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 ReviewsVideodrome
In the paranoid Cold War coke comedown of the early 1980s David Cronenberg unleashed this unsettling masterwork, now on Blu-ray. James Wood is Max, a sleazy ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2011 -
New ReleasesThe Artist
It's hard to imagine more of a guaranteed crowdpleaser than The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius' stupendously entertaining homage to silent cinema, which is like... Read more »| 16 Dec 2011 -
OpinionTrailer Trash #3 – Sherlock Holmes 2: Game Of Shadows
It's impossible for Guy Richie to make a decent film, ergo Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows must be bollocks. Its explodey trailer certainly suggests so Read more »| 13 Dec 2011 -
New ReleasesDreams of a Life
On 25 January, 2006, the remains of Joyce Vincent, a 38-year-old former secretary, were found slumped on the couch of her London flat, the telly still blarin... Read more »| 12 Dec 2011 -
Opinion
Trailer Trash #2: New Year's Eve
Garry Marshall, the patron saint of chick flicks, brings the world another candy coated fairytale about love with a cast made up of Hollywood's shiniest – and Robert De Niro. It's enough to make our trailer reviewer puke on his Rudolf jumper Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
New ReleasesPuss in Boots
Shrek's killer kitty spins off into his own fairytale franchise in Dreamworks' Puss in Boots. Antonio Banderas lends his dulcet tones to the feline hero who ... Read more »| 05 Dec 2011
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New Releases
Another Earth
Another Earth sets the momentous event of another planet, identical to our own, looming into view as a backdrop for the personal, introspective tale of a you... Read more »| 02 Dec 2011 -
New Releases
We Have a Pope
There's so much rich comic and dramatic potential in Nanni Moretti's new film that it is simply dismaying to see how wide of the mark it consistent... Read more »| 01 Dec 2011 -
Opinion
2011 in Film: Year of the Scorpion (Jacket)
With another year of cinema almost done and dusted, The Skinny's Film editor looks back over twelve months of movie highs and lows Read more »| 01 Dec 2011 -
New Releases
The Thing
As an inferior prequel to a superior remake, it's dumbfounding as to why the title remains the same on this insulting inclusion to the canon. Helmed by first... Read more »| 30 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
A Year in the Dark: The Films of 2011
The Skinny’s film writers look back over a year of dreary messiah wizards, scrapping robots and a never ending convoy of Avenger warm-up movies to pick 2011’s ten keepers. Daily Telegraph readers be warned: there’s not a stuttering monarch in sight Read more »| 30 Nov 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
The Interrupters
The western was America's great film genre, but the world has moved on. Over recent decades the country has inverted itself and the frontier lives in the inn... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
Superstar in Waiting: Paul Kelly on Lawrence of Belgravia
The music world is a cruel place and talented artists often slip through the pop chart cracks. Paul Kelly has made a film about one such artist: Lawrence, former frontman of Felt and Denim. The Skinny spoke with Kelly ahead of the Scottish premiere Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Film Events
December Film Highlights
The best of Scotland's December film happenings Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
New Releases
Take Shelter
After years of phoning-in his tiresome wild-eyed loon shtick, Michael Shannon finally delivers a performance of genuine depth and power at the centre of Jeff... Read more »| 25 Nov 2011