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 ReleasesSenna
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 -
New ReleasesHeartbeats (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 -
New ReleasesWin 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 -
New ReleasesOutside 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
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Attack the Block
Attack the Block opens on a scene as prosaic as any social realist film, with a gang of hoodies (the kind of kids that give Daily Mail readers palpitations) ... Read more »| 05 May 2011 -
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Insidious
Inadvertently inventing torture-porn can’t be the proudest moment in the careers of James Wan and Leigh Whannell, respectively the director and writer ... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
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Hanna
Atonement director Joe Wright makes a side-step into the assassin sub-genre with Hanna. It stars Saoirse Ronan as the titular cute-but-deadly teenager who's ... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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Marwencol / Village of the Dolls
Eleven years ago, Mark Hogancamp was beaten into a coma, wiping his memories. Unable to pay for professional therapy, Mark built the tiny titular town of Mar... Read more »| 01 May 2011 -
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
A whimsical, exposition-spouting narrator is something English speaking audiences have come to think of as de rigueur in French cinema, possibly in the same ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2011 -
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Pina
A long-held passion project of director Wim Wenders, who had planned a collaboration with renowned choreographer Pina Bausch before her untimely death in 200... Read more »| 18 Apr 2011 -
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Red Riding Hood
The critical reception from the US may be scary enough to keep filmgoers out of the big, dark multiplex this month as Red Riding Hood hits our screens. This ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2011 -
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Your Highness
It’s a shame that boys will be boys, because it’s the relentless stream of smutty schoolboy jokes that threaten to spoil what’s actually a ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
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Little White Lies
Guillaume Canet’s follow-up to Tell No One is a change of pace, from intense thriller to ensemble comedy-drama, but it's no less compelling. Starring F... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011