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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New ReleasesSummer
Robert Carlyle gives a career-best performance in a deeply affecting take on two men’s friendship. Through flashbacks presented by narrator Shaun,... Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
New ReleasesJulia
Reaching the half way point of Erick Zonca’s new film, you wouldn’t be blamed for not wanting to continue much further. Enduring almost an hour ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2008 -
New ReleasesCass
Cass Read more »| 25 Nov 2008 -
Dvd ReviewsMan On Wire
Man On Wire Read more »| 25 Nov 2008 -
Film Events
New Video Art Night: As We Speak
Dziga Vertov, one of the true pioneers of experimental cinema (he made Man With A Movie Camera, after all), was once quoted as saying that the analysis of n... Read more »| 25 Nov 2008 -
Dvd ReviewsItty Bitty Titty Committee
Itty Bitty Titty Committee Read more »| 23 Nov 2008
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New Releases
The Love Guru
The Love Guru Read more »| 20 Nov 2008 -
New Releases
Waltz with Bashir
Baghdad, Kabul, Grozny, Beirut – names which evoke, more than anything, the war stricken images of televised news. Such associations make creating a d... Read more »| 17 Nov 2008 -
New Releases
Conversations with My Gardener
There’s a sense of déjà vu in this pleasant, yet predictable French drama. Our central character, a painter from Paris, returns to the vi... Read more »| 15 Nov 2008 -
New Releases
Choke
Clark Gregg's strangled adaptation of lit cult favourite Chuck Palahniuk's novel of masculine malaise really wants to be an edgy, twisted little indie satire... Read more »| 14 Nov 2008 -
New Releases
Blindness
"It feels like I'm swimming in milk." The White Sickness begins with a young professional struck blind while behind the wheel. An abrupt affliction of unkn... Read more »| 14 Nov 2008 -
Interviews
Director Olly Blackburn talks Donkey Punch
Michael Gillespie talks to up-and-coming writer-director Olly Blackburn about his debut feature, Donkey Punch, released on DVD November 10. Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Kung Fu Panda
Jack Black in a funny movie? No it’s not School Of Rock 2. Kung Fu Panda is about Po, a portly panda who works in a noodle shop with dreams of becoming... Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
Dvd Reviews
Sordid Lives
Alfred Hitchcock once said that the problem with so many movies was that they were essentially “filmed plays”. Sordid Lives is one such beast, no... Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
New Releases
Boystown
For most, Spanish cinema is Pedro Almodóvar, and while this sprightly comedy has clearly been drinking his gazpacho, it’s thankfully unspiked. T... Read more »| 10 Nov 2008