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
To Rome With Love
Woody Allen attempts to replicate some of the magic from last year’s delightful Midnight In Paris by returning to a fabled old European city and addres... Read more »| 14 Sep 2012 -
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Keyhole
Guy Maddin’s latest is, loosely, a haunted Odyssey set in a decrepit, (meta)physically imposing mansion and populated by ghosts and gangsters. Its... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
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The Sweeney
It’s The Sweeney, son… and it’s nowhere near as bad as you fink it is. Ray Winstone is Regan, snarling and punching his way through a miss... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
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The Victim
When you've fought killer robots from the future, aliens with acid for blood and flesh-eating zombies, what do you do next? Veteran genre actor Michael Biehn... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
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Lawless
John HIllcoat’s thriller, from a messy script by Nick Cave, charts the exploits of a family of Virginian bootleggers during Prohibition as their operat... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
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Tabu
Tabu explores the interlaced nexuses between memory, cinema and fable Read more »| 03 Sep 2012
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Festivals
Berberian Sound Studio
Director Peter Strickland toys with the audience as a cat would with a mouse in this mysterious film dealing in horror and nightmares Read more »| 27 Aug 2012 -
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Shadow Dancer
A taut, sinewy thriller from Man on Wire director James Marsh Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
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The Imposter
Deception and denial go hand-in-hand in this haunting documentary Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
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Take This Waltz
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 »| 16 Aug 2012 -
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King of Devil's Island
This film sits alongside the Devil’s Island of Henri Charriere’s Papillon, forming an archipelago of punishment and retribution. The settin... Read more »| 15 Aug 2012 -
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360
Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde is a play with a perfect cyclical structure, and it has already inspired one film masterpiece with Max Ophüls' seductively ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2012 -
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Jackpot
The success of Headhunters suggested an inevitability to Jo Nesbø’s canon being mined for more dark tales to turn into modestly budgeted, easy t... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
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Brave
Pixar takes a turn to fairytale-telling, princess protagonist-leading animation with Brave. Set in the Scottish Highlands, fiery-headed Merida (Kelly MacDona... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
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The Forgiveness of Blood
From Colombian drug-mules in debut Maria Full of Grace to Balkan blood feuds in The Forgiveness of Blood, American director Joshua Marston again uses an out... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012