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 Crash Reel
The Crash Reel, Lucy Walker’s compelling new documentary, has it all: sports rivalry, You’ve Been Framed-style carnage, family drama, a... Read more »| 30 Sep 2013 -
Film EventsThis is Madchester: Grimmfest 2013
The biggest UK genre festival outside of That London is back to bring a little bit of horror, a touch of ickiness and a dollop of good old-fashioned strangeness to Manchester Read more »| 27 Sep 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Last American Virgin
A near shot-for-shot remake of his cult Israeli coming-of-ager, Boaz Davidson’s The Last American Virgin is less a movie, more a succession of skits se... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsLa Notte
Has any director ever been as adept at exploring the spaces that exist between people as Michelangelo Antonioni? His 1961 film, La Notte, is the story of a m... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Douglas Sirk's penultimate film is something of an anomaly in his body of work, but it's also perhaps the most personal and interesting film he ever made. A ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
New Releases
Filth
Bruce ‘the Stallion’ Robertson: alcoholic, drug addict, compulsive liar, amoral sociopath, sexual pervert – and senior Detective Sergeant. ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013
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Festivals
Mister John
This cinematic enigma opens with reflections dissolving into one another on the surface of a lake. And like those merging images the film shows a distorted ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Twixt
Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), a “bargain-basement Stephen King”, is visiting a small, studiedly eerie town to sign copies of his latest book. Five... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
New Releases
Cold Comes the Night
Alice Eve bids to be taken seriously by playing downtrodden single mum and half-a-horse town motel owner Chloe. Under the protection of bent copper Billy (Lo... Read more »| 20 Sep 2013 -
Festivals
Identity in Flux: Aidan Gillen on Mister John
Aidan Gillen discusses his performance in Mister John, the enigmatic and bracingly original new film from Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy Read more »| 20 Sep 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Hawking
“Imagine coming to the end of questions,” expresses Mary Hawking – younger sister of cosmologist Stephen – towards the end of this ep... Read more »| 19 Sep 2013 -
Interviews
Screening the Obscene: Irvine Welsh on Filth
Ahead of its big screen adaptation starring and produced by James McAvoy, we speak to Irvine Welsh about his third novel Filth, a delightful tale of a dirty copper and his foul-mouthed tapeworm Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
New Releases
Kelly + Victor
Adapted from Niall Griffiths' novel of the same name, Evans' debut feature follows the perilously intense relationship between two Liverpudlian twenty-someth... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
New Releases
The Artist and the Model
Best known for fluffy Oscar-winner Belle Epoque (and more recently, Chico and Rita’s vibrant jazz animation), The Artist and the Model presents a more ... Read more »| 13 Sep 2013 -
New Releases
In a World...
Actress Lake Bell makes her feature writing and directing debut with this funny ensemble piece set within and around the world of voice-over artists. Carol S... Read more »| 12 Sep 2013