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 ReleasesProject Nim
In 1967, The Jungle Book’s King Louie sang “an ape like me, can learn to be human too”. Six years later, Professor Herb Terrace indirectly ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
InterviewsCitizen Nim: An interview with James Marsh
Raised in 70s New York bohemia, Project Nim's eponymous chimp really was the king of the swingers. We speak to Man on Wire director James Marsh about his latest documentary Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
New Releases
Super 8
Young buck Joe (Joel Courtney) and his chums witness a horrendous, deliberate train-wreck whilst shooting their zero-budget zombie splatterfest on the eponym... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Confessions of a Dog
Filmed back in 2005, director Gen Takahashi struggled to get Confessions of a Dog screened domestically, its depiction of police corruption apparently cuttin... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Lost Bladesman
They don't make films like they used to. Except in China. The Lost Bladesman is a historical epic of the old school with a cast of thousands filling out mass... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
InterviewsChris Weitz: Hollywood Chameleon
Genre hopping director Chris Weitz swaps sparkly vampires for real stakes in humanistic drama A Better Life Read more »| 29 Jul 2011
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New Releases
Captain America : The First Avenger
With its star spangled coming attraction posters, there was a concern among non-US jingoists that Captain America: The First Avenger would arrive in cinemas ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Limitless
Limitless takes the headlines about American students who have been enhancing their exam performance with drugs and turns them into a slickly enjoyable thril... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Dvd ReviewsHere's a Health to the Barley Mow
The reputation of folk culture has waxed and waned in Britain, from being seen as quaint and faintly ludicrous (Morris dancing, anyone?), to being championed... Read more »| 26 Jul 2011 -
Festivals
Our Day Will Come
Enfant terrible of the music video world, Romain Gavras, writes and directs his feature debut, featuring perennial cinematic nutcase Vincent Cassel. The resu... Read more »| 26 Jul 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Mon Amour opens with the voices and almost abstract shots of two naked lovers in bed, before cutting to scenes of postwar Hiroshima. Over these the... Read more »| 25 Jul 2011 -
New Releases
Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses offers a dastardly scenario — what if you could get away with murdering that obnoxious superior who makes your daily grind a misery? Th... Read more »| 18 Jul 2011 -
Interviews
The World and Bobby Fischer: an interview with Liz Garbus
The Skinny talks to filmmaker Liz Garbus about her documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World, which charts the turbulent life of the legendary chess grandmaster Interview: David McGinty Read more »| 13 Jul 2011 -
Opinion
Starter for eleven: Craig Roberts
Submarine star Craig Roberts, the streetest gangsta from Maesycwmmer, south Wales, tests his knowledge of his hero, Eminem. But will he know enough to win that coveted haggis supper? Read more »| 12 Jul 2011 -
New Releases
Hobo with a Shotgun
With a title like Hobo with a Shotgun, this film has a lot to live up to – and Jason Eisener's exploitation homage doesn't disappoint. Ageing cult star... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011