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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FestivalsEIFF 2014: Garnet’s Gold
In Ed Perkin’s documentary Garnet’s Gold, a peculiar man with an improbable name, Garnet Frost, sets out on the quest of his life, a quixotic jou... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: The Paternal House
The opening scene of Iranian drama The Paternal House plays like a home invasion thriller, as a weeping young woman flees from room to room, barricading door... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Home (Hemma)
Coffee is the beverage of choice in Maximilian Hult’s sweet but never treacly directorial debut, and with a name like Home, it’s not difficult to... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Uncertain Terms
Almost everyone who saw Nathan Silver’s first film and EIFF debut in 2012, Exit Elena, was hugely impressed by a new, smart and humane voice in US... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Boy Meets Girl
At long last, Leos Carax’s debut film, Boy Meets Girl, comes to Blu-ray. Originally premiered in International Critic’s Week in Cannes 1984, when... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
The Rocket
The Rocket’s title refers to a traditional Lao festival featured in the film’s final act: a rambunctious celebration at which participants compet... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014
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EIFF 2014: Hellion
Hellion is a low-key family drama that explores grief and responsibility. Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Hollis, a boozy single parent who&r... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Joe
With Joe, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche) returns to his roots, examining the grim reality of society’s underclass wi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: I Believe in Unicorns
A merging of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland might be read as a possible influence on I Believe in Unicorns, but this ver... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
Videos
Ti West on The Sacrament: Video interview
While in town for FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival, we grabbed a quick chat in a cafe with Ti West about his new film The Sacrament, a faux-documentary ho... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Castles in the Sky
It’s hard to represent the creative process of invention on screen without resorting to cliché. Gillies Mackinnon’s Castles in the Sky, ho... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
New Releases
Chef
Chef centres on Casper, a cook, once the darling of the LA food scene, who's stuck in a rut churning out uninspired nosh for his philistine restaurateur paym... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular. The first follows a man (Tsai’s go-to leading man... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Violet
Violet opens with a silent act of violence, the murder of a teenage boy in an empty shopping mall, wordlessly captured from multiple angles on CCTV. After wi... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Snowpiercer
Adapted from a French comic, directed by South Korean maverick Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), and featuring a stacked roster of American, Europ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014