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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FestivalsEIFF 2011: Polyester - in Odorama
The Skinny's Deviance editor, Ana Hine, previews a special Odorama presentation of Polyester, the 1981 comedy from the biggest deviant of all, John Walters, which is screening in all its fetid glory at the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
New ReleasesBridesmaids
Recent wedding comedies (Bride Wars, 27 Dresses) have been about as enjoyable as stepping on an upturned plug, but Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids emphatically... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Floodtide
David (Gordon Jackson) is the son of a farmer who dreams of building ships on the Clyde. Against his father's wishes he takes a job in the shipyards and begi... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
Dvd ReviewsRobinson In Ruins
Psychogeography, the form of intellectual rambling practised by writers like Iain Sinclair and Will Self, has had some prominence in recent years. At its bes... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
The Great White Silence
When an earlier cut of Herbert G. Ponting’s remarkable record of the British Antarctic Expedition was screened for George VI in 1914, the king declared... Read more »| 17 Jun 2011 -
FestivalsLucy Walker Interview or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb
Countdown to Zero is a chilling documentary tracing mankind's precocious relationship to the atom bomb. The film's director, Lucy Walker, talks to The Skinny about the ever-present nuclear threat Read more »| 14 Jun 2011
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New ReleasesThe Messenger
Recently returned from Iraq, Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) is ordered to see out the remaining three months of his commission within the Army&r... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
New Releases
Stake Land
The darling of Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn horror festival, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land is well worth hunting down. A young boy, Martin (Connor Paolo), ... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
Interviews
Teenage Daydream: Interview with Gregg Araki
Gregg Araki, director of new queer cinema freak-outs Totally Fucked Up and The Doom Generation, talks to The Skinny about his latest pop-art paean to teenage sexual liberation, Kaboom Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Festivals
EIFF 2011: The Long (Shorts) Weekend
There may be no closing Gala this year, but the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival is still sure to go out with a bang as it hosts the Nokia Shorts Weekender, Scotland's largest celebration of short films Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Howl
Allen Ginsberg was the fiery voice of a whole generation of disaffected American intellectuals and never more so than in his first published work, the poem H... Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Armadillo
Armadillo’s approach to the war in Afghanistan is nominally non-political, but the film was nonetheless the subject of much debate in Denmark d... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
New Releases
Kaboom
Kaboom opens with a naked Smith (Thomas Dekker) floating down a brightly lit corridor, looking a bit confused. So he should be. He is the centre of the colle... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Film Events
Donor Unknown
Donor Unknown: Adventures in the sperm trade. A young woman born through artificial insemination tracks down her donor dad, and along the way discovers dozen of siblings Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Festivals
EIFF 2011: Stranger Than Fiction
Documentaries make up a third of the features showing at this year's EIFF. The Skinny preview this strong doc line-up, which includes Project Nim, the new film from Man on Wire's James Marsh, and Hell and Back Again, the startling war documentary that will close the festival's new Conflict | Reportage strand Read more »| 03 Jun 2011