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 ReleasesI'm So Excited!
After making an unsettling and memorable foray into thriller territory with The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar’s new film feels like a consciou... Read more »| 29 Apr 2013 -
New ReleasesGimme the Loot
In Adam Leon’s debut feature, two teenaged graffiti artists, Malcolm (Hickson) and Sofia (Washington), attempt to leave their mark on an iconic monumen... Read more »| 29 Apr 2013 -
Film EventsNorthwest Film Event Highlights – May 2013
This month’s film highlights include two music documentaries and a music mockumentary, some exploitation double-bills and the latest Star Trek movie on a screen the size of a double-decker bus Read more »| 26 Apr 2013 -
Film Events
Scotland Film Event Highlights – May 2013
Glasgow Film Theatre brings the best worst movies available to its screens this month, Institut Français d'Ecosse have a season of Gallic film noir and Dundead returns to DCA with a heaven-sent De Palma retrospective Read more »| 26 Apr 2013 -
New Releases
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3 features a Christmas setting, a struggling protagonist caught in strange team-ups, two heroes sneaking into a dock for an action set piece, b... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Cineskinny
Bernie
Indie darling Richard Linklater returns home with Bernie, a bizarre true story of murder and community spirit in a small Texan town. Jack Black (in superb, r... Read more »| 19 Apr 2013
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New ReleasesRebellion
The seventh feature from director Mathieu Kassovitz, Rebellion sees the maker of La Haine return to more pointedly political ground following English languag... Read more »| 18 Apr 2013 -
Cineskinny
Love 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 Releases
Olympus 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 Reviews
Knightriders
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 Releases
Evil 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 -
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 ReviewsThe 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