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 ReleasesHyde Park on Hudson
You’ve got to feel for Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney), the lead character and narrator of Hyde Park on Hudson. Not only is her kissing cousin, President ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
CineskinnyThe Eclectic: Caroline Sascha Cogez on her GSFF retrospective
Caroline Sascha Cogez brings her eclectic short films to a retrospective at Glasgow Short Film Festival. The Skinny spoke to this graduate of Super 16, Denmark's punky film school, about her colourful career ahead of her trip to Scotland Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
CineskinnyGFF 2013: Public Enemy No. 1
GFF sure know how to cater for every taste. If last year's Gene Kelly song and dance extravaganza wasn't quite your cup of tea, this year's bullet-filled celebration of everyone's favourite baby-faced gangster, James Cagney, is for you Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
New ReleasesBullhead
In synopsis Michaël R. Roskam’s feature debut is just another gangster tangle of black market drug-peddling, Coen-esque deadpan and unrequited lov... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
Bullet to the Head
There’s something faintly tragic about Sylvester Stallone’s determination to cling to those much beloved macho action sensibilities of the 1980s,... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2013: The Kids are All Right
Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allison Gardner often describes Glasgow Youth Film Festival as the main festival's little sister, but GYFF is growing up fast, and this year offers another stellar lineup aimed towards a youth and family audience Read more »| 25 Jan 2013
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Festivals
The King of Pigs
The King of Pig's brutal animation smoulders but its characters remain flat Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2013: Something Wicked This Way Comes
FrightFest is back in Glasgow. Hold your nerves Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
5 Broken Cameras
Arriving on DVD with the imprimatur of an Oscar nomination, 5 Broken Cameras is a world away from the glamour of the Academy Awards red carpet. Drawing on hu... Read more »| 23 Jan 2013 -
Interviews
Twisted Sisters: An Interview with the Soska Siblings
The Soska siblings take their scalpels to misogyny in the horror genre Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's astounding new film opens with the horrific sounds of 9/11 played over a black screen and it ends with the death of Osama bin Laden; its su... Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
Dvd Reviews
American Mary
Perhaps those willing to endure cold steel against warm flesh for aesthetic self expression are the ultimate fashion victims. Yet twisted twin directors Jen ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
Lincoln
Much has been made in the US press of Daniel Day-Lewis’s decision to adopt a high, reedy voice (instead of a stentorian baritone) to portray sixteenth ... Read more »| 18 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
What Richard Did
In the world of cinema, Richard (Jack Reynor), the 18-year-old title character in Lenny Abrahamson’s hugely impressive third feature, is an anomaly. He... Read more »| 17 Jan 2013 -
New Releases
The Wee Man
This is the hagiography of St Paul – Ferris that is. The Glasgow gangland hall-of-famer whose life is laid out here on celluloid, yet left untarnished ... Read more »| 15 Jan 2013