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 ReviewsThe Lion in Winter
Vicious, vitriolic, scheming, manipulative: The Lion in Winter paints a portrait of an utterly venomous royal family. King Henry II (O’Toole) lets his ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Festivals
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
A wonderfully breezy, champagne cocktail of an old-fashioned comedy, that fizzes away with all the madcap, feel-good fun of a 1930s screwball classic, Miss P... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
New ReleasesYou Don't Mess With the Zohan
'Hairdresser assassin' sounds like it could be the perfect cut. Zohan (Sandler) is Israel’s finest undercover agent, who men want to be and woman want ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
New Releases
The Rocker
Original, inspired, staggeringly unpredictable – The Rocker is none of these things and less. Feeling like a Saturday Night Live skit stretched until i... Read more »| 08 Aug 2008 -
Dvd ReviewsUnearthed
For those of you who, like me, fondly remember '80s pop legends Bros as a formative part of your early sexual development, you might be interested to learn t... Read more »| 07 Aug 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Vampire Diary
Probably made mindful only of those who thought the lesbian action in Buffy didn't quite go far enough, Vampire Diary is one of those wonderful British movie... Read more »| 05 Aug 2008
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Festivals
Elite Squad
A tough, uncompromising look at police corruption and street crime in the drug saturated favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Elite Squad blasts across the scr... Read more »| 31 Jul 2008 -
Festivals
Man On Wire
On 7 August, 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes walking on a high wire between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Centre. Though he... Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It seems every other review I'm writing these days is loaded with “best such-and-such ever”, but in the case of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, e... Read more »| 25 Jul 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Death Note
A notebook falls from the sky into the path of too-cool-for-school law student Light (Fujiwara). Its opening page explains that if someone's name is written ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2008 -
Festivals
The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema Of Dreams
Move over Cannes, Edinburgh and Co - prepare to have the glam replaced by jam. In August the North East town of Nairn hosts a new film festival, inspired by ... Read more »| 23 Jul 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Eden 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