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: 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 -
FestivalsEIFF 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 -
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EIFF 2014: Finding Vivian Maier
In 2007 John Maloof, while researching for a book on Chicago, happened upon a collection of 30,000 prints and negatives by one Vivian Maier. Googling her nam... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Cold in July
The exploitation revival of the last ten or so years has produced more duds than doozies, but Jim Mickle here delivers a real highlight of the sub-genre with... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Let Us Prey
This visually stylish low budget horror looks like it’ll be a real treat from the doom-leaden and aggressive opening, as a flock of crows and chilling ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014
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EIFF 2014: Something, Anything
Something, Anything is a concise, fascinating exploration of American life, making pointed use of Southern cultural values for a more universal story of mala... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF2014: Greyhawk
A blind army veteran loses his guide dog and only friend, Quincy, on a tough estate in this slight but extremely well put together debut feature from Matt an... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Hyena
A compelling central performance from Peter Ferdinando is not enough to save Gerard Johnson’s derivative and deeply unpleasant thriller, Hyena. Ferdina... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: The Picks
We attempt to narrow down this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival programme, which features 156 features from 47 countries, to only ten must sees – and cheat a bit Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
New Releases
Camille Claudel 1915
The contemporary king of grim French cinema, director Bruno Dumont’s latest, the stark Camille Claudel 1915, is based on personal letters and medical r... Read more »| 16 Jun 2014 -
New Releases
Devil's Knot
So lurid and bizarre were the details of the West Memphis Three trial that a dramatisation of events to accompany the several documentaries on the subject wa... Read more »| 13 Jun 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Nashville
Nashville, Robert Altman’s 1975 masterpiece set over five days at a country and western festival, is full of contradictions. It’s an epic, runnin... Read more »| 13 Jun 2014 -
New Releases
Oculus
A malevolent killer mirror runs amok in suburbanites’ psyches in writer-director Mike Flanagan’s very silly but really quite effective horror. Ka... Read more »| 12 Jun 2014 -
Interviews
Horsin’ Around: Benedikt Erlingsson on Of Horses and Men
Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson talks sex, death and global warming ahead of his delightful debut feature, Of Horses and Men, trotting into UK cinemas Read more »| 12 Jun 2014