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 ReviewsDeath 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 ReleasesThe 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 Releases
Baby 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 ReleasesAngus, 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
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FestivalsGloss: 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 -
New Releases
Mamma 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 -
Festivals
The 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