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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InterviewsTrump in the Rough: Anthony Baxter on A Dangerous Game
Anthony Baxter's A Dangerous Game revisits the Menie estate and the residents whose David v Goliath battle with property tycoon Donald Trump he documented in You've been Trumped. He explains how he found similar battles happening around the world Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
New ReleasesArt Party
As a piece of filmmaking, the strengths and flaws of Art Party are very much intertwined. In depicting Smith and cohorts on their real-life trip to 2013... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
New Releases
Finding Fela!
The documentaries that roll off the Alex Gibney production line tend to be at their best when the filmmaker is investigating a big story. Films like Mea Maxi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
InterviewsThird Time's the Charm: Anton Corbijn on A Most Wanted Man
Anton Corbijn is one of the world's finest rock photographers. He's pretty handy with the moving image too. Here he discusses his latest film, spy thriller A Most Wanted Man, and working with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
New Releases
Attila Marcel
The last few years have seen some of modern animation’s most acclaimed directors make forays into live action. Notably Brad Bird and Andrew Stanto... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – September 2014
In Liverpool, film fans are putting their noses on the line with a scratch-and-sniff screening of a John Waters classic, while GrimmFest brings a brace of horror previews to Manchester Read more »| 01 Sep 2014
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New Releases
Obvious Child
Hollywood films have famously shown great reluctance to engage with the issue of abortion in an honest way, so the frankness of Gillian Robespierre’s d... Read more »| 25 Aug 2014 -
New Releases
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Belated (and noticeably cheaper-looking) Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For opens with the line, “This doesn’t look good at all. I’ve gone ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
New Releases
Lucy
Rock legends Spinal Tap once philosophised that there’s a fine line between stupid and clever, and Luc Besson’s loony Lucy may be the filmic epit... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
New Releases
Two Days, One Night
A new picture from the Dardenne brothers is always something to treasure; the Belgian filmmakers sprinkle tiny morsels of humanist truth and insight ove... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Frau im Mond
Soberly billed as ‘the first scientific science fiction film,’ Fritz Lang’s final silent feature, 1929’s Frau im Mond, is really almo... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
CineskinnyNight Moves
In her follow-up to Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt’s trademark languid, stripped-back style is maintained for her most narrative-driven film to d... Read more »| 20 Aug 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
The ’Burbs
With its white picket fences, perfectly tended lawns, and boring, unending conformity, suburban America can be a pretty strange place, and never more so... Read more »| 19 Aug 2014 -
New Releases
God Help the Girl
In the pop song format, Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch is a deft storyteller, with a couple of stanzas being all that's needed to sketch a compel... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
New Releases
The Rover
There’s nothing quite so chilling in cinema as mundane violence; violence matched for shock only by the perpetrators – and frame – demonstr... Read more »| 15 Aug 2014