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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InterviewsFuture Shorts ONE: May edition
Future Shorts ONE, a night of sartorial conformity, numb buttocks and, most significantly, excellent short films Read more »| 13 May 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the John)
It's been 30 years since Frank Ripploh shocked the world with this semi-autobiographical depiction of the reality of being gay in 1980s West Berlin. It remai... Read more »| 10 May 2011 -
Dvd ReviewsBiutiful
It's not as if we expected a frothy comedy from director Iñárritu, but Biutiful raises the bar for just how grim things can get in a film. Uxba... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
New Releases
Holy Rollers
Director Kevin Asch’s first feature film follows the bizarre true story of Sam (Jesse Eisenberg), a naive and awkward Hasidic Jew embroiled in an ecsta... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
New Releases
Outside the Law
Much like his Oscar-nominated 2006 film Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law gives us an Algerian perspective on key events in French history. T... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
New Releases
Attack the Block
Attack the Block opens on a scene as prosaic as any social realist film, with a gang of hoodies (the kind of kids that give Daily Mail readers palpitations) ... Read more »| 05 May 2011
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New ReleasesInsidious
Inadvertently inventing torture-porn can’t be the proudest moment in the careers of James Wan and Leigh Whannell, respectively the director and writer ... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Interviews
Joe Cornish: "I bullied my way in front of the camera, but in truth I was always much happier behind it”
Joe Cornish swaps Song Wars and Star Wars spoofs for high-octane action and political commentary in his blistering directorial debut Attack the Block Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
OpinionReel Talk: Film distributors love the smell of easy money in the morning
Everyone loves 70s American cinema, right? The scattershot chaos of Altman, the swaggering rock and roll of Scorsese, those DePalma fever dreams; a golden ag... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Film Events
Film Events in May
With Ghostface back haunting cinema in Scream 4, it's appropriate to ask the question: do you like scary movies? If so, May is chock-full of films for you. T... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
New Releases
Hanna
Atonement director Joe Wright makes a side-step into the assassin sub-genre with Hanna. It stars Saoirse Ronan as the titular cute-but-deadly teenager who's ... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
New Releases
Marwencol / Village of the Dolls
Eleven years ago, Mark Hogancamp was beaten into a coma, wiping his memories. Unable to pay for professional therapy, Mark built the tiny titular town of Mar... Read more »| 01 May 2011 -
Film Events
Dylan at the Movies
Always changing, ever enigmatic, and consistently relevant, Robert Allen Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan, turns seventy this month. In celebration, the GFT is presenting a season of films looking back over the career of the inimitable songwriter and musician Read more »| 26 Apr 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Balibo
From the outset, Balibo impresses both the truth and the seriousness of the events featured. Three timelines are established: present day East Timor, where a... Read more »| 25 Apr 2011 -
New Releases
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
A whimsical, exposition-spouting narrator is something English speaking audiences have come to think of as de rigueur in French cinema, possibly in the same ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2011