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 ReleasesTelstar
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 ReviewsElectra 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 ReviewsBelle 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 Reviews
Before 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
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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 -
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 -
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 Releases
12 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 -
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