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 ReviewsDifret
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s film is unusual for a work of Ethiopian cinema. Shot in 35mm, it eschews the more export-friendly English language for Amhar... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
FestivalsEIFF 2015: Inside Out
With Inside Out, their 15th animated feature, animation house Pixar take a detour to avoid some of the visual and storytelling beats that have made even thei... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
FestivalsBlack Coal, Thin Ice
In Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer-director Diao Yi'nan takes the tropes of a classic noir detective tale – a down-and-out alcoholic cop with a haunted pa... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
FestivalsPostcard from Auld Reekie – Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Grant McPhee's ten years in the making Big Gold Dream charts the highs and lows of Edinburgh's post-punk scene. Two of its vanguards, Vic Godard and Malcolm Ross, recall those heady days ahead of the film's world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Brand New-U
In the age of Charlie Brooker’s excoriating, insightful Black Mirror series and Dennis Kelly’s sinisterly gleaming Utopia, writer-director Simon ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
FestivalsEIFF 2015: Beyond the Lights
Rising superstar Noni (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is feeling the pressures of fame and finds herself on the literal edge, almost perishing in a suicide j... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015
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EIFF 2015: Black Mountain Poets
Having charmed audiences with last year's double hitter of Benny & Jolene and A Wonderful Christmas Time, Jamie Adams is quietly making a name for himsel... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Forty Guns
In one of Forty Guns’ standout scenes, gunslinger-turned-lawman Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) and cattle baroness Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Festivals
EIFF 2015: Swung
Colin Kennedy’s adaptation of Ewan Morrison’s novel about a couple’s experience of the Glasgow swingers' scene opens with a limp joke about... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Welcome to Me
Based on premise alone, Welcome to Me could have gone horribly wrong all too easily, but director Shira Piven’s barbed satire successfully walks a fine... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Love & Mercy
Two pivotal periods in Brian Wilson’s life collide in Bill Pohlad's dizzying study of the former Beach Boy. One concerns the creation of 1966‘s P... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Last Days in the Desert
White people fannying about reenacting scripture should, on paper, be testing the boundaries of taste. But Last Days in the Desert is so pared down, so sure ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
New Releases
Slow West
There’s a steely confidence to John Maclean’s debut feature, a lyrical fairytale in which a doe-eyed Scottish teen (Smit-McPhee) treks west in se... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Hellions
Hellions is like chewing gum: it begins promisingly enough, with a genuine sense of foreboding and serviceable performances from the lead (Chloe Rose as teen... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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EIFF 2015: Cop Car
Jon Watts’ lean Cop Car has a simple title and a simple premise. Needless complications aren’t piled onto proceedings and the film’s all th... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015