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 ReleasesAttila 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 Events
Northwest 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 -
New ReleasesObvious 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 ReleasesSin 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 ReleasesLucy
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
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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 -
Cineskinny
Night 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 -
Festivals
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Love, betrayal and escape in rural Texas drive the pulpy small-town noir We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the promising feature debut of director brothers Sim... Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
Cineskinny
The Congress
The Congress hinges on big ideas, but falls apart under light scrutiny; your enjoyment of it will depend on how much you care about the actual mechanics... Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Faust
The story of Faust had already inspired a wealth of haunting artworks by the time F.W. Murnau turned his hand to an adaptation of the enduring German folktal... Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
Interviews
Stuart Murdoch on God Help the Girl
Stuart Murdoch's debut film God Help the Girl has been a long time in the making, but this month UK film fans get to see the efforts of his labour. The Belle & Sebastian frontman recalls how his lead character came to him fully formed Read more »| 04 Aug 2014