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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Film EventsFilm Event Highlights – December 2012
It's December, and that means some familiar films popping up in cinemas across the country. It's a Wonderful Life, a Christmas staple, is showing throughout ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsCode Name: Geronimo - The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
Airing in the US just days before last month’s election, SEAL Team 6 (as it was then titled) caused a minor outrage, attracting accusations that distri... Read more »| 01 Dec 2012 -
New Releases
Floating Weeds
The rootless beings of the title are a performance troupe in post war Japan, moving perpetually through the country as happy wanderers. Returning to a rural ... Read more »| 30 Nov 2012 -
New ReleasesGate of Hell
This 1953 Japanese classic is a banquet of visual delights, a tapestry of vibrant colour, which regrettably becomes frayed at the edges. Morito is a mid-rank... Read more »| 30 Nov 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Polisse
A vérité-style drama based on the daily work of Paris’s ‘Brigade de protection des mineurs,’ Polisse’s treatment o... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
New ReleasesSightseers
Ben Wheatley’s absurdist Sightseers plays out like a trainspotters' Badlands. There's great wit at play as we follow simmering sociopath Chris and... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012
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New Releases
End of Watch
Writer/director David Ayer returns to his well-worn law enforcement stomping ground with End of Watch, a foul-mouthed, boneheaded and really quite unpleasant... Read more »| 23 Nov 2012 -
New Releases
Laurence Anyways
Xavier Dolan certainly isn't lacking in confidence. Fortunately, he has the talent to match it. The young director's third feature, Laurence Anyways, ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2012 -
New Releases
Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook is a romantic comedy about two bipolar screw-ups trying to win a dance competition. Chris Tucker is in a supporting role. It should b... Read more »| 15 Nov 2012 -
New Releases
Amour
We're used to Michael Haneke films being difficult viewing experiences, but Amour is something different from this great filmmaker. Often accused of being co... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
InterviewsCarry on Killing: Director Ben Wheatley on Sightseers
Ben Wheatley was kind enough to take some time out from editing new picture A Field In England to be quizzed by The Skinny on this month’s Sightseers, and what he’s got coming up next Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
Opinion
New New Hollywood: From the Margins to the Mainstream
With new releases this month from David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson, key figures in the unofficial mid-90s renaissance of American film, The Skinny looks back at their generation's wave of subversive upstarts, the New New Hollywood Read more »| 01 Nov 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Margin Call
"Remember this day, boys, remember this day." When a young analyst at a sleek, Wall Street investment firm discovers that the mathematical model they have ba... Read more »| 31 Oct 2012 -
Interviews
Crest of a Wave: Paul Thomas Anderson on The Master
Outside of superhero franchises, no other feature release of 2012 reached the levels of anticipation of The Master. With some critics ready to call endgame on the medium of film, we need directors like Paul Thomas Anderson more than ever Read more »| 30 Oct 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
A Simple Life
In perhaps the ultimate example of method acting, Andy Lau has spent his life as godson to Deanie Ip before playing opposite her in a dramatic role that mirr... Read more »| 30 Oct 2012