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 ReleasesThe Gambler
Mark Wahlberg sheds the pounds and dusts off his best give-me-awards face to play Jim Bennett, a silver-spooned and self-destructive English professor whose ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2015 -
NewsGlasgow Film Festival 2015 programme announced
With the full line-up for the 2015 Glasgow Film Festival unveiled, we take a look at some of the highlights, from screenings at pop-up roller discos to new films from Ruben Östlund and Noah Baumbach. Read more »| 21 Jan 2015 -
New Releases
Ex Machina
In Ex Machina, Caleb (Gleeson) is an impressionable computer programmer sequestered to his mega rich genius boss Nathan’s (Isaac) remote Alaskan palace... Read more »| 21 Jan 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsWorld 1-1
If you happened to chance upon last year's Video Games: The Movie documentary then you may have been left wondering if the celluloid screen was really t... Read more »| 19 Jan 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
The Boxtrolls
An adaptation of Alan Snow’s novel Here Be Monsters!, stop-motion animation The Boxtrolls is a comedic fable set in and under a Victorian-era town whos... Read more »| 19 Jan 2015 -
New Releases
Inherent Vice
As we watch Joaquin Phoenix’s shambling, stoned detective saunter aimlessly through a labyrinthine plot in 1970s LA, it’s easy to see why Robert ... Read more »| 19 Jan 2015
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NewsThe Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman lead 2015 Oscar nominations
The awards season kicked into a higher gear today as the Oscars announced the nominations for its 87th awards, to take place 22 Feb in Los Angeles. Much of t... Read more »| 15 Jan 2015 -
New Releases
American Sniper
Clint Eastwood brings his typically fat-free directorial style to this biopic of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. In many ways, his simplicity of approach and fo... Read more »| 15 Jan 2015 -
TheatreHOME 2015 opening programme launched
HOME, Manchester’s new centre for contemporary visual art, theatre and film, yesterday presented its extensive opening programme for 2015. The launch t... Read more »| 15 Jan 2015 -
New Releases
Whiplash
It’s rare in cinema to have an experience that's equally physically exhausting and intellectually nourishing; to walk away drained, dumbstruck, by the ... Read more »| 12 Jan 2015 -
New Releases
Wild
Jean-Marc Vallée has certainly been keeping busy, with this adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir sandwiched between last year&rsquo... Read more »| 12 Jan 2015 -
News
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman, The Theory of Everything lead BAFTA nominations
The nominations for the 2015 British Academy Film Awards have been announced, with Wes Anderson’s comic caper The Grand Budapest Hotel picking up eleve... Read more »| 09 Jan 2015 -
Interviews
Not Another Teen Movie: Charlie Lyne on Beyond Clueless
Ever wish your favourite teen movie got the same critical cred afforded worthy art films? Charlie Lyne – the voice behind irreverent film blog Ultra Culture – celebrates this most maligned of sub-genres with his debut feature Beyond Clueless Read more »| 09 Jan 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
The Grand Seduction
Even if you’ve not seen French-Canadian film La Grande Seduction, this English-language remake will give you déjà vu. Its sentimental plo... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Interviews
Bad Teacher: Damien Chazelle on Whiplash
Nicknamed 'Full Metal Juilliard', Whiplash tells the story of a young drummer dragged to the brink of insanity by his brutal music teacher. Its director, Damien Chazelle, explains how he brought this thrilling movie to the screen Read more »| 05 Jan 2015