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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CineskinnyThe Matrix turns 20 and technology is still to be feared
With your personal data being sold wholesale and election tampering from afar, there's never been a better time to reappraise the pop philosophy and cyberpunk kung fu of The Matrix Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
CineskinnyPrivate Dicks: Under the Silver Lake and film noir
Under the Silver Lake is David Robert Mitchell's shaggy riff on the film noir, but it's hardly the first film to play with the codes of the private detective movie. Here are cinema's other feckless sleuths Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesPiercing
Nicolas Pesce returns with more bleakly comic horror, with Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska as the superb central pairing Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesMonos
A squad of teen soldiers on a mysterious mission turn on each other in knockout survivalist movie Monos, from Colombian-Ecuadorian filmmaker Alejandro Landes Read more »| 15 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesHigh Flying Bird
Netflix's High Flying Bird is an inside-basketball drama inventively shot by Steven Soderbergh on the iPhone, and it's a sports movie unlike any that have come before Read more »| 14 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsBo Burnham on Eighth Grade, teens and the internet
Comedian and early YouTube celebrity Bo Burnham makes his writing and directing debut with Eighth Grade, a tender, funny teen movie; we speak to him about presenting kids realistically and what most films about the web miss Read more »| 14 Feb 2019
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IntersectionsRom-Coms As A Dating Guide for a Young Gay Man
A writer explores how the leading ladies of rom-coms became his guide for dating as a young gay man Read more »| 14 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsJoe Cornish on The Kid Who Would Be King
The Attack The Block director on his all-new family film, his experiences with Hollywood, and the 'hereditary privilege' at the heart of fantasy storytelling Read more »| 14 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesBerlinale 2019: Knives and Skin
You've never seen a coming-of-age film quite like Jennifer Reeder's wild and imaginative teen movie Knives and Skin Read more »| 13 Feb 2019 -
New ReleasesMid90s
Jonah Hill becomes the latest Hollywood star to move behind the camera with Mid90s; a coming of age film centred on a 13-year-old boy who falls in with an LA skate gang, it's an impressive and stylish directorial debut Read more »| 13 Feb 2019 -
InterviewsSimon Amstell on his new film Benjamin
In his tender new comedy Benjamin, Simon Amstell fictionalises the most anxious parts of himself to explore his own burgeoning filmmaking career, love life and ideas of masculine identity Read more »| 11 Feb 2019 -
OpinionBohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite and LGBTQ+ portrayals
Two films with queer protagonists – Bohemian Rhapsody and The Favourite – are in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars and Bafta awards. Only one, however, treats their character's sexuality with both the casualness and respect they deserve Read more »| 08 Feb 2019 -
Dvd ReviewsDave Made a Maze
Whimsical indie adventure about an artist who finds himself and his friends lost in a labyrinthian artwork of his own creation Read more »| 08 Feb 2019 -
Dvd ReviewsRosa Luxemburg
Margarethe von Trotta's celebrated biopic of socialist writer and activist Rosa Luxemburg comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 08 Feb 2019 -
FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival announce 2019 programme
The Green Fog, Guy Maddin’s riff on Vertigo, and TERROR NULLIUS, Soda_Jerk’s remix of Australian film history, are among the highlights of Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 12th edition Read more »| 07 Feb 2019