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Craig is passionate about film and film criticism. Loving a wide range of films he is a keen film festival attendee, enjoying finding new and exciting films from film-makers across the world. Follow him on Twitter @cskinner.
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(This article contains some minor spoilers for Django Unchained and be warned that most of the clips included are NSFW) Like many of Tarantino’s previous films Django Unchained is filled to the brim with film references. Below I’ve attempted to guide you through some of these references and links to other films. I’ve only seen the film once at [...]
An almost unbelievable story regarding a gross miscarriage of justice arrives in UK cinemas this week. Directed by Amy Berg, the documentary West of Memphis tells the story of the West Memphis Three (Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley), three boys convicted of murder in Arkansas in 1993. I reviewed the film at the London Film Festival (you [...]
18-year-old Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord) is a very disturbed teenager, even more so than the average teenager. She even quips at one point though, “I don’t know of a teenager who doesn’t profile as a socio-path…”. Pauline is exactly the kind of child her mother, played with pointed prudishness by Traci Lords, doesn’t want. When presented with this problem child, [...]
Excision opens in limited UK cinemas this Friday and is well worth hunting down. A fascinating film from first time director Richard Bates Jr., Excision is adapted from a short he made in 2008 and tells the story of a rather disturbed teenager named Pauline. Played by AnnaLynne McCord, Pauline is troubled in many ways [...]
Rust and Bone impressed me greatly when I first saw it in Cannes earlier this year (you can read my review here) and it has really stayed with me since. I powerfully emotional film Rust and Bone tells a tale of human interaction in a melodramatic but incredibly resonant way. I attended a roundtable with [...]
Zaytoun, directed by Eran Riklis, is a conceptually interesting film. Bringing to mind ‘buddy movie’ plotting the story focuses on an Israeli fighter pilot and a Palestinian boy who form a bond whilst on the run together across Lebanon. I was lucky enough to speak to Eran Riklis at the London Film Festival and he was both candid [...]
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is the subject of Room 237, a documentary that seeks to present a number of theories surrounding the film and its maker. Laid out like a visual essay Room 237 uses audio recordings of theorists and mixes them with footage from The Shining and a number of other films to explore the idea that the [...]
Taking its name from the descriptor for a particular type of television programme, the name itself was already something of a misnomer before director Matteo Garrone got his hands on it, Reality tells the tale of a working class Neapolitan fishmonger who sees a chance for stardom and throws himself into making it happen. Opening [...]
Originally titled The Surrogate, The Sessions feels like something of an anomaly in the 21st century; a smart, humorous mainstream American film about sex that’s made for grown ups, not teenagers and adults suffering a chronic case of arrested development. Despite this rather refreshing starting point the film does disappointment somewhat in the degree to [...]
Recognisable leads plucked from successful U.S. Television series? Check. Female lead who spends the majority of the film suffering humiliation all in order to ‘grow’? Check. Female lead acting in an entirely clueless way about things that she would almost certainly easily comprehend? Check. Gay best friend who appears to have no life beyond the female lead? Check. Marriage scene [...]
Thought lost for eighty years Ernst Lubitsch’s silent epic The Loves of Pharaoh, originally released in 1922, is now playing as part of the wonderful ‘Treasures’ strand in this year’s London Film Festival. Compiled from multiple prints the film has undergone an impressive restoration by the Bundesarchiv, The Munich Film Museum and George Eastman House, [...]
Music biopics so often get it drastically wrong, from over enthusiastic hagiography to a complete lack of understanding of the subject of the film, the missteps often quickly mount up. Significant blunders in these films are far more common than redeeming qualities but, thankfully, Good Vibrations is one of the better ones. Focusing not on [...]
Based on The Boy in the Back Row by Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga, Francois Ozon’s latest is something of a return to form for the former enfant terrible and a deliciously witty story about storytelling. Weary literature teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) finds a diamond in the rough in Claude (Ernst Umhauer), who shows real flair [...]
An appalling and heinous crime occurred in 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three eight year-old boys were murdered and their bodies left in a creek bed, naked and hog-tied. The murder shook the local residents and the police force, everyone unable to comprehend how this happened and who could have done such a thing. Influenced [...]
Seemingly back making films at a breakneck pace Takashi Miike makes it clear with For Love’s Sake (Ai To Makoto) that 13 Assassins and Harakiri, his recent period samurai remakes, were examples of him branching out further, rather than a full-blown new direction. That’s not to say that Miike is fully back to approaching the [...]
Good or indeed great films about older couples seem to be something of a rarity, but there are those unique films that tackle the subject with elegance and intelligence. Masterpieces such as Make Way for Tomorrow and Tokyo Story immediately come to mind and Michael Haneke’s latest, Amour, now earns a place alongside those very [...]
I first saw Lawless in Cannes earlier this year and was greatly impressed by the film, in particular how technically solid it was (you can read my full review here). So, when I was given the opportunity to speak to its director, John Hillcoat, I took the chance to get into some of the specifics [...]
First some back-story. In September 2010 I wrote a piece entitled ‘5 Reasons To Be Excited About Knights of Badassdom‘. Knights of Badassdom, a sophomore film from director Joe Lynch, was something that I was greatly looking forward, I still am, and truth be told I could have easily found another five reasons to add to that list. [...]
Todd Solondz’ latest feature, Dark Horse, arrives in UK cinemas this week and I was lucky enough to speak to the director about the film and also his previous features.. I first saw Dark Horse at the London Film Festival, you can find my review here, and was greatly impressed with the fluid and insular storytelling, which [...]
Back in 2009 there seemed to be a real sense of excitement and anticipation from horror fans who were itching to see Dario Argento’s latest, the portentously entitled Giallo. Then the film screened. It was met with derision, laughter and waves of disappointment and it struggled to find a release in some territories, not helped [...]