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Few films so evocatively capture the confusion and self-discovery of childhood than those of French filmmaker Céline Sciamma. Her debut feature, Water... Read more »

TBEMH opens with a series of subversions. Half-a-dozen grey-haired archetypes (including Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith) stick two fingers up t... Read more »

Today’s cinema is obsessed with the past. In the last twelve months filmgoers have been transported back to 20s Paris, the golden age of Hollywood, and... Read more »

Avoid basements – that’s what cinema has taught us. It is the room of the house reserved for horror, and that’s its function in Michael, Ma... Read more »

Through a haze of marijuana smoke we’re introduced to Jason Segel’s Jeff, a 30-year-old galumph who makes the actor’s earlier man-child cha... Read more »

Electronic two-piece High Places, aka Rob Barber and Mary Pearson, are in playful mood when they speak to The Skinny from their LA studio ahead of their upco... Read more »

Haywire is the kind of lucid thriller Paul Greengrass might make if he ever invested in a tripod. Breakneck action with graceful, but nasty, fight sequences ... Read more »

Cinema can be a passive experience, with the audience members voyeurs left to interpret images and ideas alone in the dark. But for a piece of art to live it... Read more »

What a difference twelve months make. This time last year, selecting a film to see at Edinburgh's 65th International Film Festival was a bit like choosing wh... Read more »

Motion pictures have a lot to answer for. They lie to us, to contradict Godard, at 24 frames a second. Think of all the poor kids who put themselves through ... Read more »

The standout moment in Take This Waltz, the second feature from Canadian actor-turned-director Sarah Polley, takes place on a cheesy fairground rid... Read more »

“It’s time to redraw the map of movie history that we have in our heads; it’s factually inaccurate, and racist by omission.” So says ... Read more »

Everything or Nothing is a breezy document of the James Bond franchise (books, television and movies) that’s as well-put-together as its iconic title c... Read more »

You’ve got to feel for Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney), the lead character and narrator of Hyde Park on Hudson. Not only is her kissing cousin, President ... Read more »

“You can be simultaneously attracted to and repulsed by something,” drawls Harmony Korine down the phone while on his recent visit to London prom... Read more »

My interview with Eran Creevy begins with a pitch. “Someone should do a hit-man movie with [Peter] Mullan,” he enthuses when we sit down to speak... Read more »

This candy-coloured delirium opens with a wet and wild montage of well endowed young women gyrating in slow motion as Neanderthal jocks cascade cheap lager o... Read more »

My conversation with Olivier Assayas, the mercurial director of Boarding Gate (sadomasochistic thriller), Irma Vep (movie meta-satire) and 2010's Carlos... Read more »

Cinema’s great trick is that it lets us live more lives than a sack full of Hindu cats. From the safety of a darkened auditorium we can go to war, batt... Read more »

In the world of cinema, Richard (Jack Reynor), the 18-year-old title character in Lenny Abrahamson’s hugely impressive third feature, is an anomaly. He... Read more »

Byzantium, the new movie from Neil Jordan, wasn't written by the Irish filmmaker (the scribe is Moira Buffini, adapting her own play A Vampire Story), but yo... Read more »

Neil Jordan loves a myth. His best movies (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Company of Wolves) are dreamy fairy tales with one toe in reality. The sensual and... Read more »

Tonight, in Liverpool’s Lady Chapel, an intimate annexe to the cavernous Liverpool Cathedral, Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and Video Jam celebrate what... Read more »

A cursory glance at the new movie from Andrew Bujalski, which centres on a programming tournament taking place at a crummy hotel in the early 80s, where men ... Read more »

Andrew Bujalski’s name might not be on every film fan's lips, but it is likely to live on in future cinema history textbooks. Not necessarily for his f... Read more »

Sylvain Chomet makes a perfect headline act for the UK’s annual celebration of French cinema, particularly for Francophiles north of the border. Few fi... Read more »

The history of cinema is littered with spirits. Actors long dead remain young and luminous when projected, their images ghosts that haunt the silver screen. ... Read more »

It’s always reductive to glibly compare one filmmaker to another, but if I were to commit that cardinal sin for Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer I w... Read more »

One of our chief aims here at The Skinny is to shine a torch on the great creative events happening in the Northwest that might go unnoticed by those who don... Read more »

Bryan Singer’s return to the X-Men franchise opens on a familiar movie dystopia: grey skies are patrolled by murderous shape-shifting robots (called se... Read more »