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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FestivalsThe Visitor
Eternal supporting player Richard Jenkins revels in a rare starring role in The Visitor as Walter, a middle aged college professor who’s never really g... Read more »| 03 Jul 2008 -
FestivalsThe Black Balloon
You could be forgiven for thinking that if you’ve seen What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, you’ve seen The Black Balloon. With its tale of a resen... Read more »| 01 Jul 2008 -
FestivalsVery Young Girls
A harrowing look at child prostitution, the documentary Very Young Girls follows Rachel Lloyd and her staff at GEMS in New York, assisting girls who were int... Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
News
WANTED - JAMES MCAVOY AND ANGELINA JOLIE RELEASED ON UNSUSPECTING PUBLIC TODAY
Scotland's best export appears today in his first Hollywood role. And boy, it's a biggie. Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Opinion
The Man Who Would Be King
As the latest Stephen King adaptation arrives in cinemas in the shape of The Mist, a genuinely creepy film derived from a 1980 King novella by writer/director Frank Darabont, Jonathan Melville gets strapped into the electric chair and is forced to watch ten films from the King back catalogue - some brilliant, some utter toilet. Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Festivals
EIFF launch: On the Carpet with Keira Knightley et al
When YoungScot contacted us to say that two of their members had been to the international premiere of The Edge of Love last week, we were impressed. When we read their report, and heard that these reporters were just 16 and 18 respectively, we were very impressed. Here are their impressions of the night... Read more »| 25 Jun 2008
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Interviews
Hollywood's Most Wanted
The Skinny’s Man of the Year for 2007, James McAvoy, is back on our screens this month in the brilliant action extravaganza, Wanted. Based on the graphic novel by Scottish writer Mark Millar, it marks the English language debut of Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian responsible for the stunning, if insane, Night Watch and Day Watch. McAvoy took some time to tell The Skinny about his latest. Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
New Releases
Wanted
Wanted may be the first film where a nobody is turned into an unstoppable assassin as a metaphor for getting off your arse and doing something with your life... Read more »| 23 Jun 2008 -
Dvd ReviewsParis Lockdown
More Guy Ritchie than Goodfellas Read more »| 21 Jun 2008 -
Festivals
Good Dick
Most guys would love to have a girlfriend who watches porn – it means she’s really in-tune with her sexuality and pretty much gasping for it 24/7... Read more »| 20 Jun 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Untraceable
We've all visited websites we shouldn't have, usually late at night when we're on our own and feeling a little lonely. The makers of Untraceable have taken t... Read more »| 20 Jun 2008 -
Festivals
Time Crimes (Los Cronocrímenes)
A Spanish couple, recently moved in to a secluded new home, go about their business until visions of a topless girl in the trees leads husband Hector to go e... Read more »| 20 Jun 2008 -
Festivals
The Appeared (Aparecidos)
The Appeared is exactly the kind of horror rubbish the Japanese and Koreans have been churning out for years – expect an American remake any day now. A... Read more »| 20 Jun 2008 -
Festivals
Donkey Punch
Building a sense of genuine foreboding from the off, Olly Blackburn’s debut film sees three 'up-fer-it' Leeds lasses meet a group of posh boys working ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2008 -
New Releases
Teeth
A film with more bite in the visual and humour departments than any other recent coming-of-age movie Read more »| 20 Jun 2008