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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FestivalsEIFF 2009: White Lightnin'
Based on the semi-biographical story of Jesco White, White Lightnin' is a brutal and uncompromising example of the trials and tribulations of hillbilly life.... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
FestivalsEIFF 2009: Little Soldier
Traumatised by her experiences as a soldier in Iraq, Lotte (Trine Dyrholm) returns to Denmark, where she drifts and drinks until she gets a job as a driver a... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Festivals
EIFF 2009: Nollywood Babylon
What’s the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood? No? Nollywood, of course. In less than twenty years, using cheap dig... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
New ReleasesLooking for Eric
Eric Bishop is a lost postman who has begun to feel that events around him are running out of control. For one, there are his unruly stepsons and on top of ... Read more »| 15 Jun 2009 -
New Releases
Kisses
Dylan (Shane Curry) is a boy grown cold in a loveless house. Cast out on Christmas Day, he encounters the determined Kylie (Kelly O’Neill). Together th... Read more »| 14 Jun 2009 -
InterviewsToo 'B', even for IMDB
You know the story: The effects are all about chicken blood, the plot's riddled with clichés and the dialogue’s been lifted off the back of a Space Raiders packet. But that doesn't mean a B-movie can't be downright bloody terrifying. Super Furry Animals frontman and notable fan of the aesthetic (see the video to Run-Away for most recent evidence) Gruff Rhys remembers his first encounter Read more »| 12 Jun 2009
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New Releases
The End Of The Line
“The Europeans like our fish, but they don’t like the people”, laments academic Rashid Sumaila on the human cost of overfishing in West Afr... Read more »| 12 Jun 2009 -
New Releases
Telstar
Telstar is the biopic of legendary 60s music producer Joe Meek, who from a tiny studio above a shop in London’s Holloway Road, produced the top-selling... Read more »| 11 Jun 2009 -
Festivals
Falkirk talents set to launch debut film at EIFF
The Shutdown is a new short film written and narrated by Scottish author Alan Bissett, known for his novels and plays that have recently been successful acro... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Electra Glide In Blue
Electra has that Lynchian effect of making you wonder exactly what drugs the director was on. Nothing about it makes much sense, but it looks good, in a CHi... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Belle Toujours
Hollywood philistine William Goldman once said that all directors lose their touch at 60, but clearly he’d forgotten that Luis Buñuel was 67 whe... Read more »| 09 Jun 2009 -
Festivals
Arctic Monkeys to appear in Shane Meadows film at EIFF
Arctic Monkeys make an appearance in Shane Meadows’ new movie, Le Donk, which is set to be premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival later... Read more »| 08 Jun 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsBefore Stonewall
The Stonewall riots in 1969 were a turning point for the gay movement in Western society, and lead to the beginning of pride marches and increasing visibilit... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
New Releases
Terminator Salvation
In the build up to the release of Terminator 3, James Cameron proclaimed the series to be “so last century”. T3 just about worked, but this stal... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
Festivals
Edinburgh's Grassmarket Announces Summer Action
The Grassmarket may usually be a hodgepodge of watering holes that punctuate the day for Fringe loving punters and the nights for rowdy women in pink cowboy ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009