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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New ReleasesThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The second part of Suzanne Collins’ satire of our celebrity-obsessed, consumerist times hellbent on taking money from celebrity-obsessed, consumerist t... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
InterviewsKing of Controversy: Jahmil X. T. Qubeka on Of Good Report
Jahmil X.T. Qubeka sat down with The Skinny while in Edinburgh for the Scottish premiere of his latest film, Of Good Report, at Africa in Motion. He discussed the controversy surrounding the film and his childhood in apartheid-era South Africa Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Streets of Fire
Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire is 90 minutes of glorious pulp fiction. It opens with two title cards: the first reads ‘a rock‘n’roll f... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
“Dentists are the first to go,” jokes Donald Sutherland’s health inspector, unaware of how horribly right he is, in Philip Kaufman’s ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
New ReleasesComputer Chess
A cursory glance at the new movie from Andrew Bujalski, which centres on a programming tournament taking place at a crummy hotel in the early 80s, where men ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
The Heat
Bridesmaids definitively proved for the umpteenth time to a sexist Hollywood that, yes, women can be funny, and yes, they can be funny without the film desce... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013
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Dvd ReviewsGaslight
Upon acquiring the rights to Patrick Hamilton’s play Gas Light, MGM set about wiping the slate in preparation for their George Cukor-directed, Ingrid B... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
New Releases
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Is the Warmest Colour made history at Cannes this year when its leads, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, shared the Palme d'Or with dir... Read more »| 15 Nov 2013 -
New Releases
In Fear
A selection of great British fears – narrow country roads at night, passive-aggression from strangers, and the spilling of a man’s pint – f... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
New Releases
Of Good Report
Here is the film to put director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka on the map, partly due to its controversy (it was banned in its native South Africa and reinstated in a m... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
FestivalsFuture My Love
Maja Borg's first feature film is a poetic blend of doc, road trip and love story Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
Interviews
Media Circus: Adèle Exarchopoulos on Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Amid a flurry of activity before Blue Is the Warmest Colour’s UK premiere, we sit down with its star Adèle Exarchopoulos to discuss this controversial Palme d’Or-winning film and its even more controversial shoot Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
New Releases
Don Jon
In Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon, the first-time director stars as the beefcake of the title, a cocky stud who has no trouble picking up women, but who stil... Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
Interviews
Man vs Machine: Andrew Bujalski on Computer Chess
Andrew Bujalski talks to us about resurrecting video technology from the 60s to create Computer Chess, the year's most joyously idiosyncratic movie Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
Opinion
Hero Worship: Jacque Fresco
Filmmaker Maja Borg chooses 98-year-old futurist Jacque Fresco as her hero. She admires him so much, in fact, that she's made two films about him Read more »| 06 Nov 2013