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.
-
Dvd ReviewsToo Late Blues
With this second feature, John Cassavetes married the brio of his blistering debut, Shadows, with the sleek style of the studio system. The results are succe... Read more »| 21 Jul 2014 -
New ReleasesDawn of the Planet of the Apes
Set ten years after 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a global pandemic has all but wiped out humanity, and a San Francisco colony, led by Gary Ol... Read more »| 16 Jul 2014 -
InterviewsHollywood Car Chases Just Got... Safer
Ever wish your life was more like an action movie? Of course you don’t. Think about it: it would be exhausting, not to mention life-threatening. But ... Read more »| 14 Jul 2014 -
New Releases
I Am Divine
When Glenn Milstead died from a heart condition in 1988, he was just hours away from shooting his first episode of Married... with Children, the hit Fox sitc... Read more »| 14 Jul 2014 -
New ReleasesHow to Train Your Dragon 2
Following the smash success of How to Train Your Dragon, this sequel – part coming-of-age tale, part family drama, part aerial war movie – fast-f... Read more »| 14 Jul 2014 -
New Releases
Grand Central
Nuclear radiation provides the unusual backdrop for a love affair in Grand Central. Tahar Rahim plays Gary, a man with an unclear criminal background who beg... Read more »| 14 Jul 2014
-
New Releases
Norte, the End of History
Filipino director Lav Diaz has been working consistently since the late 1990s but, with most of his films running for anything up to nine hours, the rel... Read more »| 14 Jul 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Harold 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 -
Interviews
Back 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 ReleasesBoyhood
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 -
Festivals
EIFF 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 Events
Scotland 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 -
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