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 ReleasesRed 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 -
New ReleasesYour 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 -
New ReleasesLittle 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 -
New ReleasesThe Roommate
Hands in the air if you’ve heard this somewhere before: Sara (Minka Kelly), a small town gal at college in the big city of LA, is overjoyed when she&rs... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
New ReleasesMeek's Cutoff
In the stark, arid landscape of the Oregon Trail, a small group of people wander aimlessly towards an uncertain destination. Kelly Reichardt's remarkable Mee... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
New ReleasesCold Fish
For a film in which giggling killers mock the size of a severed penis, Cold Fish is surprisingly restrained – at first. Passive family-man Shamoto (Mit... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011
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New ReleasesKilling Bono
For many there’ll be no more tantalising film title this year than this one based on Neil McCormick’s autobiographical tale of his rivalry with h... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
New ReleasesEssential Killing
After being detained as an enemy combatant, Taliban fighter Mohammed (Vincent Gallo) is fortuitously freed mid-rendition, forcing the escapee to endure the i... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
New ReleasesFaster
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has decided to ditch his recent demeaning, family friendly roles in favour of this retro revenge flick with a gritty 70... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
New ReleasesBallast
A work of extraordinary depth and compassion, Lance Hammer's feature debut Ballast explores the lives of three characters whose relationship with each other ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2011 -
New ReleasesWaste Land
Amid the bleak surroundings of Brazil's Jardim Gramacho, the biggest landfill in the world, Lucy Walker's Waste Land finds an inspiring true story. Her docum... Read more »| 18 Feb 2011 -
New ReleasesAnimal Kingdom
Detached, monosyllabic teen Joshua’s (Frecheville) mum has, as he puts it, “gone and OD’d and she’s dead”, so he turns to estra... Read more »| 18 Feb 2011 -
New ReleasesInside Job
Money? It’s a gas. The carnage of Wall Street gets the focus treatment in Charles Ferguson’s timely documentary about the recent global financial... Read more »| 11 Feb 2011 -
New ReleasesBrighton Rock (2010) Film Review
Over sixty years on from John Boulting’s original noir, Rowan Joffe resurrects Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, fittingly setting it within the con... Read more »| 07 Feb 2011 -
New ReleasesTrue Grit
The Dude replaces The Duke in the Coens' first pure western, with the brothers ignoring the antiquated 1969 Wayne vehicle and choosing instead to mine the Am... Read more »| 04 Feb 2011