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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New ReleasesHeartbeats (Les amours imaginares)
The ridiculously talented 22 year-old actor-director Xavier Dolan follows up his 2009 festival hit I Killed My Mother with Heartbeats (Les Amours I... Read more »| 20 May 2011 -
New ReleasesWin Win
Win Win is a character-driven film that is blessed with real characters; people we can understand, be interested in, and care about. That has been th... Read more »| 16 May 2011 -
Dvd ReviewsRed Hill
Fresh-faced cop Shane Cooper (Kwanten) has transfered to the Outback town of Red Hill (pop. 120) to find peace and quiet for his pregnant wife. And in this b... Read more »| 16 May 2011 -
Interviews
Future 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
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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 -
New Releases
Insidious
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 -
InterviewsJoe 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 -
Opinion
Reel 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