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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 »

With this second feature, John Cassavetes married the brio of his blistering debut, Shadows, with the sleek style of the studio system. The results are succe... Read more »

Kim Ki-duk's recent films have been as ugly in form as they have been in content. Moebius, his latest psychosexual drama, is no different. Shot hand-hel... Read more »

Life Itself is both an unflinching document of the last days of film critic Roger Ebert’s life and a densely packed celebration of his career. The form... Read more »

Familial relationships have proved a rich source of inspiration for filmmakers over the years; Oedipal tensions, Electra complexes and sibling rivalries are ... Read more »

Pollyanna McIntosh is talking a mile a minute as we walk through the lobby of the Manchester hotel that's her base while in town for Grimmfest, the Northwest... Read more »

Cold in July / The Guest (for children of the 80s) There was a distinctly 80s vibe on our cinema screens this year. Not that we’re complaining if th... Read more »

No genre is more derivative than that of horror. So rote are these scary movies that all one need do to score satirical points against them is point out thei... Read more »

Eden, the new film from French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve, tells the story of Paul, a DJ, and follows his turbulent 20-year career on the French Touch ... Read more »

Mia Hansen-Løve is sitting legs folded, Buddha-like, on a straight back chair in a London hotel conference room. In her hand she’s unconsci... Read more »