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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New ReleasesDrive
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 ReleasesWhen 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
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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 Releases
You 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 ReleasesTinker 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 -
InterviewsGrowing Pains: An Interview with Céline Sciamma
We speak to French director Céline Sciamma about her second feature Tomboy, a lyrical tale of childhood identity set in a sun-dappled Parisian suburb Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
New Releases
30 Minutes or Less
High hopes spilled from this reunion of Zombieland director and star, Ruben Fleischer and Jesse Eisenberg, but the result is a comedy crime caper centred on ... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
Cineskinny
Director Let Loose: David Mackenzie
Tennent's lager, tent sex and The Proclaimers accompanied by 85,000 backing singers – all familiar to those who make the annual pilgrimage to Kinross for T in the Park. David Mackenzie brings this experience to the big screen with You Instead Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
Interviews
Cinéma Rosé: Kim Longinotto
We speak to award winning filmmaker Kim Longinotto about her latest documentary, Pink Saris Read more »| 13 Sep 2011 -
Interviews
Steampunk Horror: An Interview with Leigh Whannell and James Wan
Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell swap grisly torture porn for chilling horror in their latest collaboration Insidious Read more »| 12 Sep 2011 -
Festivals
Tomboy
Tomboy Laure (Héran) arrives at her new apartment in a leafy French suburb, and soon yearns for more than simply playing inside with her little sister... Read more »| 12 Sep 2011