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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CineskinnyLove Is All You Need
Yet another wedding-themed romantic comedy, Susanne Bier’s Love Is All You Need thankfully eschews the crass hi-jinks of its recent predecessors to pro... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
New ReleasesOlympus Has Fallen
Over five flicks of decreasing quality, Die Hard’s John McClane has found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time with great regularity, lucklessl... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
Dvd ReviewsKnightriders
Knightriders opens with a wonderful visual gag. Through a gauzy lens we see a naked Ed Harris awake with his lady friend in sylvan glade. After bathing in th... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
Interviews
Small Pleasures: Sam Meech on A Small Cinema
We all hate the multiplex, its strange odours, its soulless architecture, its noisy patrons and their volcano acne. But what's a film-lover to do? Sam Meech, creator of A Small Cinema, has a solution Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
New ReleasesEvil Dead
Few 80s horrors have escaped the unflinching gaze of the ruthless Hollywood remake machine. But some thought The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi’s scrappy, much-l... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
New Releases
Flying Blind
In a tense world of racial profiling and questionable military ethics lands erotic political thriller Flying Blind, starring Helen McCrory as leading aerospa... Read more »| 12 Apr 2013
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Interviews
Will Anderson on The Making of Longbird
After having his film, The Making of Longbird, selected for dozens of film festivals and winning awards from most of them, Will Anderson crowned off a fantastic year by winning the BAFTA for best animated short. We speak to this talented filmmaker Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
The Collection
A sequel of sorts to The Collector, from 2009, The Collection opens with an entertaining scene in which a gimp-masked serial killer takes out an en... Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Vulgaria
A gross-out comedy from Hong Kong, the well named Vulgaria pushes the boundaries of taste in its dialogue and storyline while coyly keeping what appears... Read more »| 10 Apr 2013 -
New Releases
Simon Killer
Simon, played with considerable nuance by Brady Corbet, is an American neuroscience graduate visiting Paris after being dumped by his girlfriend. His ex... Read more »| 10 Apr 2013 -
Dvd Reviewsmay i kill u?
A bash on the head turns a mild-mannered London bobby into a serial killer, albeit one who only targets those who break the law and agree to be killed. Write... Read more »| 08 Apr 2013 -
New Releases
The 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 Releases
All 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