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 ReleasesWeekend
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 -
New ReleasesThe 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 -
New ReleasesWe 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 -
New ReleasesTyrannosaur
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 -
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When China Met Africa
Napoleon once said, “China is a sleeping giant but when she wakes she will shake the world.” Capturing this rising titan’s strides into Afr... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
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Crazy, Stupid, Love
There's a moment in Crazy, Stupid, Love where a plot revelation is so beautifully timed it almost redeems the sheer phoniness of what has gone before, but th... Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
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Blood in the Mobile
Blood in the Mobile is a film of contrasts. The scorched heat and violence of Africa juxtaposes sharply with the glacial serenity of the Finnish Nokia HQ, al... Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
New ReleasesYou Instead
You Instead attempts to capture the sights, sounds and smells of Britain's most rambunctious music festival, T in the Park. For the most part, it’s suc... Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré’s labyrinthine, weighty tome returns as Tomas Alfredson’s intricate yet lean drama – producing one of the films of the... Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
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30 Minutes or Less
High hopes spilled from this reunion of Zombieland director and star, Ruben Fleischer and Jesse Eisenberg, but the result is a comedy crime caper centred on ... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011