 Angry Men... Read more »| 16 Apr 2015 -
Videos
The Skinny Short Film Competition 2014 Winner: Misery Guts
Watch short film Misery Guts from Rory Alexander Stewart, winner of The Skinny's inaugural Short Film Competition Read more »| 13 Apr 2015 -
New Releases
Lost River
Ryan Gosling draws on his favourite filmmakers to produce his debut as writer-director, an often dazzling and always thought-provoking modern fairy tale that... Read more »| 10 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
School Daze: Carol Morley on The Falling
A fainting epidemic befalls a strict girls' school in 60s Britain in The Falling. Director Carol Morley invites you into this balmy world of teenage secrets and mass hysteria Read more »| 09 Apr 2015 -
Festivals
Dundead Horror Film Festival announces 2015 schedule
The lineup for this year’s Dundead festival at Dundee Contemporary Arts has been announced. The UK premiere of American kidnap thriller The Badger Gam... Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
Festivals
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015: Teen angst, guerrilla screenings and outrunning capitalism
We look back at another great Glasgow Short Film Festival, which offered plenty of teen angst, an opportunity to take cinema on to the streets of Glasgow and a possible escape from the "shithole" of mainstream narrative cinema Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
The Samurai
Werewolf films tend to deal with the physical, and thus psycho-sexual, painful metamorphosis of a coming-of-age protagonist, from Ginger Snaps to Teen Wolf. ... Read more »| 06 Apr 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
There is an argument to be made that Heart of Darkness, which follows the turbulent production of Francis Ford Coppola's revered Apocalypse Now, is... Read more »| 06 Apr 2015 -
New Releases
John Wick
The name John Wick seems to send shivers down the spine of anyone who utters it in Chad Stahelski’s impressively lean and wry thriller, and it’s ... Read more »| 06 Apr 2015