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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FestivalsBuried Treasure: Ed Perkins on Garnet's Gold
EIFF has a strong history of documentary film programming. Garnet's Gold, Ed Perkins’ lyrical and melancholic film following middle-aged dreamer Garnet Frost and his search for lost treasure, is a 24-carat example. Director Perkins tells us more Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsSecret Master: Chris Fujiwara on the Cinema of Dominik Graf
EIFF artistic director Chris Fujiwara explains why German filmmaker Dominik Graf's artistry shouldn't be overlooked, even if most of his films have been made for the small screen Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
New ReleasesFruitvale Station
The difficulty with dramatising true-life events – particularly incendiary ones from the recent past – is knowing just how much fiction to infuse... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
New Releases
Cheap Thrills
How much money would it take to get you to do something totally depraved, like hack off your own finger? Everyone has their price in E.L. Katz’s t... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
Film EventsScotland Film Event Highlights – June 2014
Nineties nostalgia is in the air as Pulp and Pulp Fiction crop up on your cinema screens this month. Plus there's a screening of Jaws to get you in the mood for that beach holiday you've been looking forward to Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – June 2014
John Carpenter is all over the Northwest this month, with screenings at The Dancehouse and FACT. There's also a world premiere in a city centre office block and a classic comedy screening in the open air Read more »| 02 Jun 2014
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New Releases
Venus in Fur
Roman Polanski returns to the role of provocateur with a deliciously subversive filming of David Ives’ play. Fiddling with gender roles, metatextuality... Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
Interviews
Ae Fond Farewell...? Paul Laverty on Jimmy's Hall
With legendary director Ken Loach reportedly soon to retire from the movie racket, we speak to his long time collaborator Paul Laverty (they've worked together on 11 features) about their new film Jimmy's Hall and both their filmmaking futures Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
New Releases
Jimmy's Hall
It’s not difficult to see what attracted perennial rabble-rousers Ken Loach and Paul Laverty to the tale of rabble-rousing, Church-baiting ac... Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
New Releases
Edge of Tomorrow
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s more memorably titled novel All You Need Is Kill, director Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow is basically a mash-up... Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsSullivan’s Travels
Opening with a film within a film’s ending, director and million dollar talent John L. Sullivan (John McCrea) is looking to abandon the mainstream cine... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
New Releases
Boomerang!
Boomerang!, from 1947, is an early example of 'docu-noir' – a sub-genre in which facts from a real-life incident are used as framework for exploring fi... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
New Releases
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Bryan Singer’s return to the X-Men franchise opens on a familiar movie dystopia: grey skies are patrolled by murderous shape-shifting robots (called se... Read more »| 23 May 2014 -
Cineskinny
The Punk Singer
Kathleen Hanna claims she started a band because no one ever listened to her. It’s safe to say that changed with Bikini Kill. The Punk Singer takes us ... Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
Cineskinny
A Touch of Sin
Three burning cigarettes are used as joss sticks by a killer in an indecorous prayer to his victims' ghosts; just one of the remarkable moments in Jia Zhangk... Read more »| 15 May 2014