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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Film EventsScotland Film Events Highlights - December 2013
Yes, it’s nearly Chrimbo, but thankfully it’s not all dewy-eye nostalgia on this month's film horizon. The GFT serve gothic horror, the Cameo screen some non-festive classics and Nordic Film Festival proves the regions home to more than just Santa Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
New Releases
Kill Your Darlings
The Beats have had a resurgence of late; Hollywood presumably believes their vibrant defiance can strike a chord with this century’s more indolent... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
New Releases
Nebraska
All of Alexander Payne’s best and worst attributes are on full display in Nebraska. As Woody (Dern) takes a road trip to collect the million-dollar pri... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsBetty Blue
Béatrice Dalle’s pouty visage became one of the 80s’ most recognisable images after sizzling and shrieking her way through Jean-Jacques Be... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsHeaven's Gate
Its notoriously troubled production may have passed into legend, but Heaven’s Gate has finally emerged from its own tangled history to be regarded as a... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
FestivalsLeviathan
Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s non-narrative, anthropological collaboration – both a documentary and an abstract horror film – depicts the m... Read more »| 22 Nov 2013
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New Releases
Parkland
Released on the 50th year since JFK’s assassination, this ensemble drama takes place over the days surrounding the murder, concerning itself with the e... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
New Releases
The 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 Releases
Computer 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 -
Dvd Reviews
Gaslight
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