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 Sunshine State of Independence: The Borscht Corporation come to Glasgow Short Film Festival
Down in south Florida a group of filmmakers have been making waves on the US indie film circuit. They go by the name The Borscht Corporation, and Glasgow Short Film Festival are bringing their wild cinematic vision to Scotland for an in depth showcase Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
InterviewsLife During Wartime: Kevin Macdonald on How I Live Now
Kevin Macdonald’s latest fiction film is a darkly romantic drama about a group of young people surviving in war-torn Britain. The Touching The Void director talks about working with his young cast and imagining wartime from an askance teen perspective Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
NewsMark Cousins and Filmhouse tour the UK with Cinema of Childhood season
Edinburgh's Filmhouse and documentary maker Mark Cousins present a very special season exploring the history of children in film, touring the UK from April Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
NewsFilm News: Ben Wheatley on Dr. Who, James McAvoy talks Filth, Jesse Eisenberg to play Lex Luthor
A round-up of film news: Sightseers director Ben Wheatley on directing Peter Capaldi as Dr, Who; James Macavoy talks Filth; Jesse Eisenberg cast as Lex Luthor, plus: a look at the big-budget trailers previewed during the Superbowl Read more »| 05 Feb 2014 -
New ReleasesAn Oversimplification of Her Beauty
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a love story, and it appropriately feels as if it has been made with the heart more than the head. This debut feature ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2014 -
Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – February 2014
Cinema, like love, has many shades. Sometimes it’s all kissing in the rain and romantic meetings at New York landmarks; at other times it’s all joyless sex and projectile vomiting. This month’s film events have both in equal measure Read more »| 03 Feb 2014
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New ReleasesHer
Each of Spike Jonze’s films to date has hinged on a far-fetched premise, but, crucially, they have all possessed an insight and depth of feeling that m... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
New ReleasesDallas Buyers Club
There’s something terribly banal about Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée’s old-fashioned redemption piece about a crooked Texan bigot f... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
NewsThe film world mourns Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor and director Philip Seymour Hoffman has passed away at the age of 46. The film world offers tribute to an actor many considered to be the finest of his generation Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
NewsFilm News: Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem; Guy Ritchie to take on King Arthur?
A round-up of film news: this week we have our minds blown by Christoph Waltz and Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem, and check out rumours of a new Guy Ritchie franchise inspired by King Arthur Read more »| 31 Jan 2014 -
CineskinnyYoung Punks: Lukas Moodysson on GYFF opener We Are the Best!
Glasgow Youth Film Festival opens with a bang – and some dodgy drumming – with We Are the Best!, a joyous celebration of youth, friendship and punk rock. We speak to its mercurial director Lukas Moodysson Read more »| 30 Jan 2014 -
NewsFilm News: Live action Ghost In The Shell plans revealed; first look at James Franco's Child of God
A round-up of film news and casting rumours: Ghost In The Shell live action remake in the works; Wonder Woman to feature in three movies; the latest on Tarantino's beleagured The Hateful Eight; plus: the latest on Star Wars VII Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Banshee Chapter
H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond gets a 21st century revamp in Blair Erickson's solid first feature. When a journalist investigates the disappearance of a ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
New ReleasesBlood Glacier (aka The Station)
“The gates of hell are open. We melted them,” laments Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), a technician working against climate change in the remote German ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Selfish Giant
In this Oscar Wilde-inspired addition to British cinema’s social realist canon, all of its Bradford milieu is in the gutter, but two boys are look... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014