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 ReviewsHarold and Maude
Wes Anderson fans who aren’t familiar with the quirk-fueled pleasures of Harold and Maude should remedy that post-haste, considering the filmmaker&rsqu... Read more »| 14 Jul 2014 -
Festivals
Festival of Broken Dreams: Cannes 2014
We report from the 67th Cannes film festival Read more »| 10 Jul 2014 -
InterviewsBack to Reality: David Gordon Green on Joe
David Gordon Green has one of the strangest CVs in Hollywood, easily switching from lyrical drama (George Washington) to goofy stoner comedies (Pineapple Express). He's back in a more contemplative mood with Joe, a lived-in slice of American Gothic Read more »| 07 Jul 2014 -
New Releases
Boyhood
In Boyhood, Richard Linklater follows the same actors over 12 years, as they age with their characters. Ellar Coltrane plays Mason Jr, a six-year-old bo... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Life May Be
Life May Be is a five part cinematic correspondence between Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins and Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari, made over the last year, du... Read more »| 03 Jul 2014 -
Film EventsScotland Film Event Highlights – July 2014
This month in film there's a tribute to Chaplin, the return of the Found Footage Festival and exploitation classic From Dusk till Dawn is back on the big screen Read more »| 02 Jul 2014
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Interviews
The Way of the Dragons: Dean DeBlois on HTTYD2
Four years on from its release, How to Train Your Dragon feels like a classic, able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the best of Pixar. We speak to its director about the sequel, which premiered alongside the art-house crowd at this year's Cannes Read more »| 02 Jul 2014 -
New Releases
The Night Is Young (Mauvais sang)
If Leos Carax's 2012 film Holy Motors was a demented lament for 'the death of cinema', his 1986 sophomore feature The Night Is Young (known as Mauvais s... Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – July 2014
Plenty of opportunity to sample cinema in the outdoors this month, with Picnic Cinema kicking off and Screenfields back after its Wimbledon break Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
13 Sins
Hollywood’s cannibalistic cycle of consumption and regurgitation continues unabated, as yet another super Asian horror is chewed up, sucked of its crea... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Honeymoon
Brits Harry Treadaway and Game of Throne's Rose Leslie are fresh-faced American newlyweds Paul and Bea in Leigh Janiak’s entertaining if problemat... Read more »| 27 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Beloved Sisters (Die geliebten Schwestern)
Billed on its posters as ‘the secret story of Schiller’s passion’, Beloved Sisters presents a speculative account of the relationship betwe... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: Au revoir l’été
Japanese writer-director Kôji Fukada's excellent previous feature, screened internationally under the name Hospitalité, had a hint of Luis Bu&nt... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: My Red Shoes (Mes souliers rouges)
Splicing old home movies with new footage shot at her parents’ house in Nantes, My Red Shoes sees Iranian-born filmmaker Sara Rastegar examine her own ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Festivals
EIFF 2014: The Infinite Man
When anal-retentive Dean (McConville) brings his girlfriend Lana (Marshall) to the desert motel where they once enjoyed a perfect anniversary, his desire to ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014