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 ReviewsEden Log
In today's film universe of blue screens and CGI, Eden Log is a kick in the hard drive, matching money with painstaking set design on a shoe-string budget. O... Read more »| 23 Jul 2008 -
New Releases
The Dark Knight
At the time of writing, The Dark Knight has just had the largest opening weekend in US box office history and leapt straight to the top of the IMDb list of t... Read more »| 22 Jul 2008 -
New ReleasesBaby Mama
Re-treading the ol’ nine month story arc familiar to knocked-up waitresses called Juno and the like, Saturday Night Live alumni Tina Fey and Amy Poehle... Read more »| 18 Jul 2008 -
New Releases
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Don’t attempt to watch this film without first mentally assuming the approximate mindset of the average 14 year-old girl. Think pink and purple sparkle... Read more »| 18 Jul 2008 -
Festivals
Gloss: The Director's Cut
Billed as somewhere in the ballpark of a Russian Federate Ugly Betty - a Slavic cousin, perhaps, of The Devil Wears Prada - Gloss: The Directors' Cut was sup... Read more »| 14 Jul 2008 -
New Releases
The Apartment
The remarkable careers of Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon generated many great movies, but arguably none quite as brilliant as The Apartment, which now looks li... Read more »| 11 Jul 2008
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New ReleasesMamma Mia! Film Review
There’s a longstanding tradition in musicals for the songs to be written around the story rather than the other way round: it has to do with small thin... Read more »| 10 Jul 2008 -
New Releases
The Mist
Darabont ratchets up the tension before cutting loose with razor-sharp set pieces Read more »| 03 Jul 2008 -
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 -
Festivals
The 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 -
Festivals
Very 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 -
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