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 ReleasesThe Class
Laurent Cantet’s docudrama set in a tough Parisian Junior High, pits co-writer Francois Bégaudeau as Mr. Marin, a young teacher desperate to mak... Read more »| 12 Feb 2009 -
Festivals
Cutting some rug on the cutting room floor
Not content with projecting moving images onto every single flat surface in Glasgow, this year the festival promises to infiltrate the underbelly of the town, with events taking place in the Sub Club and The Arches. Read more »| 11 Feb 2009 -
New ReleasesChe: Parts One and Two
In the four decades since his death, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara has remained an icon of popular culture while our knowledge of the man has become as t... Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
New Releases
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woody Allen’s latest, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is ostensibly the tale of two young American women spending a summer in Barcelona. Vicky, played by Reb... Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
CineskinnyGlasgow Film Festival 2009: Celebrating Cinema City
Gail Tolley looks at the highlights of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Gomorrah
Gomorrah is being released in the US under the banner “Martin Scorsese presents”, and while that director’s ouvre may explore the culture o... Read more »| 03 Feb 2009
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Dvd Reviews
The Times of Harvey Milk
Oscar hopes are high for Gus Van Sant’s Milk, an excellent biopic of the first openly gay elected official in American history. Van Sant credits this O... Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
New Releases
Doubt
"The dragon is hungry." Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) thus describes Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), principal of St Nicholas School in the Bronx. Fo... Read more »| 30 Jan 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Appaloosa
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, and Ed Harris has returned to the director’s chair after eight years, to take Clint Eastwood’... Read more »| 29 Jan 2009 -
Opinion
The Skinny Guide to Oscar Party Season
Love it or loathe it, Oscar season is here; you can try to avoid the pics of weeping starlets and triumphantly returning has-beens...or you can throw in the towel and host your own Oscar party, with our how-to guide. Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
New ReleasesValkyrie
What do Bryan Singer and Spinal Tap have in common? They like it loud. Really loud. Valkyrie turns it up to 11 as it opens with a deafening mix of explosi... Read more »| 23 Jan 2009 -
New Releases
Better Things
The cynic might argue that the British film industry appears to have been kept afloat in recent decades on a raft of social realism. And while directors such... Read more »| 15 Jan 2009 -
New Releases
Looking 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 Jan 2009 -
New Releases
Not Quite Hollywood
The history of Australian films is the history of girls walking around rocks, dingoes stealing babies and Jenny Agutter in a pool of water. At least it is if... Read more »| 14 Jan 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Eden Lake
“Run for the hills, the hoodies are coming!”. Well, not quite, but that was the general response to James Watkins’ debut feature, a backwoo... Read more »| 14 Jan 2009