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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FestivalsEIFF 2013: Svengali
One of Svengali’s running jokes is that protagonist Dixie – a postman from rural Wales who ups-sticks for London hoping to nurture a distinctly u... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
FestivalsEIFF 2013: This Is Martin Bonner
Martin Bonner (Eenhoorn) is at a lull in his life. An Aussie expat, he finds himself leaving his grown-up east-coast family and moving to Reno, Nevada for th... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: uwantme2killhim?
The internet is a dangerously empowering tool in this true story, which has been knit into a taut thriller by British director Andrew Douglas. Set in 2003, u... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
New ReleasesThe Act of Killing
Few films have explored the moral implications of murder as creatively and powerfully as The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary introduce... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
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After Tony Manero and Post Mortem assayed General Pinochet’s dictatorship through the lenses of discomforting murder drama and icy satire respecti... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Magic Magic
Writer-director Sebastián Silva here channels early Polanski to produce a beguiling and gut-wrenching psychological horror for the Diablo Cody generat... Read more »| 23 Jun 2013
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EIFF 2013: We Are the Freaks
Following three teenage friends on a night out in 1990, after Thatcher has just stepped down, We Are the Freaks opens with self-reflexive narration that posi... Read more »| 23 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: From Tehran to London
Mania Akbari’s film is dedicated to “all those filmmakers in Iran, who have served a prison sentence and the ones who are still in prison.”... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
FestivalsEIFF 2013: National Security
What can be more worthy than a film highlighting the cruelty of torture? And what more torturous than almost two hours as witness to such soulless barbarity?... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: The Berlin File
With the hyped-up, swaggering gait of a gunslinger on speed, Korean action supremo Ryoo Seung-wan delivers East meets West double agent intrigue in The Berli... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF: People's Park
Private lives of the Peoples Republic of China are played out in the public space of a Chengdu park and recorded as historical document in Libbie D Cohn and ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
New Releases
This Is the End
This Is the End is like a Who’s Who of contemporary American comedy, with almost everyone who has graced an Apatow production in the past decade making... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
New Releases
World War Z
World War Z is based on Max Brooks’ bestselling novel of the same name, a globe-trotting, multi-perspective document of a zombie apocalypse, rife with ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
FestivalsEIFF 2013: A Long Way from Home
Among things a young woman never wants to hear from a septuagenarian male acquaintance, “You can come over and use our pool any time” ranks highl... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Breathe In
Music teacher Keith (Pierce) is fighting suburban suffocation. He sneaks guilty cigarettes and regretful pauses as he considers what might have been if he ch... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013