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 ReviewsSerpico
As seemingly the only straight-arrow cop in a corrupt-to-the-core NYPD, an increasingly hirsute Al Pacino gives one of his most iconic performances in Serpic... Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
CineskinnyThe Heart of Bruno Wizard
Cultural histories are inevitably filled with the non-descript attempts by the unlucky, untalented and generally pathetic to grasp the attention/fame/securit... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
CineskinnyThe Choice to See: Salvo
Salvo co-director Antonio Piazza waxes lyrical about the meaning and mysteries behind his thoughtful debut Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Based on the bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man – let’s call it that for short – chronicles the fanciful escapa... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears
This bastard child of Argento and Dali had audience members streaming out of its Toronto festival screening, as those expecting something comparable to Berbe... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Driver
Steven Knight's Locke represents an 'anti-genre' of films that uses just one figure to explore the human condition Read more »| 23 Feb 2014
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1939 Continued
We look beyond the Best Picture Oscar nominees that make up GFF's ace Hooray for Hollywood strand and pick some of the other gems from 1939 Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Dance of Reality
For a man with a huge cult following and clear influence on many filmmakers, the Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky has actually made very few film... Read more »| 22 Feb 2014 -
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20 Feet from Stardom
Morgan Neville has roped in an impressive rostrum of superstars as talking heads for this lively music doc – Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Won... Read more »| 22 Feb 2014 -
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Jia Zhangke: Tales of Truth in Modern China
Jia Zhangke's films all comment on the state of modern China; his latest, A Touch of Sin, could be the most controversial yet Read more »| 22 Feb 2014 -
News
Film News: Spongebob Squarepants vs. Watchmen, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, X-Men and more
A round-up of Film News, including a hilarious Spongebob Squarepants / Watchmen mashup, commentary on Interstellar from Matthe McConnaughey and the new X-Men film from Bryan Singer, plus the latest casting rumours and trailers Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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The Lön Rängers – Jessica Oreck on Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboys
Jessica Oreck discusses her unique experience making Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboys Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin is a revenge film filled with enough unpredictability to keep your attention and violence that serves the story rather than being gratuitous &ndash... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
CineskinnyAatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
The Aatsinki brothers, Aarne and Lasse are men of very few words, but even if they were to wax lyrical about their lives as reindeer herders (”poromies... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Salvo
Cutting a scene a little long can render it dull; somehow, elongating it further leads to intrigue. So what of Salvo, a Sicilian hitman tale, which stretches... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014