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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FestivalsInterview: Bryn Higgins and the cast of psycho-drama Unconditional
Bryn Higgins, Christian Cooke and Harry McEntire are the director and two leads of Unconditional, a British psycho-drama that asks, what will one young man do for a chance at true love? Read more »| 16 Aug 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsRumble Fish
When it was released in 1983 Rumble Fish was met with near universal critical incomprehension. It seemed another deliberate step by Coppola on his road to ca... Read more »| 16 Aug 2012 -
New ReleasesKing of Devil's Island
This film sits alongside the Devil’s Island of Henri Charriere’s Papillon, forming an archipelago of punishment and retribution. The settin... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsMarley
"What do Jamaicans love more than a man who's just survived a gunfight?" asks Bob Marley's elegant, dreadlocked lawyer as she recalls the aftermath of the at... Read more »| 10 Aug 2012 -
New Releases
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Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde is a play with a perfect cyclical structure, and it has already inspired one film masterpiece with Max Ophüls' seductively ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2012 -
New Releases
Jackpot
The success of Headhunters suggested an inevitability to Jo Nesbø’s canon being mined for more dark tales to turn into modestly budgeted, easy t... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012
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New Releases
Brave
Pixar takes a turn to fairytale-telling, princess protagonist-leading animation with Brave. Set in the Scottish Highlands, fiery-headed Merida (Kelly MacDona... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
New ReleasesThe Forgiveness of Blood
From Colombian drug-mules in debut Maria Full of Grace to Balkan blood feuds in The Forgiveness of Blood, American director Joshua Marston again uses an out... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Monster Brawl
At some point every horror fan has wondered who'd win if two headline monsters got to duking it out. Writer/director Jesse T. Cook takes that to the next lev... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
Opinion
Reel Talk: In Praise of Film Clubs
The return of Monorail Film Club and the start of Scala Beyond, a six-week nationwide film season dedicated to all forms of cinema exhibition, spell good news for Scottish film fans Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
Opinion
Hero Worship: John Sayles
David Barras is making waves in the indie filmmaking world, with his Edinburgh-set debut feature Electric Man recently screening at this year's Comic Con. He pays tribute here to one of his biggest inspirations, American indie legend John Sayles Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
Film Events
Film Event Highlights – August 2012
From Alien all-nighters to the cinematic poetry of Margaret Tait, these are the film events you should seek out in August Read more »| 30 Jul 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Kosmos
Applied to arthouse films the phrase 'beautifully shot' can make the blood run cold, bringing to mind tedious hours spent in the company of pretty visuals an... Read more »| 26 Jul 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Delicacy
Delicacy offers two love stories for the price of one: a marriage cut short by a traffic accident, and the tentative relationship between widow Nathalie (Tau... Read more »| 23 Jul 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Airborne
Airborne opens with the UK gripped by severe storms: shop fronts blown out, transport networks gubbed – typical summer weather basically. It’s th... Read more »| 23 Jul 2012