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 ReleasesParadise: 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 -
InterviewsUnsimulated: 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 ReleasesFrom 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 ReviewsOne. 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 Reviews
Runaway 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
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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 -
Cineskinny
Quiet Revolution: Haifaa al-Mansour on Wadjda
"The ultimate goal is just to make a film, not to create conflict with people" – Haifaa al-Mansour Read more »| 18 Jul 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Post Tenebras Lux
Many interpreted Silent Light’s Dreyer-referencing classicism as indicative of a shift in Carlos Reygadas’ methods; a shake-up that would temper ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
Interviews
Persona non Greta: Greta Gerwig on Frances Ha
In the last few years Greta Gerwig has graduated from the queen of the lo-fi mumblecore movement to US indie's most exciting young actor. We speak to the Californian about her brilliant new film Frances Ha Read more »| 15 Jul 2013 -
New Releases
Citadel
With ominous guitar chords, piercing shrieks and howls featuring heavily throughout, Citadel is uncomfortable viewing at the best of times. The film opens wi... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
Frances Ha
Frances (Gerwig) is in freefall. At the grand old age of 27, her hopes of becoming a professional dancer hang by a ballet pump. She’s broke, has no per... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
Cineskinny
Wadjda
Wadjda is the simple tale of a ten year-old girl whose only desire is to buy a bicycle so she can race with her friends. This précis admittedly sugges... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
Festivals
Baltasar Kormákur on The Deep
Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur returns to his home nation for The Deep, a true life tale of survival on the high seas. We spoke to Kormákur while he was in Edinburgh for the city's International Film Festival Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
New Releases
Pacific Rim
Fantasy man Guillermo del Toro’s latest, Pacific Rim, is a large-scale love letter to Japanese sci-fi, but also an accessible blockbuster imbued w... Read more »| 11 Jul 2013