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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NewsFilm News: Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema returns; Joseph Gordon-Levitt linked to The Sandman movie
Film news: The Hippodrome announces it's Festival Of Silent Cinema for 2014; BAFTA Scotland call out for entries in the New Talent Awards; Joseph Gordon-Levitt attached to The Sandman adaptation; Shia LaBeouf is a plagiarist; plus the latest trailers Read more »| 18 Dec 2013 -
NewsFilm News: RIP Peter O'Toole; street food at GFF; more news on the Terminator reboot
A roundup of today's film news: Peter O'Toole passes away aged 81; Game of Thrones' Emilia 'Khaleesi' Clark to play Sarah Connor in Terminator reboot; Street Food Cartel comes to GFF, plus the first trailer for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar Read more »| 16 Dec 2013 -
New ReleasesAll Is Lost
Although many were impressed with J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call, it’s doubtful anybody thought he was capable of a film like All Is Lost.... Read more »| 16 Dec 2013 -
Festivals
Film News: More prize money for EIFF; ¡Viva! Festival line-up announced
A roundup of film news: EIFF increases its prize funds; Manchester's ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin-American Film Festival and Glasgow Youth Film Festival programmes unveiled, Spiderman set for two spin-off movies; plus: the latest trailers Read more »| 13 Dec 2013 -
News
Film News: Godzilla returns; Creative Scotland seeks new executive; Simon Pegg joins Monty Python
A roundup of film news: Creative Scotland seeks a new Director of Film & Media; Simon Pegg joins the cast of a new Monty Python project; plus trailers for the new Paranormal Activity and Godzilla outings Read more »| 12 Dec 2013 -
New Releases
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Though still brimming with some narrative bloat, the second Hobbit feature is overall a considerable improvement on its meandering, tonally scattered predece... Read more »| 11 Dec 2013
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News
Film News: Lost Peter Sellers film found in skip, Terminator reboot gets a title, and more
A lost Peter Sellers movie found in a skip to screen at Southend Film Festival; the Terminator franchise gets a reboot; Ben Whishaw to play Freddie Mercury; plus trailers for Jupiter Ascendant and Bad Words Read more »| 11 Dec 2013 -
News
Film News: X-Men Apocalypse announced, Disney acquires Indiana Jones, and more
Bryan Singer announces another new X-Men film; Disney acquires the Indiana Jones franchise; the new Godzilla remake goes viral, plus trailers for Mandela - The Long walk To Freedom and Walking With The Enemy Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
DVD Christmas Gift Guide
A DVD isn't just for Christmas, it's for life (or at least until all physical media becomes completely obsolete). Don't just make a mad dash to HMV's bargain bucket this year – consider below the cream of the crop of DVD and Blu-ray releases in 2013 Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Films of 2013: Girl Power
Is this the year women got a fair shake in movies? Our top ten suggests a tentative yes: from Wadjda's pint-sized rebel and Zero Dark Thirty's ferocious CIA agent to Frances Ha's loveable flake, 2013's best films were dominated by great female characters Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Interviews
Fresh Meat: Rough Cut Set Visit
In a forest in the Lake District a giant lactating worm has enslaved a town and is eating hitchhiking teenagers. Trickster Jamie Shovlin lets us see behind the scenes of his latest meta mind-fuck Rough Cut, a documentary about a film that never was Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
New Releases
The Patience Stone
After her astonishing work in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, Golshifteh Farahani’s performance in The Patience Stone confirms her status as on... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Staff Do, or Staff Don't? Why Not Stay at Home with a Comedy DVD...
The Christmas period is jam-packed with comedy nights, which are in turn jam-packed with office parties; which is precisely why you should avoid them like the plague, argues our Comedy ed Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – December 2013
‘Tis the season to gorge on movies you’ve seen a million times before, but this month’s film calendar isn’t all nostalgia. Cornerhouse serve a slice of alternative Yuletide cinema, while San Diego’s premier newsreader pitches up at MediaCityUK Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
New Releases
Big Bad Wolves
Israeli writer-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado followup their 2010 debut Rabies with another tar-black comic horror. While investigating a seri... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013