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 ReleasesSide Effects
So does Steven Soderbergh’s filmmaking career end with a bang or a whimper? Unfortunately it’s closer to the latter. Out of the genre tombola fro... Read more »| 07 Mar 2013 -
CineskinnyThe Paperboy
It's Florida in 1969 and in the midst of a summer so hot that “God himself must’ve been sweating", a small-town sheriff is murdered. Hillary Van ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2013 -
New Releases
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Let’s not mince words: Hansel and Gretel is not a good movie. But with its shoddiness so clearly telegraphed – from its premise (fit fo... Read more »| 06 Mar 2013 -
New ReleasesRobot & Frank
Frank Langella gives a touching performance in Robot & Frank, a more melancholy little caper than one might at first assume. In the near future, Ol&rsquo... Read more »| 06 Mar 2013 -
Interviews
Role Play: Scott Graham on Shell
We speak to Scott Graham about his debut feature Shell, one of the highlights of Glasgow Film Festival 2013 Read more »| 04 Mar 2013 -
Interviews
Zoey Van Goey's Kim Moore on her score for Hell Unltd
Helen Bigger's influential anti-war film Hell Unltd is being screened at GFT with a specially commissioned score by Kim Moore this month to mark International Women's Day. We spoke to Moore about the project Read more »| 01 Mar 2013
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CineskinnyGFF 2013: Arbitrage
With his moneyed exterior and supreme self-assurance, hedge-fund capitalist Robert Miller (Richard Gere) epitomises the maxim that image is everything; that ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Film Events
Film Event Highlights - March 2013
This month's film highlights include an all-night horror marathon, a screening of philosophical films, the Bootleg Film Festival, and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy back-to-back Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Kuma
Kuma opens with a traditional Turkish wedding, but as events will subsequently underscore, appearances are deceiving. Though ostensibly marrying the young an... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Random Acts
When invited to produce Random Acts, Jacqui Davies stipulated that she was only interested in broadcasting things that were works of art in themselves, and n... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: The Artist and the Model
Set in the French-Spanish border during World War II, The Artist and the Model is an understated, slow-burning tale about inspiration and beauty. Shot in cri... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
Premium Rush
Premium Rush is the story of Wilee, a lawyer turned bike messenger, who is on a mission to deliver an envelope on which a life depends, hotly pursued by... Read more »| 24 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: CineSkinny Awards
The most important awards of the weekend, the CineSkinny's GFF awards... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
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Glasgow Kizz: Big Star and Glasgow
Glasgow Film Festival 2013's closing gala party will feature a tribute to Big Star, with DJ sets from Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and the good folks at Monorail. We take a look at some of the ways Big Star and Glasgow have connected over the years Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: The History of Future Folk
Arriving on our planet to evaluate it for invasion and resettlement, General Trius (d’Aulaire), later called Bill, is seduced by the sounds of music, a... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013