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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NewsAvengers: Age of Ultron's first trailer goes online
It’s not even November and the summer blockbuster race is on, with the first trailer released from Marvel's superhero sequel Avengers: Age of Ultr... Read more »| 23 Oct 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsAnimal Farm
A classroom favourite, Halas and Batchelor’s animated adaptation of Orwell’s classic political fable arrives on Blu-ray with a crisp high-definit... Read more »| 23 Oct 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsBlacula – The Complete Collection
Today, a torturous pun in the title usually indicates a horror with tongue lodged tightly in cheek (see this month’s undead rodent feature Zombeavers).... Read more »| 23 Oct 2014 -
News
New footage from early Oscar contender Birdman released
A new clip from dark meta-comedy Birdman, starring Michael Keaton as a washed-up former action movie star, has appeared online. In Birdman, Keaton &nda... Read more »| 17 Oct 2014 -
New Releases
The Babadook
Mining terrifying themes of maternal instincts, debut writer-director Kent’s cerebral spook story marks her as a talent to watch. Essie Davis is extrao... Read more »| 17 Oct 2014 -
NewsScottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival winners announced
The twelve winning films at this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival have been revealed ahead of the festival’s awards ceremony ... Read more »| 15 Oct 2014
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Dvd Reviews
Zombeavers
The concept of ferocious undead beavers gorged on college kids' flesh is chucklesome enough to hide a multitude of sins, and Jordan Rubin’s picture cer... Read more »| 15 Oct 2014 -
New ReleasesNorthern Soul
Back in the 60s and 70s, a generation of music fans fell in love with an underground dance movement known as northern soul. Flourishing in the north of Engla... Read more »| 13 Oct 2014 -
New Releases
The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner boasts an intriguing, Twilight Zone-style premise. In the opening sequence, a young man (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up in a moving freight lift wit... Read more »| 10 Oct 2014 -
New Releases
Annabelle
If the thought of a low-rent prequel to James Wan’s The Conjuring helmed by his director of photography holds little excitement, watching Annabell... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
News
Female-led Ghostbusters 'reboot' confirmed
A new Ghostbusters film – with an all-female crop of ‘Busters – has been confirmed by director Paul Feig. Feig told US magazine Enter... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Videos
Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena discuss zombie comedy Life After Beth: Video Interview
Life After Beth joins Shaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies in the ever-growing rom-zom-com subgenre. It features Parks and Recreation star A... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Moebius
Kim Ki-duk's recent films have been as ugly in form as they have been in content. Moebius, his latest psychosexual drama, is no different. Shot hand-hel... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
WolfCop
Yet another doolally 80s horror pastiche, WolfCop remembers the rule that some of its predecessors (notably Hobo with a Shotgun) forgot: never let the nastin... Read more »| 08 Oct 2014 -
News
Twin Peaks to return to TV screens in 2016
David Lynch’s dark television classic Twin Peaks is to return for a third series in 2016, 25 years after the airing of the show’s final episode. ... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014