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 ReleasesMoneyball
Based on a true story, Moneyball follows the familiar sports movie formula – a team of underdogs trying to compete in the big league. Brad Pitt is typi... Read more »| 21 Nov 2011 -
New ReleasesDANCE:FILM 11: A Good Man
A blast of triumphant anger Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
New ReleasesWuthering Heights
There have been many screen versions of Wuthering Heights but we've never seen one quite like this. Andrea Arnold has brought her bold, uncompromising vision... Read more »| 07 Nov 2011 -
New ReleasesTaking Off
Between the bittersweet brilliance of A Blonde in Love and the Oscar glory of Cuckoo's Nest, Milos Forman made this riotous 1971 oddity about America’s... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
New ReleasesJack Goes Boating
Philip Seymour Hoffman makes a solid debut behind the camera with this adaptation of Robert Glaudini’s play, a suitably thespian-friendly piece for one... Read more »| 01 Nov 2011 -
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The Help
Subtlety can be oft-neglected when portraying the civil rights era cinematically and this latest Hollywood adaptation (based on Kathryn Stockett's bestseller... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011
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Weekend
Weekend is your atypical (in Movieland) boy meets boy love story. On an impromptu Friday night cruising a cheesy nightclub in unglamorous Nottingham, Russell... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
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The Yellow Sea
Here director Hong-jin Na looks beyond Hollywood’s horizon of expectation and makes the outsider cliché contemporary with a story initially livi... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay's return to cinema is an adaptation of – and an improvement upon – Lionel Shriver's best-selling novel; within the film's opening mo... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
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Tyrannosaur
Tyrannosaur opens with an act of astonishing cruelty and at times the relentless bleakness of Paddy Considine's directorial debut threatens to becomes suffoc... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
Festivals
Perfect Sense
Reunited with Ewan McGregor, Young Adam director David Mackenzie helms this high concept, pseudo-apocalyptic vision concerning the threat of a global vi... Read more »| 07 Oct 2011 -
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Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen’s latest feature is as much a love letter to Paris as Manhattan was to its namesake. The opening montage of la Ville-Lumière ac... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
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Melancholia
It's not much of a spoiler to say that Melancholia is a film about the end of the world. The movie opens with a gorgeous series of oblique images, culminatin... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
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The Green Wave
Using a vivid collage of animations, interviews and source footage, The Green Wave explores the pro-Mousavi protests that followed Ahmadinejad’s &lsquo... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
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Drive
Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher trilogy, Valhalla Rising) teams up with Ryan Gosling to produce a taut, ferocious and glossy homage to the seedy c... Read more »| 23 Sep 2011