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 ReleasesCaptain America : The First Avenger
With its star spangled coming attraction posters, there was a concern among non-US jingoists that Captain America: The First Avenger would arrive in cinemas ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
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Our Day Will Come
Enfant terrible of the music video world, Romain Gavras, writes and directs his feature debut, featuring perennial cinematic nutcase Vincent Cassel. The resu... Read more »| 26 Jul 2011 -
New ReleasesCars 2
The first lap around the track for the Pixar vehicle Cars was, perhaps, the only weak link in an otherwise masterful run of features from the multi-award win... Read more »| 20 Jul 2011 -
New ReleasesHorrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses offers a dastardly scenario — what if you could get away with murdering that obnoxious superior who makes your daily grind a misery? Th... Read more »| 18 Jul 2011 -
FestivalsEIFF 2011: Bobby Fischer Against the World
Recounting the life of the revered American chess master famed for his strange behaviour and seemingly unmatched ability, Bobby Fischer Against the World cen... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
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Hobo with a Shotgun
With a title like Hobo with a Shotgun, this film has a lot to live up to – and Jason Eisener's exploitation homage doesn't disappoint. Ageing cult star... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011
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Cell 211
In a film full of lobe-searing scenes, Cell 211's opening – in which a tormented prisoner improvises a blade from a cigarette butt and opens ... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
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The Tree of Life
Simultaneously the most ambitious and intimate work of Terrence Malick's career, The Tree of Life is a film unlike any other in recent American cinema. At th... Read more »| 04 Jul 2011 -
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EIFF 2011: Ghosted
Prison drama Ghosted sees sinister head-honcho jailbird Clay (Craig Parkinson) and quiet, just-want-to-do-my-time-guv con Jack (John Lynch) vie for t... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
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Countdown to Zero
There's a key scene in Countdown to Zero that shows members of the public being asked how many nuclear weapons currently exist in the world. A few make wild ... Read more »| 21 Jun 2011 -
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Bridesmaids
Recent wedding comedies (Bride Wars, 27 Dresses) have been about as enjoyable as stepping on an upturned plug, but Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids emphatically... Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
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The Messenger
Recently returned from Iraq, Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) is ordered to see out the remaining three months of his commission within the Army&r... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
New ReleasesStake Land
The darling of Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn horror festival, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land is well worth hunting down. A young boy, Martin (Connor Paolo), ... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
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Kaboom
Kaboom opens with a naked Smith (Thomas Dekker) floating down a brightly lit corridor, looking a bit confused. So he should be. He is the centre of the colle... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
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Senna
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