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.
-
New ReleasesThe Place Beyond the Pines
While the brutal intimacy of Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine owed a great deal to Cassavetes, this epic follow-up of family, fate and corruption... Read more »| 08 Apr 2013 -
Interviews
Harmony Korine on Spring Breakers: “I’m a soldier of cinema”
If you thought the teens in Kids were horned-up wait til you get a load of Spring Breakers' fresh-faced hedonists. We speak to Harmony Korine about his Day-Glo "pop-poem" to the annual American-teen tradition Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
New ReleasesAll Things To All Men
With a twisty plot involving dodgy diamonds, drug deals and double crosses galore, All Things to All Men strains hard to deliver on a suspenseful s... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
New Releases
First Position
Adopting a similar format to 2002's spelling bee doc Spellbound, First Position is a gripping documentary that follows seven children between the ages o... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Cineskinny
A Late Quartet
Approaching their 25th anniversary concert, a world-renowned string quartet find their world disrupted by the news that cellist Peter (Walken) has been diagn... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Interviews
Borderline-Nuts: Antonio Campos and Brady Corbet on Simon Killer
The Skinny speaks to Antonio Campos and Brady Corbet, the director and star of Simon Killer, a twisted psychological odyssey set in a nightmarish Paris Read more »| 05 Apr 2013
-
New Releases
Promised Land
Fracking is a hot-button issue, but you wouldn't know it from Promised Land, which barely stirs any passions as it trundles through a mundane plot. Matt Damo... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsZaytoun
A cross-conflict road movie set during the 1982 Lebanese war, Zaytoun gets plenty right. For one, it looks fantastic, with cinematographer Dan Laustsen lensi... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
New Releases
Thursday Till Sunday
Thursday Till Sunday is the story of a family road trip, and we experience much of it from the perspective of 10-year-old Lucía (the excellent Santi A... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Interviews
Cop and Robber: Derek Cianfrance on The Place Beyond the Pines
New American drama The Place Beyond the Pines reunites director Derek Cianfrance with his Blue Valentine lead Ryan Gosling. Cianfrance speaks to The Skinny about this epic tale of fate and fatherhood Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
New Releases
Dark Skies
If Dark Skies’ opening credits didn’t tell you it was produced by the people who brought you the Paranormal Activity franchise and Insidious... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – April 2013
This month’s movie highlights include the life and death of JC, a trio of horror double-bills and Pedro Almodóvar’s return to his raunchy 80s roots Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
New Releases
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Aimed squarely at Middle America but with no audience in mind, The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a modern Pinocchio story so boring it makes We Bought a Zoo l... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
Cineskinny
Spring Breakers
This candy-coloured delirium opens with a wet and wild montage of well endowed young women gyrating in slow motion as Neanderthal jocks cascade cheap lager o... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
New ReleasesG.I. Joe: Retaliation
Jon M. Chu (Step Up 2: The Streets) has managed to produce something even more stupid than Stephen Sommers’ trashy first cinematic outing for Hasbro&rs... Read more »| 27 Mar 2013