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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Film EventsNovember Film Highlights
The highlights from November's cinema calendar Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
New ReleasesThe Help
Subtlety can be oft-neglected when portraying the civil rights era cinematically and this latest Hollywood adaptation (based on Kathryn Stockett's bestseller... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
InterviewsThe Up-and-Comer: Andrew Haigh interview
We spoke to Andrew Haigh about his second feature film Weekend, the year's finest romance, ahead of its premiere at the London Film Festival Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
The Conversation
With the News of the World phone tapping scandal fresh in our minds comes the timely re-release of Francis Ford Coppola's study of surveillance, The Con... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
New Releases
Weekend
Weekend is your atypical (in Movieland) boy meets boy love story. On an impromptu Friday night cruising a cheesy nightclub in unglamorous Nottingham, Russell... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Loosely based on the true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, who confessed to over 600 murders, John McNaughton's controversial magnum opus is as far fr... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011
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Dvd ReviewsIn the Realm of the Senses
A film based on the exploits of a woman who carried her lover's severed penis around in her handbag really ought to be more entertaining than this. Director... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
New Releases
The Yellow Sea
Here director Hong-jin Na looks beyond Hollywood’s horizon of expectation and makes the outsider cliché contemporary with a story initially livi... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
New Releases
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay's return to cinema is an adaptation of – and an improvement upon – Lionel Shriver's best-selling novel; within the film's opening mo... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
A haunted David Bowie dominates the screen in one of his most iconic roles as British soldier and prisoner of war Jack Celliers, pitched into a battle of wil... Read more »| 10 Oct 2011 -
New Releases
Tyrannosaur
Tyrannosaur opens with an act of astonishing cruelty and at times the relentless bleakness of Paddy Considine's directorial debut threatens to becomes suffoc... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
Film Events
Good Rep - October
Five eye-catching repertory screenings happening in October Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
Festivals
Perfect Sense
Reunited with Ewan McGregor, Young Adam director David Mackenzie helms this high concept, pseudo-apocalyptic vision concerning the threat of a global vi... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Bad Teacher
Cameron Diaz is Elizabeth Halsey and she is a Bad Teacher. Her goal in life is to take care of number one – not her number one student. The wily and hi... Read more »| 05 Oct 2011 -
Film Events
Agents Provocateur: Shocktober @ GFT
Glasgow Film Theatre offers up five films from across the globe that will make your toes curl and your heart skip a beat Read more »| 03 Oct 2011