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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InterviewsMovie Løve: Director Mia Hansen-Løve in interview
May sees the release of Goodbye First Love, the third film from Mia Hansen-Løve. The Skinny sat down with the talented director to discuss how she caught the filmmaking bug and her era-spanning narratives Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
New ReleasesHara-kiri: Death of a Samurai
After revitalising the samurai picture with the thrilling 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike's new movie Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai is a change of pace, and a di... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
InterviewsNorthern Lights: A Nation on Film
Scotland’s first ever mass participation film project, Northern Lights, is looking for vignettes about Scottish people's day-to-day lives. The Skinny spoke to filmmaker Nick Higgins, the driving force behind the venture, to find out more Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
New Releases
Goodbye First Love
Mia Hansen-Løve's Goodbye First Love covers the well-worn ground of teenage romance, but it does so with a sensitivity and honesty that makes the subj... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Film EventsFilm Event Highlights – May 2012
Highlights of film events happening in May across Scotland Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
New Releases
American Pie: Reunion
All hail the class of 99, the birth of the MILF and the induction of pie fornication into pop culture. It has been 13 years since the first slice of American... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012
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Dvd ReviewsTwice Around the Daffodils
Produced, written and directed by the team behind the Carry On series and set in a tuberculosis ward, Twice Around the Daffodils (1962) presents an awkward m... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Cineskinny
The Monk
Legendary orator and pillar of the church Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel) has his devotion to God thrown into question by the arrival of Valerio (Déborah Fr... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Cineskinny
Breathing
Non-professional actor Thomas Schubert excells as Roman Kogler, a sullen youth in a juvenile detention centre who must succeed in his new day-release job as ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
Interviews
Director Xavier Gens on The Divide
Xavier Gens speaks to The Skinny about his new film The Divide, a grisly post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror hybrid. Like his previous efforts Frontier(s) and Hitman, it's not one to go to with your granny Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
New Releases
The Divide
The title of Xavier Gens’ gristly post-apocalyptic survival movie is working on a myriad of levels. Firstly, it’s the heavy duty door that separa... Read more »| 16 Apr 2012 -
New Releases
The Cabin in the Woods
Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s deliriously entertaining homage to horror cinema takes a format as old as the hills – teens run into trouble at a ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2012 -
New Releases
Damsels in Distress
Chief damsel in Whit Stillman’s long awaited filmmaking return following some Malickesque downtime is Violet (Gerwig), an aggressively altruistic ... Read more »| 09 Apr 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
It seems ironic that a filmmaker famed for his zero pretence, zero budget exploitation flicks should have such starry disciples, with Jack Nicholson and Ron ... Read more »| 06 Apr 2012 -
News
Edinburgh Science Festival @ Summerhall – Uneasy Worlds
The Skinny previews Summerhall's programme of sci-fi films, which form part of Edinburgh International Science Festival Read more »| 04 Apr 2012