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 ReleasesSafety Not Guaranteed
It's a pleasure to see the talented Aubrey Plaza being given a long overdue starring role, but what a shame Safety Not Guaranteed is such a dud. She plays a ... Read more »| 19 Dec 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsElectric Man
Electric Man is a micro-budget feature shot in Edinburgh which follows Jason and Wolf, two hapless comic shop owners, on the trail of a rare and valuable com... Read more »| 14 Dec 2012 -
New Releases
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The sparkiest scene in Peter Jackson’s eagerly anticipated return to Middle Earth is a battle of wits between Gollum (Lord of the Rings' tragic, ring-c... Read more »| 13 Dec 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsBaytown Outlaws
The Baytown Outlaws is one of those films that come trailing the epithet "Tarantino-esque." The common denominator here is a cast of lowlifes waving their gu... Read more »| 12 Dec 2012 -
New Releases
Love Crime
Love Crime is the last film Alain Corneau made before his death, and it initially looks like it might act as a fitting swansong. Kristin Scott Thomas and Lud... Read more »| 10 Dec 2012 -
New Releases
Chasing Ice
Is it possible to take a picture of climate change? Ask James Balog. Back in the more innocent pre-crash noughties, this National Geographic photographer fou... Read more »| 10 Dec 2012
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New Releases
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
With its sparkling divas and muscled he-men, Hollywood in its heyday was a barely closeted champion of queer culture. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, ... Read more »| 10 Dec 2012 -
Interviews
Malik Bendjelloul interview: The Man Who Didn't Know He Was Famous
The Skinny talks with Malik Bendjelloul, the director of Searching for Sugar Man, about the difficulties of filming that rarest of beasts, a rock musician who doesn't want to talk about himself Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsZombie Flesh Eaters
Fulci's legendary gore-filled video nasty finally shambles on to a UK Blu-ray release just in time for Christmas. Make no mistake, this is one for the zombie... Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Ninja Scroll
After making short - and bloody - work of a squad of ninjas, a monstrous ogre takes the sole survivor, a female ninja named Tagero, back to his lair to have his wicked way with her. Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
New Releases
Air Doll
A Japanese salaryman returns to his ramshackle apartment every night to the welcoming, if chilly, embrace of his inflatable sex doll, with whom he has an elaborate domestic routine. Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
New Releases
Seven Psychopaths
The fact that the central character in Seven Psychopaths is an Irish writer named Marty should suggest the kind of film we're dealing with here. McDonagh's s... Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
New Releases
Gremlins
On a sales call to a gloomy Chinatown cliché emporium, Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) obtains a mogwai, a wittering Furby/shih-tzu hybrid as Christmas g... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
InterviewsChristmas Slay: Joe Dante on Gremlins
With the high street a cacophony of Jingle Bells covers and TV a vomit of Xmas specials, this month's re-release of Gremlins offers 100 minutes of anarchic respite from the insanity of the season. The Skinny spoke to its director, Joe Dante Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Film Events
Brief Encounters: The Joy of Six
How do you solve a problem like a short film? New British Cinema Quarterly has a solution. The Skinny speaks to Dan Sully and Will Jewell, two directors taking part in NBCQ's initiative to bring the best of British short film to the whole of the UK Read more »| 03 Dec 2012