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 ReviewsThe Cry of the Owl
This low-key adaptation of one of Patricia Highsmith’s lesser-known stories finds a troubled divorcee (Considine) becoming obsessed with a pretty young... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
Raging Phoenix
Thailand continues its dominance of the martial arts genre with this latest effort from the producers of Ong-Bak. Deu (Chocolate star Yanin) is a rock drumme... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Dvd ReviewsSex Life In L.A.
Made in 1997 and 2004, this excellent two-part documentary exposes a world far removed from the big money cosmeticism of mainstream hetero skin flick... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Greatest
When titular champ Bennett Brewer (Aaron Johnson) dies in a car accident, his family – including the high-school sweetheart carrying his unborn child &... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
New Releases
Double Take
In the unclassifiable tradition of Chris Marker and Guy Maddin, Johan Grimonprez’s enigmatic feature is a puzzling flurry of ideas: Alfred Hitc... Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
New Releases
Kick-Ass
Do you really need superpowers to be a superhero? Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) doesn't think so. This geeky teen relies on nothing more than his own determi... Read more »| 29 Mar 2010
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Film Events
April Film Events
After the success of Crazy Heart, American country, folk and blues is celebrating a film revival. In Edinburgh, the Cameo is showing The Roots and Branches o... Read more »| 26 Mar 2010 -
New Releases
The Scouting Book for Boys
Thomas Turgoose will be a familiar name to Shane Meadows fans; the young actor starred in both This is England and Somers Town as a cocky youth with the gift... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
New Releases
Storm
War crime prosecutor Hannah Maynard (Kerry Fox) has lost out on promotion to a lesser experienced male counterpart (Stephen Dillane). She’s also seeing... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
New Releases
I Love You Phillip Morris
I Love you Phillip Morris is based on a true story, a statement which offers some explanation for where such a bizarre tale comes from. Steven Russell (Jim C... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
Dvd ReviewsTalk To Me
The name Petey Greene won’t ring many bells this side of the Atlantic, but the outspoken DJ was big enough in his hey-day to garner an invitation to Ca... Read more »| 16 Mar 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
Salvage
In pursuit of ratings, Channel 4’s flagship soap Brookside went to desperate measures, from helicopter crashes, religious cult suicide pacts, i... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
Dvd Reviews
George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead
Number six in Romero’s flesh-eater franchise, this latest opus of the undead is a pretty moribund effort. Things kick off nicely with a group of soldie... Read more »| 09 Mar 2010 -
Cineskinny
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
In case this particular publishing phenomenon has passed you by, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first book in The Millennium Trilogy – ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2010 -
Film Events
March Film Events: 2010
The GFT has outdone itself this month with not one, but two horror double bills – in one weekend! Fans of the video nasties can treat themselves to the... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010