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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New ReleasesGreek Pete
Male escort Pete has landed in London and aims to earn enough riches to retire, but juggling work with his new boyfriend (fellow hustler Kai) is proving diff... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
New ReleasesSin Nombre
Cary Fukunaga’s debut feature occupies that, often inhospitable, terrain between socio-political gangster-chase-flick and quietly nuanced love story. S... Read more »| 14 Aug 2009 -
New Releases
Three Miles North of Molkom
Every year, Three Miles North of Molkom, a flurry of Timotei-fresh ‘No Mind Festival’ goers tribally gather to unleash their power animals, chant... Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
New ReleasesBroken Embraces
Throughout his career Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has enthralled his audiences with unusual tales of human relationships. In his trademark palette of re... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
New Releases
Rumba
Revelling in the theory that the best comedians should be seen and not heard (take a bow Jacques Tati, take a pratfall Buster Keaton), new French comedy Rumb... Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Interviews
Ursula Meier: Home Truths
Isabelle Huppert stars in Ursula Meier’s latest film, Home, a work which subtly explores a family’s relationship between the environment and society around them. Gail Tolley finds out more. Read more »| 28 Jul 2009
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New Releases
Mesrine: Killer Instinct / Public Enemy No. 1
Jean-François Richet returns to the director’s chair for the first time since his so-so 2005 remake of Assault on Precinct 13 with this timely a... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Film Events
August Film Events: 2009
Edinburgh is awash with choices for film events in August. If peace is what you seek, head to the Filmhouse on 21 and 28 August, when the Festival of Spiritu... Read more »| 24 Jul 2009 -
New ReleasesMad, Sad and Bad
Mad, Sad & Bad is about a family that pulls no punches: “Crap skin, crap hair, crap body,” a man tells his sister, before trying to seduce hi... Read more »| 22 Jul 2009 -
New Releases
Adam
Relationships are hard. Everybody knows that. But when one half of the couple has Asperger's Syndrome, you enter unfamiliar territory. Adam struggles with al... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
OpinionWhat's Up Doc? Political Documentaries in 2009.
Following on from the release of several critically acclaimed political documentaries in recent months, Gail Tolley explores the role of such films in what many regard as apathetic times. Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
The Damned United
Cloughie might have been a more appropriate title for this “adaptation” of David Peace’s baleful take on the arrogant but charismatic Brian... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Slacker Uprising
Slacker Uprising documents Michael Moore’s tour of key battleground states during 2004’s US elections, his intention to get America’s young... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Oasis
Just released from prison for manslaughter, socially inept outcast Jong-du (Kyung-gu Sol) finds himself falling in love with the seriously disabled daughter ... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
High Heels
High Heels is a film about women: conventional, criminal, matriarchal, murderous, loved, loathed, and impersonated. More specifically, it’s about the p... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009