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 Lone Ranger
Bloated, hubristic and an awkward mish-mash of wildly conflicting tones, it’s easy to see why US critics lined-up to give Gore Verbinski’s The Lo... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
Neil and Rob Gibbons on writing Alan Partridge's big screen debut
This month Norfolk’s premier broadcaster, Alan Partridge, makes his debut on the big screen in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. We speak to Neil and Rob Gibbons, the writing duo responsible for Partridge's glorious comeback Read more »| 02 Aug 2013 -
New ReleasesOnly God Forgives
While it’s the success of Drive that will stoke most interest in this director/star reunion (drenched like its forebear in slick neon, and with Ryan Go... Read more »| 02 Aug 2013 -
New Releases
Serial Mom
Beverly Sutphin is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and “f*cking nuts!” Queer cinema hero John Waters’ deliriously dark slice of seria... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Film Events
Northwest Film Event Highlights – August 2013
This month, Cricfest proves that cinema has the power to make a sport as boring as cricket compelling, while Picnic Cinema offer up two movies about going nuts in the great outdoors Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Film EventsScotland Film Event Highlights – August 2013
As if Edinburgh didn't have enough festivals happening in August, Filmhouse delivers two more: Beyond Borders Scotland Film Festival and Just Festival. Other highlights include a sober Lindsay Lohan and David Bowie's codpiece Read more »| 31 Jul 2013
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Interviews
Bangkok Fever Dream: Nicolas Winding Refn on Only God Forgives
He's made movies about Vikings, video store clerks and criminals. He made Ryan Gosling an icon. He even directed Geraldine McEwan in Marple. We sit down with the mercurial Nicolas Winding Refn to get the lowdown on his latest film, Only God Forgives Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
The Comedian
Don’t let the title fool you. This character study by newcomer Tom Shkolnik is no laughing matter. For his feature debut, the Israeli-born director exp... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
New Releases
Paradise: Hope
The third film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is the most heartfelt and uplifting of the three, which comes as both a surprise and a blessed relief... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Unsimulated: Travis Mathews on I Want Your Love
Once in a while a film comes along to remind us how conservative the industry really is when it comes to sex on screen. Travis Mathews' I Want Your Love is one such work. The San Francisco-based filmmaker talks to us about explicit cinema Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
New Releases
From Up on Poppy Hill
It’s 1963, and high school student Umi wakes each morning to raise signal flags to the drifting tugboats of postcard-pretty Yokohama. When local boy Sh... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Dressed to Kill
Brian De Palma’s skill as a director is matched by his glorious bad taste. Several filmmakers have had the gall to mine laughs out of serial killer mat... Read more »| 26 Jul 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
One. Two. One
In an Iranian society that places heavy emphasis on beauty regarding a woman’s worth, Ava (Amiri) finds herself the victim of an acid attack to the fac... Read more »| 22 Jul 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsRunaway Train
A surprise contender at the 1986 Academy Awards, Andrei Konchalovsky’s thriller Runaway Train transcends its potentially trashy B-movie premise with co... Read more »| 22 Jul 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Me and You
Taken as a whole, Bernardo Bertolucci’s filmography is testament to his more than passing interest in incest. As a precocious 24-year-old, he made Befo... Read more »| 18 Jul 2013