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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Dvd ReviewsGomorrah
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 -
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 ReleasesDoubt
"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 -
OpinionThe 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 Releases
Valkyrie
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
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New ReleasesBetter 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 ReleasesLooking 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 -
Opinion
"My name is Harvey Milk. And I'm here to recruit you."
The release of Milk, the new biopic on the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the US, isn’t a story to be resigned to history. Gail Tolley discusses. Read more »| 13 Jan 2009 -
Interviews
Duane Hopkins: Things Can Only Get Better
Duane Hopkins’ debut Better Things stands out as a film that takes a fresh approach towards familiar subject matter. Gail Tolley meets him. Read more »| 07 Jan 2009 -
New Releases
The Wrestler
After years in the wilderness, Mickey Rourke makes the comeback of the decade as an ageing wrestler in a powerful and uplifting drama. Randy The Ram is decad... Read more »| 06 Jan 2009 -
Opinion
From the Mat to the Big Screen
As Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Wrestler opens at cinemas, Becky Bartlett looks at the strange trend of wrestlers on the big screen. Read more »| 05 Jan 2009 -
New Releases
Defiance
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