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 ReviewsRolling Thunder
With a script written by Paul Schrader, Rolling Thunder is an unlikely cut-and-paste job between a classic 70s meditation on damaged masculinity and a brutal... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Albatross
Leather clad tearaway and wannabe writer Emilia (Findlay) takes a job at a hotel on the South Coast run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. She forms an unl... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesYoung Adult
Young Adult is the second collaboration between the creative team behind Juno, and it again displays both their strengths and their weaknesses. Jason Reitman... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
New ReleasesThe Descendants
Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) directs his first film in seven years with this charming comedy. Matt King (Clooney), trustee to his extended family's v... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
Cineskinny
Youth in Revolt – Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012
Looking at the programme for GFF 2012 you'd be forgiven for thinking that festivities begin 16 Feb with opening gala Your Sister's Sister, but you'd be wrong. Overlook the cinematic delights of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival at your peril Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
J. Edgar
Few public figures have remained as enigmatic and elusive as J. Edgar Hoover, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that Clint Eastwood's sluggish biopic fail... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012
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Interviews
Steven Spielberg on War Horse: "This is the first fully British film I've ever made”
After the Leicester Square UK premiere of War Horse, its director, the legendary Steven Spielberg, sat down with the press to discuss his inspiration for this equine opus Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Burma Conspiracy
The Burma Conspiracy is the second film based on Belgian comic series Largo Winch. It features a Bosnian hero who lives in Switzerland, has more European co-... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
New Releases
Haywire
Haywire is the kind of lucid thriller Paul Greengrass might make if he ever invested in a tripod. Breakneck action with graceful, but nasty, fight sequences ... Read more »| 12 Jan 2012 -
Dvd Reviews
Punishment 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 -
Opinion
Five 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 Releases
War 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