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 ReviewsPredators
Predators opens with a bang. Or, more accurately, a whoosh. Our hero (Adrien Brody) wakes to find himself plummeting through the air towards the ground. A pa... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
New ReleasesTintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
This live-action Tintin adventure from 1961, which sees the boy reporter and Captain Haddock on the trail of lost gold in the Aegean, gets so many details ri... Read more »| 20 Oct 2010 -
New ReleasesMary and Max
A very unusual friendship forms the heart of Mary and Max, Adam Elliot's enchanting stopmotion animated debut feature. Mary (Toni Collette) is a lone... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
No Impact Man
No Impact Man documents the year in which writer Colin Beavan and his family attempted to reduce their carbon emissions to zero. They begin by recycling, giv... Read more »| 09 Oct 2010 -
Dvd ReviewsLast Train Home
Each year China's 130 million migrant workers travel home to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families. These arduous journeys from smog-shrouded cities... Read more »| 06 Oct 2010 -
New Releases
Jackboots on Whitehall
A British film with an all-star voice cast, including Timothy Spall, Ewan McGregor and Richard E. Grant, Jackboots on Whitehall offers an alternative version... Read more »| 05 Oct 2010
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New Releases
Restrepo
Considering the controversy surrounding last year’s Associated Press photograph of a dying US marine (deemed appalling by the disgusted and insigh... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Losers
A crack commando unit are framed for a crime that they didn't commit and have to go on the run to clear their names. If you can find them … Cue brass ... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
Night of the Demons
Freddy vs Jason veteran Monica Keena does well in this low rent remake of the 80s sex 'n' splatter classic, but it's Edward Furlong as a strung out gatecrash... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Interviews
Meeting Mr Nice: Howard Marks interview
Howard Marks, the Oxford-educated dope smuggler, discusses the adaptation of his autobiography Mr Nice, his thoughts on prohibition and how he acquired his intriguing pseudonym Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Film Events
October Film Events 2010
From 8-10 October head to Glasgow Film Theatre for Scotland Loves Anime, a showcase of Japanese animation preceded by short films made in Scotland. Guests in... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
Brother
“You Japanese are so inscrutable”. It is a relief when a character says this in Brother for Beat Takeshi always has me reaching for the thesaurus... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
New Releases
Buried
From the first minute of Buried to the last, we are stuck inside a wooden coffin alongside Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds), an American truck driver being held f... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
South of the Border
Leading with footage of Fox News and its right-wing cohorts acting foolish, South of the Border seems to aim for populist agitprop a la Michael Moore. But Mo... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
Mother Knows Best: Bong Joon-ho on Mother
The Korean director Bong Joon-ho talks about his highly-anticiapted new film, Mother Read more »| 10 Sep 2010