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 ReviewsHenry: 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 -
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 ReleasesWe 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
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Film EventsGood 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 EventsAgents 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 -
Dvd Reviews
The Beaver
It is hard to come to The Beaver without preconceptions, starring as it does Tinseltown's greatest pariah and featuring a story about a man who talks through... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Film Events
Glasgay! 2011: The Films
We preview the film event at this year's annual festival of queer culture Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Chalet Girl
With a made-for-TV screenplay thinly veiled as a funky new take on mountaintop athletics, Chalet Girl follows ex-skateboarder Kim, a plain Jane with a big he... Read more »| 01 Oct 2011 -
New Releases
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen’s latest feature is as much a love letter to Paris as Manhattan was to its namesake. The opening montage of la Ville-Lumière ac... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Film Events
October Film Highlights
As the trees begin to turn various shades of red, so too do our cinema screens with brains, intestines and blood being gratuitously splattered as horror fans... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011