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 ReleasesTerminator 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 -
FestivalsEdinburgh'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 -
New ReleasesLast House On The Left
Summer is fast approaching and so is the slew of next generation horrors also known to the studios as reimaginings and known to the rest of us as rehashing. ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Interviews
The Beautiful Game
Looking for Eric is full of the unexpected. Not only is it a comedy from an unlikely director it also stars the football legend Eric Cantona who demonstrates, among other things, his skill at playing the trumpet. Gail Tolley finds out that what initially sounds like an unlikely premise actually works rather well. Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Aria
Aria producer Don Boyd could never have anticipated that twenty-two years after his film’s release, multiplex cinemas would be screening pristinely fil... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
New Releases12 Rounds
The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky recently lamented the decline of the action movie muscle man. But with the recent comebacks of Willis, Stallone and Va... Read more »| 29 May 2009
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Festivals
Digital Culture Highlights this June
The world's oldest continually running film festival returns in June. This year the Edinburgh International Film Festival has included several digital events... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
New Releases
Drag Me To Hell
Contemporary American horror has fallen under a curse: it either sates a juvenile bloodlust for sex and torture, or lazily remakes derivative Asian shockers ... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
New Releases
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Prior to seeing Sounds Like Teen Spirit, I was oblivious to the existence of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Two Eurovisions a year? That’s just spoiling... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Boccaccio '70
Buttoned down Catholicism and the resulting itch to unbutton everything: 60s Italy is the setting for Boccaccio ’70, with four of the country’s m... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Festivals
Cannes 2009: The Highs, The Lows and The Gore
We came, we saw, and gore and horror conquered. Gail Tolley brings you the most talked about films from this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
New Releases
Summer Scars
If you go down to the woods today, be sure to watch out for nasty surprises. Julian Richards’ semi-autobiographical award-winning horror tale has been ... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
New Releases
Tormented
Many of E4’s ‘Skins’ cast are to be found in Jon Wright’s budget Brit flick classroom horror Tormented in which Darren Mullet, a fat ... Read more »| 15 May 2009 -
New Releases
Fermat's Room
Spain’s answer to the Saw franchise sees its victims forced to use their brains rather than their bodies to survive the game. In Fermat’s Room, f... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
New Releases
Awaydays
When Paul Carty (Nicky Bell) meets Elvis (Liam Boyle) each sees in the other the chance for escape. For Carty, Elvis is his passport into the violent camarad... Read more »| 12 May 2009