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 Reviews
The Bay
Barry Levinson's original plan was to make a documentary detailing the terrible environmental degradation of his beloved Chesapeake Bay on America's east coa... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Alps
"I'll do anything you want." It is a mark of the topsy-turvy world that Yorgos Lanthimos has created in his new film, Alps, that, when a female characte... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
New Releases
Red Dawn
In 1984, the year Orwell prophesied doom, writer-director John Milius took the Cold War to its barely logical conclusion for Red Dawn, imagining a Third Worl... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Cineskinny
Beyond the Hills
Cristian Mungiu established himself with the Palme D’Or-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, a gritty tale of illegal abortion and rape in Communist... Read more »| 08 Mar 2013 -
New Releases
Side Effects
So does Steven Soderbergh’s filmmaking career end with a bang or a whimper? Unfortunately it’s closer to the latter. Out of the genre tombola fro... Read more »| 07 Mar 2013 -
Cineskinny
The Paperboy
It's Florida in 1969 and in the midst of a summer so hot that “God himself must’ve been sweating", a small-town sheriff is murdered. Hillary Van ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2013
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New Releases
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Let’s not mince words: Hansel and Gretel is not a good movie. But with its shoddiness so clearly telegraphed – from its premise (fit fo... Read more »| 06 Mar 2013 -
New Releases
Robot & Frank
Frank Langella gives a touching performance in Robot & Frank, a more melancholy little caper than one might at first assume. In the near future, Ol&rsquo... Read more »| 06 Mar 2013 -
Interviews
Role Play: Scott Graham on Shell
We speak to Scott Graham about his debut feature Shell, one of the highlights of Glasgow Film Festival 2013 Read more »| 04 Mar 2013 -
Interviews
Zoey Van Goey's Kim Moore on her score for Hell Unltd
Helen Bigger's influential anti-war film Hell Unltd is being screened at GFT with a specially commissioned score by Kim Moore this month to mark International Women's Day. We spoke to Moore about the project Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2013: Arbitrage
With his moneyed exterior and supreme self-assurance, hedge-fund capitalist Robert Miller (Richard Gere) epitomises the maxim that image is everything; that ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Film Events
Film Event Highlights - March 2013
This month's film highlights include an all-night horror marathon, a screening of philosophical films, the Bootleg Film Festival, and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy back-to-back Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2013: Kuma
Kuma opens with a traditional Turkish wedding, but as events will subsequently underscore, appearances are deceiving. Though ostensibly marrying the young an... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2013: Random Acts
When invited to produce Random Acts, Jacqui Davies stipulated that she was only interested in broadcasting things that were works of art in themselves, and n... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2013: The Artist and the Model
Set in the French-Spanish border during World War II, The Artist and the Model is an understated, slow-burning tale about inspiration and beauty. Shot in cri... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013