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 ReleasesTales of the Grim Sleeper
Documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield is a sort of pop-cultural nomad. In past efforts he’s bumbled after Sarah Palin and Tupac. Alongside Republicans ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2015 -
New ReleasesKingsman: The Secret Service
Reuniting the director, chief screenwriter and source material scribe of Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Mark Millar respectively), Kingsman:... Read more »| 28 Jan 2015 -
Dvd ReviewsTwo for the Road
Viewed through a contemporary prism, one might pithily describe 1967's Two for the Road as being like the entire Before trilogy compacted into one featu... Read more »| 27 Jan 2015 -
New Releases
Beyond Clueless
Do you ever wish the likes of EuroTrip and The Craft received the same kind of forensic critical scrutiny reserved for canonised classics? Charlie Lyne certa... Read more »| 23 Jan 2015 -
New ReleasesA Most Violent Year
Set in New York in 1981 (the city’s most violent year on record), writer-director J.C. Chandor’s third film focuses on aspirational heating ... Read more »| 23 Jan 2015 -
Dvd Reviews
Wish I Was Here
How do you know when it’s time to stop chasing your dreams? In Zach Braff’s second directorial feature, this dilemma weighs heavily on Aidan (pla... Read more »| 23 Jan 2015
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Dvd Reviews
Draft Day
Sonny Weaver (Costner), general manager of the Cleveland Browns, is having a tough time in this Ivan Reitman comic drama. He's recently fired the team’... Read more »| 22 Jan 2015 -
New Releases
The 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 -
News
Glasgow 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 Reviews
World 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 ReleasesInherent 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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The 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