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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OpinionHero Worship: John Sayles
David Barras is making waves in the indie filmmaking world, with his Edinburgh-set debut feature Electric Man recently screening at this year's Comic Con. He pays tribute here to one of his biggest inspirations, American indie legend John Sayles Read more »| 01 Aug 2012 -
Film EventsFilm Event Highlights – August 2012
From Alien all-nighters to the cinematic poetry of Margaret Tait, these are the film events you should seek out in August Read more »| 30 Jul 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Kosmos
Applied to arthouse films the phrase 'beautifully shot' can make the blood run cold, bringing to mind tedious hours spent in the company of pretty visuals an... Read more »| 26 Jul 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsDelicacy
Delicacy offers two love stories for the price of one: a marriage cut short by a traffic accident, and the tentative relationship between widow Nathalie (Tau... Read more »| 23 Jul 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Airborne
Airborne opens with the UK gripped by severe storms: shop fronts blown out, transport networks gubbed – typical summer weather basically. It’s th... Read more »| 23 Jul 2012 -
New ReleasesSeeking a Friend for the End of the World
Steve Carrell once again does the introverted, white-collar schlub thing alongside a horribly miscast Kiera Knightly as they come to terms with the impending... Read more »| 13 Jul 2012
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Dvd Reviews
License to Drive
In 1988 Corey Haim and Corey Feldman were bigger than high tops and heroin. License to Drive sees the two at their most potent. When 16 year old Les (Haim) f... Read more »| 13 Jul 2012 -
New Releases
Magic Mike
Steven Soderbergh has form as a cinematic tease. Films like Full Frontal, the Sasha Grey-starring Girlfriend Experience and Sex, Lies and Videotapes, his Pal... Read more »| 11 Jul 2012 -
New ReleasesDetachment
When substitute teacher Henry Barthes (Brody) walks into a classroom of troubled teens, we are primed to expect a story of education and redemption, but that... Read more »| 09 Jul 2012 -
New Releases
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Six well-dressed figures stride purposefully down a road in the French countryside. Why are they doing this? What's going on? You don't get many answers in L... Read more »| 05 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
EIFF blog: All Aboard the Night Train
A roundup of Edinburgh International Film Festival blood splattered Night Moves strand Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
EIFF blog: Five Ways EIFF Could Improve for 2013
Five suggestions as to how Edinburgh Film Festival could be even stronger in 2013 Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
EIFF blog: Natural Forces – The Philippine New Wave
As I sit deep within the Cimmerian sweatbox of Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre 2, the past, present and future of Philippine cinema collide. Manuel Conde ... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
EIFF 2012: Here, Then
In a rural Chinese town a young couple sit silently facing each other. It is a good few minutes before sparse words are spoken. The frigid atm... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Festivals
EIFF 2012: California Solo
A powerful, despair-laced central performance from Robert Carlyle elevates Marshall Lewy’s at times ponderous look at an alcoholic former rocker attemp... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012