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 ReviewsErasing David
Legitimate concerns about privacy and misuse of personal information have no place in director David Bond's bonkers documentary, which firmly sides itself wi... Read more »| 19 Nov 2010 -
New Releases
Whatever Works
The depth of Woody Allen's fall from box office grace was revealed by the cinema poster for Whatever Works, which buried his name in the fine print. ... Read more »| 15 Nov 2010 -
New Releases
Machete
It‘s refreshing to have Danny Trejo acting the title role of Robert Rodriguez’s latest Mexploitation offering. Looking like he has lived ... Read more »| 14 Nov 2010 -
Cineskinny
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
A rare chance to see Strange Powers, a documentary following the creative and personal life of Magnetic Fields singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt Read more »| 11 Nov 2010 -
Film EventsThe Cameo's All Night Horror Madness
For a generation of twenty-somethings, slack parenting and older brothers and sisters led to us watching horror films at a far younger age than we should hav... Read more »| 05 Nov 2010 -
New ReleasesUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a unique and mesmerising piece of filmmaking, but it won't be to... Read more »| 05 Nov 2010
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New ReleasesThe Kids Are All Right
A fitting queer comedy-drama with its heart in the right place. Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
New Releases
The American
The American is low on incident but rich in mood. Watching Corbijn’s follow-up to Control (2006) is like flicking through a portfolio of the former mus... Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
Dvd ReviewsA Town Called Panic
Based on a Belgian television series, A Town Called Panic is a deranged stop motion film by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, creators of the instant... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Interviews
Mike Leigh: Bard of Bleakness
Much loved miserablist Mike Leigh discusses his latest film, Another Year, and his forty year filmmaking career Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Opinion
Reel Talk: Paul or Pauline
Our new Film Editor introduces himself Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Festivals
EIFF 2011 open for business
Submissions for EIFF 2011 are now open Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Film Events
November Film Events 2010
The Filmhouse is hosting an Introduction to European Cinema, a season of films screening in collaboration with the Film Studies course at the University of E... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
New Releases
Another Year
For four decades Mike Leigh has been exploring, with a mischievous relish, the lives and loves of the inhabitants of London’s urban sprawl. His latest ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
New Releases
Let Me In
Matt Reeves' Let Me In may be a pointless exercise, but as pointless exercises go, it's not a bad effort. This English-language remake of the cult Swedish ho... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010