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 ReleasesLife Itself
Life Itself is both an unflinching document of the last days of film critic Roger Ebert’s life and a densely packed celebration of his career. The form... Read more »| 10 Nov 2014 -
New Releases
Interstellar
Former King of the Blockbuster Steven Spielberg was originally attached to direct Interstellar, and we can only imagine what his innate humanism would h... Read more »| 05 Nov 2014 -
New Releases
Leviathan
Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan is a film hunting big game. His fourth feature presents modern Russia as a country rotten to its core – corrupt, hypocri... Read more »| 05 Nov 2014 -
New ReleasesNaked City
Jules Dassin’s absorbing 1948 potboiler The Naked City is sometimes billed as a film noir. It’s actually much more concerned with the nitty-gritt... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
New ReleasesHide Your Smiling Faces
Death is introduced early in this US indie, with an opening shot that features a snake ingesting its prey. Its presence then lingers through every frame that... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
New Releases
Youth of the Beast
In 1968, Japanese director Seijun Suzuki saw his long-standing contract with the Nikkatsu studio terminated for repeatedly turning routine potboiler scripts ... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014
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Interviews
From SNL to Sibling Hell: Craig Johnson on The Skeleton Twins
During their stints on SNL, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig proved themselves expert comic performers. In The Skeleton Twins they reveal substantial dramatic chops too. The film's writer-director, Craig Johnson, discusses channeling their dark sides Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
InterviewsSPACE Jam: Video Jam spreads its wings with the SPACES tour
In November, kickass Manchester audio-visual night Video Jam takes to the road, bringing its unique brand of film and live music collaboration to Leeds, London and Liverpool. Video Jam co-curator Shereen Perera tells us where it all began Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Festivals
Set Fire to the Stars
In the centenary year of his birth, there’ll be no shortage of screen depictions of Dylan Thomas. Already in 2014, he’s been surveyed by BBC dram... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Film Events
Scotland Film Event Highlights – November 2014
This month's highlights include women in sci-fi, a new pop-up cinema and a season focussed on the Big Apple Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Festivals
The Skeleton Twins
“Maybe we were doomed from the beginning.” So says bored dental hygienist Maggie (Wiig) in voiceover at the opening of The Skeleton Twins, before... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – November 2014
Extraterrestrials, flying saucers, mysterious clones and malevolent robots from the future invade the Northwest this month Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
News
HOME appoints Curzon's Jason Wood as new artistic director of film
It was announced today that HOME, Manchester’s new cultural centre, has appointed Jason Wood in its newly created role of Artistic Director: Film. Woo... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
New Releases
Rabid Dogs
Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s grindhouse thriller Rabid Dogs (1974) ironically wasn’t released until long after the grindhouse was sent to ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
New Releases
Horns
An adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel of the same name, Horns is a fantasy fable that works well for scattered stretches of its very bloated runtime, but i... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014