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 ReleasesDefiance
This true story offers a fresh take on the war genre as we learn of three Jewish brothers who save hundreds of their countrymen from the Nazis during World W... Read more »| 01 Jan 2009 -
Interviews
Director Jon S. Baird talks Cass
Michael Gillespie talks to Scottish director Jon S. Baird about his debut feature, Cass, released on DVD on 29 December Read more »| 29 Dec 2008 -
New ReleasesFar North
Stunning landscapes and letterbox cinematography might link Far North with civilisation dramas like the admirable Mongol and the abysmal 10,000BC, but Asif K... Read more »| 19 Dec 2008 -
Dvd ReviewsWhere No Vultures Fly
Yet another bizarre time capsule (from 1951), this Ealing production casts Anthony Steel as a crusading game warden determined to rescue African wildlife fro... Read more »| 19 Dec 2008 -
New ReleasesLost and Delirious
A brief synopsis of Lost and Delirious suggests “The Rampage of the Cliché Monster”: a coming-of-age tale set in an all girls’ boarding school, the story fo... Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
Interviews
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Gail Tolley catches up with Academy award-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney on his new film Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S. Thompson. Read more »| 12 Dec 2008
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Dvd Reviews
The Wackness
One of the busiest men in showbiz – he appeared in 11 films in 2008/2009, according to imdb.com - Sir Ben Kingsley is usually a sign of quality in even... Read more »| 05 Dec 2008 -
New Releases
The Man from London
In an interview with Tilda Swinton in the Guardian in 2007 she talks about seeing Bela Tarr’s The Man from London for the first time. In particular she... Read more »| 05 Dec 2008 -
OpinionOh My Gort! Another 50s Remake?
With the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still hurtling towards our cinema screens Becky Bartlett investigates the trend of the 1950s remake. Read more »| 05 Dec 2008 -
New Releases
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Shot in a mixture of crisp colour, grainy sepia and monochrome over ten years, director Steven Sebring does not attempt to inform viewers of a timeline in Pa... Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
New Releases
Summer
Robert Carlyle gives a career-best performance in a deeply affecting take on two men’s friendship. Through flashbacks presented by narrator Shaun,... Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
New Releases
Julia
Reaching the half way point of Erick Zonca’s new film, you wouldn’t be blamed for not wanting to continue much further. Enduring almost an hour ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
New Releases
Cass
Cass Read more »| 25 Nov 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Man On Wire
Man On Wire Read more »| 25 Nov 2008 -
Film Events
New Video Art Night: As We Speak
Dziga Vertov, one of the true pioneers of experimental cinema (he made Man With A Movie Camera, after all), was once quoted as saying that the analysis of n... Read more »| 25 Nov 2008