New Releases
Here you will find an in-depth guide to new films. The Skinny offers synopsis and reviews of the latest film releases.
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New Releases
An Education
What’s this, another Brit period drama complete with a cameo by Emma Thompson? Well, yes, in one way it is, but thanks to a sensitive screenplay by Ni... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
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Tales from the Golden Age
Tales from the Golden Age is set in eighties Romania, a time when dictator Ceausescu’s rule was at its most extreme. Cristian Mungiu (4 months, 3 weeks... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
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Cold Souls
Cold Souls sees comic actor Paul Giamatti playing, curiously, a New York actor named Paul Giamatti who's getting into character for Chekhov's Uncle Vanya bu... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
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My Secret Sky - Africa in Motion Film Festival is launched
It may have only been going for four years, but the Africa in Motion (AiM) Festival is doing both its originating and host country proud. AiM’s founde... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
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Shank
Debutante director Pearce claims to have drawn this tale of a gang member coming out and cutting loose from real events. It certainly aims for urgency, its s... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Bright Star
A film about the love affair of John Keats, one of the greatest Romantic poets, could easily have portrayed the emotional intensity that courses through his ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009
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Séraphine
In the town of Senlis, 1914, a middle-aged cleaning lady and washerwoman spends her free moments collecting brush and seeds, animal blood and church candle-o... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Pontypool
Pontypool may be disguised as a zombie film, but it in fact offers a whole new take on the concept. More in keeping with the plague-ridden undead in 28 Days... Read more »| 09 Oct 2009 -
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Pandorum
When Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) wakes from hypersleep aboard the Elysium things are not looking good: the lights are out, the reactor is about to shut down,... Read more »| 08 Oct 2009 -
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Up
Up is the latest venture from animation house Pixar, destined to delight children and adults alike with its old-fashioned tale of a 78 year old who decides t... Read more »| 02 Oct 2009 -
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Crying with Laughter
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Creation
By tackling Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution Creation has taken on not only, as the film grandly describes it,“the biggest single idea in th... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
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The Beaches of Agnes
A delightful and idiosyncratic autobiographical documentary from one of cinema’s greatest directors: Agnes Varda. The Beaches of Agnes combines clips f... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
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Thirst
There have been several vampire flicks in recent months but Park Chan-wook is definitely not jumping on the band wagon; his latest gore-fest, Thirst, has bee... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
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The Agent
The premise of The Agent is simple: desperate author Stephen (Stephen Kennedy) decides to take drastic action when it becomes apparent that his agent, Alexan... Read more »| 22 Sep 2009