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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Dvd ReviewsThe ’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 ReleasesGod 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 -
CineskinnyThe 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
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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 -
Festivals
Welcome to New York
Abel Ferrara’s blunt-force Welcome to New York is a thinly-veiled fictionalisation of the sexual assault incident that disgraced former IMF chief Domin... Read more »| 04 Aug 2014 -
VideosNoel Clarke on The Anomaly: Video interview
Noel Clarke talks to us about his recent release The Anomaly, a sci-fi thriller starring Ian Somerhalder, Brian Cox and Luke Hemsworth, in which a soldier wa... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Film Events
Scotland Film Event Highlights – August 2014
There's a chance to celebrate Scottish cinema this month with touring film programme To See Oursels and Stuart Murdoch's Glasgow-set debut God Help the Girl. Plus another filmmaking musician comes to the Cameo and some great anime screens at GFT Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
New Releases
Guardians of the Galaxy
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy make their cinematic debut in James Gunn’s nutso, wilfully incoherent and very, very funny romp through space an... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – August 2014
There’s something for everyone this month, from a Hollywood heavyweight to an arty party Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
Cineskinny
The Deer Hunter
Long, roughly edited, and with an almost dragging realism, The Deer Hunter continues to resonate divisively since its original 1978 release. Naively heroic, ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Film Events
Fresh Perspectives: Pride at the Pictures
We take a look at the pleasingly eclectic film programme at this year's Liverpool Pride festival Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Shoot the Pianist
Sandwiched between The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim, François Truffaut's frequently neglected second feature is only marginally less essential tha... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014