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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InterviewsRivals: Rangers & Celtic – shades of green, blue and grey
Glasgow's notorious Old Firm is profiled in the first in a series of documentaries looking at rivalries across the globe. We spoke to journalist Kev Kharas, the host of Rivals: Rangers & Celtic Read more »| 23 Mar 2012 -
CineskinnyGFF 2012: The Kid With a Bike
All you really need to know about the Dardenne brothers' new film is that it concerns a kid and his bike. Watching the work of this extraordinary filmmaking ... Read more »| 22 Mar 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Wild Bill
Treading the line between gritty social realism and slick gangster action, Wild Bill brings drugs, guns and family drama to Stratford, London. This directori... Read more »| 22 Mar 2012 -
OpinionOutlaw Immortal: The world of Roger Corman
To coincide with the release of Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, we profile the King of the Bs, Roger Corman Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsChung Kuo China
In 1972, before impending Sino hegemony and fear of the day the tanks roll down Princes Street, China was a secretive state hidden behind a bamboo curtain. Y... Read more »| 14 Mar 2012 -
CineskinnyOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a film of two halves, and regrettably, one half is so much richer than the other, which leaves Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest pic... Read more »| 12 Mar 2012
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Bill Cunningham New York
For four decades New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham has cruised the Big Apple on his Schwinn bicycle like a fashionista superhero. His batcave ... Read more »| 12 Mar 2012 -
New Releases
John Carter
Let me tell you a story about a man with the initials JC. True of heart, he came from the heavens and used his superhuman powers to unite a humble people, gi... Read more »| 09 Mar 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
The Saragossa Manuscript
In the midst of a battle in the Napoleonic Wars two opposing soldiers find and begin to read a manuscript together. It purports to be an account by a Walloon... Read more »| 08 Mar 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Weekend
There are moments in life when you suddenly connect with someone and it changes your whole world. But even today it's rare to see that in a film about two me... Read more »| 06 Mar 2012 -
Opinion
Trailer Trash #4: The Amazing Spider-Man
Batman's done it, Superman's done it, heck the Hulk's done it twice. Hollywood loves a reboot. We look at the trailer for the latest franchise to rip it up and start again Read more »| 05 Mar 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Death of a Superhero
A refreshingly unsentimental account of a teenager dealing with terminal cancer, Death of a Superhero sees Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster, in an excellent tu... Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
New Releases
Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
The cinema release of Spielberg's Tintin was met with predictable howls of outrage from certain quarters - mostly middle-aged, male Guardian writers - for wh... Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
The Sniper
"Experts can coexist." The final, summarising line of dialogue in the The Sniper suggests the dead hand of China's Communist Party at work in this story of r... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Special Forces
To watch Special Forces is to go to war with your own incredulity. Individual tolerances for cliché are rigorously tested as an elite team of French s... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012