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 ReleasesHobo with a Shotgun
With a title like Hobo with a Shotgun, this film has a lot to live up to – and Jason Eisener's exploitation homage doesn't disappoint. Ageing cult star... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
New ReleasesCell 211
In a film full of lobe-searing scenes, Cell 211's opening – in which a tormented prisoner improvises a blade from a cigarette butt and opens ... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
New ReleasesThe Tree of Life
Simultaneously the most ambitious and intimate work of Terrence Malick's career, The Tree of Life is a film unlike any other in recent American cinema. At th... Read more »| 04 Jul 2011 -
FestivalsEIFF 2011: Ghosted
Prison drama Ghosted sees sinister head-honcho jailbird Clay (Craig Parkinson) and quiet, just-want-to-do-my-time-guv con Jack (John Lynch) vie for t... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
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Countdown to Zero
There's a key scene in Countdown to Zero that shows members of the public being asked how many nuclear weapons currently exist in the world. A few make wild ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Bridesmaids
Recent wedding comedies (Bride Wars, 27 Dresses) have been about as enjoyable as stepping on an upturned plug, but Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids emphatically... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011
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The Messenger
Recently returned from Iraq, Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) is ordered to see out the remaining three months of his commission within the Army&r... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
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Stake Land
The darling of Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn horror festival, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land is well worth hunting down. A young boy, Martin (Connor Paolo), ... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
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Kaboom
Kaboom opens with a naked Smith (Thomas Dekker) floating down a brightly lit corridor, looking a bit confused. So he should be. He is the centre of the colle... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
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Senna
In The Warrior and Far North, Asif Kapadia displayed his strength as a visual storyteller, and those same instincts are at work in Senna, the director's firs... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
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Heartbeats (Les amours imaginares)
The ridiculously talented 22 year-old actor-director Xavier Dolan follows up his 2009 festival hit I Killed My Mother with Heartbeats (Les Amours I... Read more »| 20 May 2011 -
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Win Win
Win Win is a character-driven film that is blessed with real characters; people we can understand, be interested in, and care about. That has been th... Read more »| 16 May 2011 -
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Holy Rollers
Director Kevin Asch’s first feature film follows the bizarre true story of Sam (Jesse Eisenberg), a naive and awkward Hasidic Jew embroiled in an ecsta... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
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Outside the Law
Much like his Oscar-nominated 2006 film Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law gives us an Algerian perspective on key events in French history. T... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
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Thor
Radioactive spiders, mechanised suits of armour, gamma radiated cells, genetic mutations and exposure to various ‘toxic’ chemicals; that which, i... Read more »| 06 May 2011