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 ReleasesLe Havre
Le Havre is Aki Kaurismäki's first film made in France since 1992's La vie de bohème, and it acts as a kind of loose sequel to that picture,... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
OpinionReel Talk: Comic Marvels
Two marvellous comedies are released in April: Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre (6 Apr) and Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress (27 Apr). Film... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2012: Bonsái
Chilean directing talent Cristián Jiménez's second feature film is one for the bookish. Bonsai's protagonist Julio (Diego Noguera) is more of a... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsEncounters
This new collection from the BFI presents four classic short films of gay cinema, rescued from obscurity, cleaned up and given some love. The 1960s and 70s w... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Mother and Child
Mother and Child steps into the lives of middle-aged Karen (Annette Bening), once a teen mother, her estranged, solitary, and fiercely independent daughter E... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
News
Edinburgh International Science Festival: Future Human – the movies
What does it mean to be human, past, present and future? The sci-fi films in the Future Human strand of Edinburgh International Science Festival attempt to answer this question Read more »| 30 Mar 2012
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Cineskinny
GFF 2012: This Is Not a Film
In 2009, Iranian director Jafar Panahi was arrested for supporting anti-Ahmadinejad protests; in 2010, he was arrested a second time, sentenced to six years ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2012 -
Film Events
April Film Highlights
Highlights of film happenings across Scotland Read more »| 28 Mar 2012 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2012: Babycall
Noomi Rapace (Millennium Trilogy) turns in another ferociously intense performance as Anna, a traumatised mother relocated with her young son to escape an ab... Read more »| 27 Mar 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Crows Zero
Suzuran Senior High School for Boys is notorious as 'the toughest in the nation', an educational establishment where the droog-like pupils indulge in perpetu... Read more »| 26 Mar 2012 -
Interviews
Rivals: Rangers & Celtic – shades of green, blue and grey
Glasgow's notorious Old Firm is profiled in the first in a series of documentaries looking at rivalries across the globe. We spoke to journalist Kev Kharas, the host of Rivals: Rangers & Celtic Read more »| 23 Mar 2012 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2012: The Kid With a Bike
All you really need to know about the Dardenne brothers' new film is that it concerns a kid and his bike. Watching the work of this extraordinary filmmaking ... Read more »| 22 Mar 2012 -
Cineskinny
GFF 2012: Wild Bill
Treading the line between gritty social realism and slick gangster action, Wild Bill brings drugs, guns and family drama to Stratford, London. This directori... Read more »| 22 Mar 2012 -
Opinion
Outlaw Immortal: The world of Roger Corman
To coincide with the release of Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, we profile the King of the Bs, Roger Corman Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Chung Kuo China
In 1972, before impending Sino hegemony and fear of the day the tanks roll down Princes Street, China was a secretive state hidden behind a bamboo curtain. Y... Read more »| 14 Mar 2012