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Cameraperson
There’s a shot midway through Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson that captures the conflict at the core of the film. In an understaffed hospital in N... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
I, Daniel Blake to close Take One Action Festival
Take One Action – the UK’s leading social change film festival – today announced that it will close this year’s event with a special ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
What to Watch this Week (24-30 Jan)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Trainspotting 2 and Hacksaw Ridge Flamingo We&... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
The Films of 2015 so far: Our mid-year report
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a miracle; similar to “the green place” MacGuffin that Charlize Theron’... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Film
What to Watch this Week (28 Nov-4 Dec)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including FKA Twigs’ Soundtrack 7, the new season of Gil... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
Best Film Screenings in the North (23-30 Sep)
The Skinny presents: Trouble Every Day With Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis immerses us in an atmosphere engorged with desire and dread. Essentially a twi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
What to Watch This Week (11-17 Jul)
Best new film in cinemas: Ghostbusters When it was announced two years ago that Paul Feig, the writer-director behind kickass, female-led comedies like Brid... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Film
What to Watch this Week (14-21 Nov)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the Ghost in the Shell trailer, Fantastic Beasts and... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
What to Watch this Week: 21-28 Nov
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including David O Russell's short Past Forward, starring Girls... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
London Film Festival 2016: The Highlights
1. Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins At a Q&A session following one of Moonlight’s public screenings at this year’s London Film Festival, dire... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
Our Favourite British Films 2010-2015
What comes to your mind we you think 'British Cinema'? Do you picture a dour room with characters indulging in bittersweet conversations while drinking tea (... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Film
What to Watch this Week (18-24 July)
The best film and TV to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, an... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
Track-by-Track: The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli unveils Do to the Beast
There was a gulf between our last album, 1965, and this one. At that point you need to reinvent. I think we always confounded expectations – it&rs... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights – January 2013
January is traditionally a bit of a featureless wasteland in the club scene, with punters too broke to go out, and promoters unwilling to gamble money on a b... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Books
The Dark Horse: Cantering into the Literary Limelight
The Dark Horse magazine is 20 years old. Hurrah. Two decades it’s been spearing out unwaveringly high-brow, hard-edged, top quality work into them... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Film
Films of 2015: Hippies, Road Warriors and STD Hauntings
Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Festivals
Snowbombing 2017: Festival Review
By the final day of many big-name music festivals (especially in the UK 'summer') the site has often descended into a muddy scene of depravity and disarray. ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Film
The 22 Must-See Films of 2016
From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Film
The Films of 2016: Love, Death and Aliens
Given recent votes, we half expected something racist and idiotic like Gerard Butler hokum Gods of Egypt to top this best films of the year poll. This drum t... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
11 of the Best Chinese Movies
24 City (2008) Dir: Jia Zhangke While many of Jia Zhangke’s modern classics have managed to provoke the Chinese ruling party, 24 City pissed off... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Film
Films of 2015: Criminally Overlooked Movies
Beyond the Lights Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood Why it's one of our overlooked movies of 2015: it went straight to DVD in the UK In a more sensible film cul... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Film
Films of 2017: The Criminally Overlooked Movies of the Year
John Wick Chapter 2 Dir. Chad Stahelski John Wick 2 will never not be underrated, even by the people who thoroughly enjoyed it. Underneath an extra... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago