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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InterviewsGenre Hopper: Rian Johnson on Looper
Three movies under his belt and Rian Johnson is proving a tricky filmmaker to pin down. The Skinny caught up with the genre hopping director to get the lowdown on his latest film, Looper, which opens this year's Toronto International Film Festival Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsShooters
The antithesis of the all too common ‘balletic’ form of cinema violence, Dan Reed’s 2001 feature Shooters is a raw slice of brutality set i... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsWar Trilogy
Aleksandr Dovshenko may not carry the same name recognition as contemporaries like Sergei Eisenstein or Dziga Vertov, but eighty years on his best work remai... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
Lawless
John HIllcoat’s thriller, from a messy script by Nick Cave, charts the exploits of a family of Virginian bootleggers during Prohibition as their operat... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Film Events
Film Event Highlights – September 2012
GFT gets naughty with Brando and a stick of butter; Cameo is tearing film fans apart with a screening of a toxic bad movie; Hitch is still thrilling Filmhouse; Orson Welles is confounding DCA; and LCD Soundsystem go out on a high Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
FestivalsTabu
Tabu explores the interlaced nexuses between memory, cinema and fable Read more »| 03 Sep 2012
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Dvd Reviews
Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
Anton Corbijn: Inside Out follows the prolific Dutch photographer and filmmaker (Control, The American) whose unique visual style helped to define an era in ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Festivals
Berberian Sound Studio
Director Peter Strickland toys with the audience as a cat would with a mouse in this mysterious film dealing in horror and nightmares Read more »| 27 Aug 2012 -
Opinion
Five Great Movie Impostors
To celebrate the recent brace of movies dealing in deception, here are five great movie impostors to mull over Read more »| 24 Aug 2012 -
Festivals
Shadow Dancer
A taut, sinewy thriller from Man on Wire director James Marsh Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Festivals
The Imposter
Deception and denial go hand-in-hand in this haunting documentary Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Thom Tuck Goes Straight-to-DVD
The sadist in me wants to meet Thom Tuck on the last day of the Fringe - just to check for any remaining vital signs. The former Penny Dreadful has embarked ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
New Releases
Take This Waltz
The standout moment in Take This Waltz, the second feature from Canadian actor-turned-director Sarah Polley, takes place on a cheesy fairground rid... Read more »| 16 Aug 2012 -
Festivals
Interview: 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 Reviews
Rumble 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