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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Dvd ReviewsHer Private Hell
When a naïve Italian beauty accepts modelling work in 60s London she's drawn into a sleazy world of booze, jazz parties, free loving, and... dirty pictu... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Ozu Collection: The Student Comedies
This box set of four of Ozu's early silent comedies is part of the BFI's ongoing project to release all of the master director's work on dual-format Blu-ray/... Read more »| 09 Feb 2012 -
New ReleasesA Dangerous Method
Where is the danger in A Dangerous Method? This exploration of the relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) sh... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Urbanized
With smutty infographs and high-rise money shots, Urbanized slips the panties down on modern city living. This documentary has no sexy Grand Designs narrator... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
CineskinnyGFF 2012: The Youth of Today
Youth is wasted on the young and the same goes for the Glasgow Youth Film Festival, which has an eclectic programme that will delight all age ranges Read more »| 03 Feb 2012 -
New Releases
The Muppets
Old-fashioned dastardly danger is threatening the, now abandoned, Muppet studios as a maniacally laughing oil tycoon (Chris Cooper) looks set to plunder the ... Read more »| 02 Feb 2012
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New Releases
Bombay Beach
After an outstanding festival journey, a Tribeca World Documentary Award, and praise from Alec Baldwin, music video director Alma Har'el's debut feature Bomb... Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Restless
Gus Van Sant presents an unusual romance in Restless. Annabel Cotton (Wasikowska) sparkles with a curiosity for life in the face of terminal cancer. Enoch Br... Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Sean Durkin’s astonishingly assured debut as writer/director is a haunting meditation on identity, manipulation and abuse. Martha (Olsen), long-since a... Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
Carnage
Roman Polanski's classy farce centres on the petty squabbles of four bourgeois Manhattanites. Following an attack on the Longstreets' (Foster, Reilly) son by... Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Rolling Thunder
With a script written by Paul Schrader, Rolling Thunder is an unlikely cut-and-paste job between a classic 70s meditation on damaged masculinity and a brutal... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Albatross
Leather clad tearaway and wannabe writer Emilia (Findlay) takes a job at a hotel on the South Coast run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. She forms an unl... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
Young Adult
Young Adult is the second collaboration between the creative team behind Juno, and it again displays both their strengths and their weaknesses. Jason Reitman... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
The Descendants
Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) directs his first film in seven years with this charming comedy. Matt King (Clooney), trustee to his extended family's v... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
Cineskinny
Youth in Revolt – Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012
Looking at the programme for GFF 2012 you'd be forgiven for thinking that festivities begin 16 Feb with opening gala Your Sister's Sister, but you'd be wrong. Overlook the cinematic delights of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival at your peril Read more »| 19 Jan 2012