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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CineskinnyGFF 2011: A New Dimension
With an ever increasing number of 3D films due for release, Helen Wright discusses its ability to enhance artistic expression Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
CineskinnyGFF 2011: The Devil Has The Best Tunes
We talk to Glasgow DJ Alex Smoke about his new score for Faust Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
CineskinnyGFF 2011: Layers of Ozon
With Potiche selected as GFF's opening gala film, we look at the previous works by French director Francois Ozon Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival: Boy
Nostalgia is pretty low hanging fruit; after all, evoking the past’s warm glow can be as simple as humming the Dogtanian theme-tune or bemoaning the in... Read more »| 12 Feb 2011 -
New ReleasesInside Job
Money? It’s a gas. The carnage of Wall Street gets the focus treatment in Charles Ferguson’s timely documentary about the recent global financial... Read more »| 11 Feb 2011 -
Film Events
Superheroes In Glasgow
'Comic Book Guy' Thom Atkinson gives the lowdown on what's coming up in GFF11's Mark Millar curated 'Superheroes in Glasgow' strand Read more »| 09 Feb 2011
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Interviews
Glasgow Frightfest: Schlock and Gore
Horror aficionado Becky Bartlett wades through the entrails of this year’s Glasgow FrightFest Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
InterviewsMatt Lloyd: Short Film Impresario
Crammed into three frenetic days at the start of the GFF, the fantastic Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF) again provides a chance to see the finest emerging film-makers from across the world. We caught up with GSFF director Matt Lloyd to hear all about it Read more »| 07 Feb 2011 -
New Releases
Brighton Rock (2010) Film Review
Over sixty years on from John Boulting’s original noir, Rowan Joffe resurrects Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, fittingly setting it within the con... Read more »| 07 Feb 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
Black
Beginning worryingly like a Guy Ritchie rip-off with freeze frame introductions of loveable rogues, French heist movie Black quickly confounds your expectati... Read more »| 07 Feb 2011 -
Dvd Reviews
The Valley (Obscured by Clouds)
Like trying to follow the ramblings of an old hippy whose brain has been fried by too much acid, watching the counter-cultural films of the 60s and 70s can b... Read more »| 07 Feb 2011 -
New Releases
True Grit
The Dude replaces The Duke in the Coens' first pure western, with the brothers ignoring the antiquated 1969 Wayne vehicle and choosing instead to mine the Am... Read more »| 04 Feb 2011 -
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Alan Jones: Maestro of the Macabre
With Film4’s FrightFest lurking round the corner like a restless Michael Myers ready to terrorise the closing weekend of the Glasgow Film Festival, we've hunted down the festival's founder and horror aficionado Alan Jones to pick his brains Read more »| 03 Feb 2011 -
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Millar Time: Superheroes Take On The Arthouse
Mark Millar, the comic book writer behind The Ultimates and Kick-Ass, talks to The Skinny about bringing superheroes to the festival crowd, his Weegie superhero movie and an onanistic Peter Parker Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
Film Events
Film Events – February 2011
For the romantics out there, head to the GFT on Valentine's Day (14 Feb) and take your pick of four love stories, ranging from the classic to the contemporar... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011