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 ReleasesState of Play
Political thriller State of Play opens with an ignominious bit of PR; journalist Cal McAffrey drives to work in a battered Saab estate, doing nothing to enco... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsThe Celluloid Closet
With films like Milk and Brokeback Mountain achieving Oscar wins and mainstream success, it’s easy to forget that in the dark days of Hollywood gone by... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
OpinionHappy Birthday GFT!
If you tend to prefer your cinemas with a little charm and magic, without overt corporate sponsorship and pesky multiplex convenience, you may also like to k... Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
New Releases
Outlander
Simultaneously the best and worst film about Vikings hunting space monsters you’re ever likely to see, Outlander focuses on Kainan (a miscast Jim Cavie... Read more »| 20 Apr 2009 -
Dvd ReviewsLaurence Olivier presents Harold Pinter's The Collection
Pinter’s 1961 play (here made for TV by The World Is Not Enough and Enigma director Apted in 1976) focuses on two dysfunctional couples linked by suspi... Read more »| 20 Apr 2009 -
New Releases
In the Loop
Armando Iannucci’s political satire In the Loop is brilliant. Why? Well, for a start it’s hilarious (what do you expect from one of the UK’... Read more »| 15 Apr 2009
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New Releases
Tony Manero
Like Germany, Russia and many former eastern bloc countries, Chile has in the last few years been utilising cinema to explore the turmoil of its twentieth ce... Read more »| 10 Apr 2009 -
Opinion
Building Rome in a Day: The 48 Hour Film Project 2009
Some quarters of common knowledge suggest that Julius Caesar didn’t build Rome in a day and it took God nearly a week to create the Earth. A widely he... Read more »| 08 Apr 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Transporter 3
After reaping the rewards as the founding father of Cinema du look, Luc Besson established himself as the 21st century Roger Corman, and has produced some of... Read more »| 06 Apr 2009 -
New Releases
Good
Flattery will get you everywhere; it even got the Nazis into power, or at least that’s how it appears in Good. It takes only a few words of praise to... Read more »| 03 Apr 2009 -
News
Armando Iannucci on In the Loop
It looks like British films are on the up and Armando Iannucci’s In the Loop is one film that everyone’s talking about. We catch up with the director, as well as actors Peter Capaldi and Chris Addison, to chat about the film and its impact. Read more »| 01 Apr 2009 -
New Releases
Religulous
Religion is the opium of society according to Karl Marx, and Bill Maher feels no differently. Venturing into the religious heartlands of America and beyond, ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2009 -
New Releases
La Vie Moderne
La Vie Moderne is a simple, empathetic and illuminating documentary about members of a rural community in the Haut-Garonne region of France. Depardon’... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
New Releases
The Boat That Rocked
The Boat That Rocked is a labour of love; a story of friendship and fraternity set against the backdrop of the swinging sixties, with one of the greatest sou... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Dvd Reviews
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Shot over eleven years, this utterly disarming documentary begins impressionistically, broadly sketching the subject’s turbulent but triumphant life in... Read more »| 23 Mar 2009