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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FestivalsScottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival
The 2nd annual Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival proves it's got more than just a tongue twisting title. Read more »| 25 Sep 2008 -
Dvd ReviewsSmart People
University professor and widower Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) ekes out a self-centred existence, blind to his children's problems and students' questio... Read more »| 24 Sep 2008 -
New Releases
Taken
Tramping its size 10s in the footsteps of James Bond and Jason Bourne is this highly entertaining – if highly unoriginal – thriller starring Liam... Read more »| 18 Sep 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Westworld
A consequence-free environment with a disposable android population, Westworld is the theme park of the future where the most illicit and amoral of wild-west... Read more »| 17 Sep 2008 -
New ReleasesFaintheart
Brought to us by the unlikely combination of MySpace and Film4, Faintheart is a moderately entertaining British comedy. Eddie Marsan plays the loveable Richa... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Logan's Run
In this post-apocalyptic society, every aspect of life is cared for by the computer that controls the hermetically sealed cities. There is no work, just play... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008
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Dvd Reviews
XXY
The tense confusion of something unspoken is thick from the opening credits of XXY. Lack of understanding is at the heart of every single frame of the film:... Read more »| 11 Sep 2008 -
New ReleasesThe Wave
Professor Wegner (Vogel) has been roped into teaching autocracy as part of project week at his school. His students are a mix of goths, bullies and cool kids... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
The Two Sides of the Bed
Following on from 2002's The Other Side of the Bed (El Otro Lado de la Cama), Emilio Martinez Lazaro's sequel of sorts is exactly the sort of plush, Spanish ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2008 -
News
September Film News
Edinburgh Filmhouse Alongside a couple of literary adaptations in the shape of Keira Knightley’s latest costume drama The Duchess (Fri 5 Sep – T... Read more »| 29 Aug 2008 -
Interviews[REC] on the Record
Jaume Balagueró, co-director of the terrifying [REC], takes some time out from writing the sequel to talk to The Skinny about the Spanish horror masterpiece, out on DVD recently Read more »| 26 Aug 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Under the Volcano
Adapted from Malcolm Lowry's 'unadaptable' 1947 novel, Under the Volcano gave Albert Finney one of the five Oscar nominations of his career, and brought dire... Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Awake
After 84 minutes, chances are you won’t be awake watching this debut but instead drooling on the person next to you. Millionaire Clayton (Christensen) ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
New Releases
The Strangers
In The Strangers, a simple-enough plot revolves around a couple returning to their home in the country. But once back, their every move is watched, by strang... Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Fashion Victims
Despite its vague billing as a risque German 'gay interest' comedy, Fashion Victims is in truth a far straighter affair than the rainbow titles and sartorial... Read more »| 22 Aug 2008