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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CineskinnyThe 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 EventsFresh 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 -
Dvd ReviewsThe LEGO Movie
Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made a name for themselves by transforming dubious prospects for film adaptations (21 and 22 Jump Street; Cloudy with a ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Labor Day
A change of pace for Jason Reitman, and a near-disastrous one, Labor Day is an earnest attempt to make an old-fashioned romance that can’t take flight ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Rapture
This curio from 1965 features strong performances from screen greats Melvyn Douglas (Ninotchka) and Dean Stockwell (Paris, Texas), but is carried by 15-year-... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014
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Dvd ReviewsJules et Jim
Despite being based on the memories of 74 year old author Henri-Pierre Roché, this iconic account of a doomed love triangle is notable for its rare, y... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
New Releases
Branded to Kill
The film to earn outlaw master Seijun Suzuki his P45, Branded to Kill is the flawed masterpiece of a misunderstood genius. Asked to follow up his stylised cl... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Interviews
Divine Inspiration: Jeffrey Schwarz on I Am Divine
No queer film festival is complete without a sprinkling of Divine. He shows up on cue at this month's POUTfest in John Waters' Hairspray and in Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary I Am Divine. We speak to Schwarz about this larger-than-life icon Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
We Are the Best!
It’s suburban Sweden, 1982, and punk is dead. Two 13-year-old outsiders, Bobo (Barkhammar) and Klara (Grosin), are feeling the loss more than most. Und... Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
Dvd Reviews
Too 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 Releases
Dawn 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 -
Interviews
Hollywood 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 Releases
How 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