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 ReviewsDeadly Crossing
Steven Seagal is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, cloaked in XXXL martial arts pyjamas. He has spun a career in the movies for more than two... Read more »| 14 Dec 2010 -
Dvd ReviewsBattle Royale: Limited Edition
This limited edition release of one of contemporary Japanese cinema's key releases comes with enough extras to make even the most ardent completist swoon, bu... Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
New Releases
Skirt Day
Highlights from the French Film Festival 2010 Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
New ReleasesOutcast
Initially, Outcast seems promising, dragging the viewer into an atmospheric, contrasting world of grey, high rise council blandness and blood-fuelled pagan r... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
New Releases
Catfish
Catfish is a film about a man who strikes up an online friendship with a seemingly ordinary family, and that's about all you need to know. The elemen... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
Opinion
Time For Anti-heroes: Top Ten Films of 2010
The Skinny film writers sort through their ripped up ticket stubs for Sex and the City 2 and those Girl Who Got Raped And Beat Up films to bring you the cream of 2010's cinematic crop Read more »| 01 Dec 2010
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Film Events
December Film Events
For those who embrace a “bah, humbug” sensibility in December, the GFT in Glasgow is offering two anti-Christmas films: Gremlins on 3 Decemb... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
New Releases
Of Gods and Men
A group of monks find the limits of their faith being put to the test in Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois' perceptive and subtly powerful new film. T... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
Playtime & Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot was France's answer to Charlot (their fond nickname for Charlie Chaplin) in the 1950s. If you've seen The Illusionist... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
New Releases
Monsters
Gareth Edwards' low-budget post-apocalyptic thriller, Monsters, hits UK cinemas after nine long months on the road at festivals from South By Southwest ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
Little Big Soldier
You know where you are with Jackie Chan. He's the lovable king of action comedy who can turn any situation into a whirlwind of martial arts slapstick. You mi... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Interviews
Gareth Edwards: British Cinema's Renaissance Man
After a long slog on the festival circuit, Gareth Edwards' Monsters finally goes on general release. The Skinny talks to the talented young director about his genre-blending romance/monster movie, which has been wittily dubbed 'Brief Encounters of the Third Kind' Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
New ReleasesEasier with Practice
Davy Mitchell (Geraghty) is an aspiring writer embarking, with sleazy brother Sean (O’Neill) in tow, on a self-financed “book tour”... Read more »| 23 Nov 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
Leaving
Unfulfilled playing the part of a bourgeois housewife to her husband Samuel (Yvan Attal) and two children, Suzanne Vidal (Kristin Scott Thomas) decides to re... Read more »| 22 Nov 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
Splice
Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) are two genetic scientists in the employ of a medical research company. They create strange creatures th... Read more »| 19 Nov 2010