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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NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 May
In today's Bulletin: The Clash to release 5-disc box set; details from the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Scottish Opera programmes; plus new music from Icarus Line, Madlib, Congo Natty and Dirty Beaches Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
I Wish
Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows (2004) is one of the saddest films ever made about childhood, but his latest, I Wish, feels like the optimistic fli... Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
New ReleasesEpic
Epic feels like a deliberate throwback to children’s adventure films of the 80s and 90s. And not necessarily the good ones – it’s plagued b... Read more »| 21 May 2013 -
Interviews
Myth Making: Neil Jordan on Byzantium
Neil Jordan returns to the vampire sub-genre with Byzantium, an adult fairy tale starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. We spoke to the Irishman at Glasgow Film Festival, where Byzantium had its UK première Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
New Releases
Byzantium
Neil Jordan loves a myth. His best movies (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Company of Wolves) are dreamy fairy tales with one toe in reality. The sensual and... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsGangster Squad
Not much liked by the critics on its theatrical release, Gangster Squad's account of the creation of an extra-legal LAPD team to take down mob boss Mickey Co... Read more »| 20 May 2013
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Dvd ReviewsThe Last Stand
"I'll give the sheriff a call to tell him to get out of the way." When a psychopathic cartel boss is sprung from custody in Las Vegas and races towards the M... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Sacrifice
If there's one thing that we learn from this historical epic from director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine), it is that if revenge is a dish best served co... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
The Unbelievable Truth
Audry feels, and looks, like the heroine of a Nouvelle Vague film who is trapped in the very ordinary surroundings of a Long Island suburb in the late 1980s.... Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
Cineskinny
Something in the Air (Après mai)
Set in 1971, Something in the Air is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s ebullient tribute to the kids who had to follow in the footsteps... Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
New Releases
Fast & Furious 6
Fast & Furious 5 (aka Fast Five) abandoned virtually any semblance of its series’ street racing routes, retooling the blockbuster franchise into an... Read more »| 16 May 2013 -
New Releases
The Liability
The Liability, Craig Vivieros’ second feature following prison drama debut Ghosted, offers enough surprises to raise it above the mire of recent dopey ... Read more »| 16 May 2013 -
New Releases
The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann's latest foray into vintage decadence delivers the director's characteristic flamboyance and romance, and serves as a perfect companion to both ... Read more »| 15 May 2013 -
Opinion
Lost & Found: 70s Hollywood Back in Cinema
This month Park Circus release two forgotten films of the American new wave, Jerry Schatzberg's Scarecrow and Bob Rafelson's The King of Marvin Gardens. We look at both and suggest some other forgotten gems itching to be rediscovered Read more »| 13 May 2013 -
Cineskinny
Youth in Revolt: Olivier Assayas on Something in the Air
Olivier Assayas talks to The Skinny about his new feature Something in the Air (Après Mai), the frustration of politics and his journey into cinema Read more »| 13 May 2013