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 ReviewsPunishment Park
Through a combination of radical politics and formal experimentation British director Peter Watkins has pushed the limits of the docudrama since the 1960s. A... Read more »| 11 Jan 2012 -
OpinionFive Slices of Cinematic Cuisine
You may have noticed that the January issue of The Skinny is a Food & Drink special. Film joins this perverse anti-detox celebration with a selection of five great food moments from cinema Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesWar Horse
Steven Spielberg always seemed like the perfect director to bring War Horse to the screen, and his version of the stage play, adapted from Michael Morpurgo's... Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
Shame
Shame is a film about addiction, but what separates it from other movies on this subject is that the drug for Brandon (Fassbender) is sex. He gets his fix an... Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
Goon
Ice hockey flicks usually export as unsuccessfully as baseball analogies, armoured rugby and the thought of having to pay for your healthcare. But Goon, insp... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
Interviews
Sex Addiction and the City: Steve McQueen on Shame
With 2008's Hunger, Steve McQueen proved himself to be one of the most distinctive voices in British filmmaking. The Skinny spoke to the director ahead of the release of his controversial new film Shame Read more »| 06 Jan 2012
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Dvd ReviewsAn Island
French filmmaker Vincent Moon specialises in unorthodox music flicks, but An Island is more unorthodox than most. The titular location is Als, the small Dani... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep, wearing what looks to be Jennifer Saunders’ prosthetics from that Absolutely Fabulous episode set in the future, is Baroness Thatcher. It... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Hearts of Darkness
Deriving its name from the book that gave Apocalypse Now its story, Hearts of Darkness is perhaps the world's best-known "The Making of..." documentary. Narr... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Whisper of the Heart
Making a welcome debut on Blu-ray, Whisper of the Heart is a minor classic from Japan's legendary Studio Ghibli, home of the award winning Spirited Away and ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
The Guard
John Michael McDonagh – forever cursed to be billed as brother to In Bruges' writer-director Michael – tries his hand at directing in this scaldi... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
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 Releases
The 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 -
Opinion
Trailer 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 Releases
Dreams 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