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
The Merry Gentleman
If every good festive film requires a dollop of misery to counter the sparkles, The Merry Gentleman certainly fits the bill. When Kate (Kelly MacDonald), a y... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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Me and Orson Welles
Me and Orson Welles begins with actor Richard (Zac Effron) seeking out the great Orson Welles for work. Seeing in his Haribo-boy face the perfect fo... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
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The Box
If a stranger left a box at your door, offering you a million dollars to push a button that results in the death of someone you don’t know, wou... Read more »| 30 Nov 2009 -
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Law Abiding Citizen
Since 9/11, Hollywood has been resistant to give us the kind of evil geniuses who dominated genre cinema throughout the nineties, no doubt because Am... Read more »| 27 Nov 2009 -
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Bunny and the Bull
Bunny and the Bull is the authorial debut of Paul King, best known for directing The Mighty Boosh and Darkplace - inevitable but deceptive touchstone... Read more »| 25 Nov 2009 -
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Paranormal Activity
Continuing the budgeting tradition of Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity is the similarly marketed, much-hyped story of young couple Kate Featherstone and Mica... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009
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Orzel
Is it art or film? It's both, and painfully exciting. Gareth K Vile reviews 85a and LowSalt's recent performance event. Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
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A Serious Man
Larry Gropnik (Stuhlbarg) is a midwestern Jewish physics professor and 1967’s answer to Job. He has a cheating wife, an incapacitated brother, ... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
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Harry Brown
One of the most morally debateable films of recent months, Harry Brown is a vigilante thriller which treads dangerously close to empty sensationalism. After... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
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The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning film The White Ribbon, set in rural Germany in 1913, depicts the disintegration of a small community as viole... Read more »| 13 Nov 2009 -
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The Informant!
In The Informant!, Matt Damon plays straitlaced company rep Marc Whitacre who is desperate to take the top spot at big corn company ADM. He believes he's fou... Read more »| 02 Nov 2009 -
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Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
During the early 1960s, a time when the whole world was looking to France for exciting and challenging films, one director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, embarked o... Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
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An Education
What’s this, another Brit period drama complete with a cameo by Emma Thompson? Well, yes, in one way it is, but thanks to a sensitive screenplay by Ni... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
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Tales from the Golden Age
Tales from the Golden Age is set in eighties Romania, a time when dictator Ceausescu’s rule was at its most extreme. Cristian Mungiu (4 months, 3 weeks... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
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Cold Souls
Cold Souls sees comic actor Paul Giamatti playing, curiously, a New York actor named Paul Giamatti who's getting into character for Chekhov's Uncle Vanya bu... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009