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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InterviewsReturn to Goth: Simon Oakes explains Hammer Studio's revival
Hammer Studio chief Simon Oakes talks to The Skinny about the British institution's resurrection Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
New ReleasesKeyhole
Guy Maddin’s latest is, loosely, a haunted Odyssey set in a decrepit, (meta)physically imposing mansion and populated by ghosts and gangsters. Its... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
The Sweeney
It’s The Sweeney, son… and it’s nowhere near as bad as you fink it is. Ray Winstone is Regan, snarling and punching his way through a miss... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
New Releases
The Victim
When you've fought killer robots from the future, aliens with acid for blood and flesh-eating zombies, what do you do next? Veteran genre actor Michael Biehn... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Breathing
Roman Kugler (Schubert) is a 19-year old orphan locked up in a juvenile detention facility. As part of the requirements for his parole he is offered a job at... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
InterviewsOut of the Past: Guy Maddin on Keyhole
Guy Maddin's latest film, Keyhole, is a psycho-sexual riff on Homer's The Odyssey by way of film noir and haunted house movies. The Skinny spoke to this most unique of filmmakers Read more »| 04 Sep 2012
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Dvd Reviews
The Aggression Scale
Didn't you sometimes wish when you watched Home Alone that Macaulay Culkin would get a little more psycho? Make the burglars really suffer? Make them bleed? ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Interviews
Genre 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 Reviews
Shooters
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 Reviews
War 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 -
Festivals
Tabu
Tabu explores the interlaced nexuses between memory, cinema and fable Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsAnton 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