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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Film EventsOctober Film Highlights
As the trees begin to turn various shades of red, so too do our cinema screens with brains, intestines and blood being gratuitously splattered as horror fans... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
OpinionThe Church of Kevin Smith
The unconventional release of Kevin Smith's new film Red State has caused a bit of a brouhaha stateside. We see what all the fuss is about Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
Film EventsAll Night Horror Madness 3!
Matt Palmer brings another slice of old-school horror to the Cameo with the third All Night Horror Madness! Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
New Releases
Melancholia
It's not much of a spoiler to say that Melancholia is a film about the end of the world. The movie opens with a gorgeous series of oblique images, culminatin... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Interviews
Interview: Ewen Bremner on Perfect Sense
Glasgow set sci-fi Perfect Sense makes its way to cinemas this month. We spoke to one of its stars, Ewen Bremner, back in June following the film's UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
New Releases
The Green Wave
Using a vivid collage of animations, interviews and source footage, The Green Wave explores the pro-Mousavi protests that followed Ahmadinejad’s &lsquo... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011
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New Releases
Drive
Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher trilogy, Valhalla Rising) teams up with Ryan Gosling to produce a taut, ferocious and glossy homage to the seedy c... Read more »| 23 Sep 2011 -
New Releases
When China Met Africa
Napoleon once said, “China is a sleeping giant but when she wakes she will shake the world.” Capturing this rising titan’s strides into Afr... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
New Releases
Crazy, Stupid, Love
There's a moment in Crazy, Stupid, Love where a plot revelation is so beautifully timed it almost redeems the sheer phoniness of what has gone before, but th... Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
New ReleasesBlood in the Mobile
Blood in the Mobile is a film of contrasts. The scorched heat and violence of Africa juxtaposes sharply with the glacial serenity of the Finnish Nokia HQ, al... Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
As If I Am Not There
Samira is a young woman from Sarajevo who moves to a tiny village to take up a post as a supply teacher. It is her first job and her first time away from her... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Man Of Aran
Not a new release but a recent discovery here at The Skinny's DVD reviews, this disc accompanies the British Sea Power album of the same name and features a ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
My Voyage to Italy
Martin Scorsese’s four-hour expedition through Italian Cinema 101 is well-motivated, with the director and renowned cinephile aiming to redress the Hol... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
New ReleasesYou Instead
You Instead attempts to capture the sights, sounds and smells of Britain's most rambunctious music festival, T in the Park. For the most part, it’s suc... Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
New Releases
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré’s labyrinthine, weighty tome returns as Tomas Alfredson’s intricate yet lean drama – producing one of the films of the... Read more »| 15 Sep 2011