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
Blind Woman's Curse
Blind Woman’s Curse opens in the most breathtaking fashion. A Yakuza Clan, tensed and snarling in torrential rain, synchronise to reveal a full dr... Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
Festivals
A Story of Children and Film
As its mimetic title might indicate, A Story of Children and Film plays more like an appendix to Mark Cousins’ encyclopaedic The Story of Film than a f... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
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Drinking Buddies
Joe Swanberg chooses to mash his gently balanced mumble-com Drinking Buddies in a Chicago microbrewery, where marketing manager Kate, rendered in baggy vests... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
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White Dog
The latest film to be given the Eureka Masters of Cinema love and care is Sam Fuller’s misunderstood and primitive parable White Dog. Scripted by Curti... Read more »| 04 Mar 2014 -
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Only Lovers Left Alive
If you have ever taken a moment to wonder what a vampire romance directed by Jim Jarmusch would look like, then Only Lovers Left Alive probably comes pretty ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2014 -
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Stranger by the Lake
When was the last time you saw an erotic thriller that worked simultaneously on both levels? Stranger by the Lake is the rare film that integrates explicit s... Read more »| 17 Feb 2014
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Bastards
Noir-infused tragedy Bastards sees director Claire Denis back in her more polarising mode as the dark queen of French cinema, with a work of bewitc... Read more »| 10 Feb 2014 -
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a love story, and it appropriately feels as if it has been made with the heart more than the head. This debut feature ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2014 -
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Her
Each of Spike Jonze’s films to date has hinged on a far-fetched premise, but, crucially, they have all possessed an insight and depth of feeling that m... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
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Dallas Buyers Club
There’s something terribly banal about Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée’s old-fashioned redemption piece about a crooked Texan bigot f... Read more »| 03 Feb 2014 -
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Blood Glacier (aka The Station)
“The gates of hell are open. We melted them,” laments Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), a technician working against climate change in the remote German ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
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Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is apparently the passion project that Peter Berg directed Battleship for, and his enthusiasm for the material is evident in every frame. The f... Read more »| 24 Jan 2014 -
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August: Osage County
William Friedkin’s last two directorial efforts (Bug and Killer Joe) were Tracy Letts adaptations, and it’s a crying shame he didn't helm the fil... Read more »| 23 Jan 2014 -
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The Armstrong Lie
The titular 'lie' refers to Lance Armstrong's use of performance-enhancing drugs in all seven of his victories at the Tour de France (since rescinded) as wel... Read more »| 22 Jan 2014 -
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Inside Llewyn Davis
The Coen brothers’ latest success is a film about failure. Llewyn Davis (Isaac) is a talented singer-songwriter barely eking out an existence in the Gr... Read more »| 20 Jan 2014