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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I Am Belfast
Mark Cousins' love-letter to his hometown Read more »| 22 Feb 2016 -
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Finders Keepers
Humane documentary examining the effects of drug addiction and an obsession with reality TV fame on two men whose lives cross paths in the strangest of fashions Read more »| 22 Feb 2016 -
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Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman's first foray into stop-motion animation is a typically existential and deeply moving affair Read more »| 22 Feb 2016 -
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Office
Hong Kong action maestro Johnnie To delivers a stylish 3D musical set around the 2008 financial crash. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
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Time Out of Mind
Richard Gere plays a homeless New Yorker in this absorbing tale of urban poverty. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
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Arabian Nights and five more alternative trilogies
Superhero movies don't have the monopoly on trilogies, as Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes's three-part take on the One Thousand and One Nights tales attests. He... Read more »| 18 Feb 2016
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From Afar
First time director Lorenzo Vigas's From Afar is a gritty and cinematic study in desire and repression, set on the mean streets of Caracas, Venezuela From A... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Green Room
Punk v Nazi thriller from the mind that brought you Blue Ruin Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to Blue Ruin, trades the latter’s revenge ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Weepah Way for Now
Delightful, full-of-life drama about two sisters, played by real life siblings AJ and Aly Michalka. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Cain's Children
A compelling documentary suggesting that capitalism has proved just as oppressive to the people of Eastern Europe as communism. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Speed Sisters
Lively doc following five female drag racers in Palestine. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Doc about the famous week-long sit-down between François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock, with some contemporary auteurs explaining the interview and subsequent book's importance Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Hyena Road
Paul Gross's film shines a light on soldiering in Afghanistan, but the result is an apolitical rabble-rouser Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
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Évolution
Uncanny horror from Lucile Hadžihalilović with shades of HP Lovecraft and David Cronenberg. Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
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The Brand New Testament
Whimsical comedy imagining God as a misanthropic oaf living in Belgium. Read more »| 16 Feb 2016