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 ReleasesParanormal 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 -
New ReleasesHarry 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 -
New ReleasesThe 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 -
New ReleasesThe 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 -
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My Secret Sky - Africa in Motion Film Festival is launched
It may have only been going for four years, but the Africa in Motion (AiM) Festival is doing both its originating and host country proud. AiM’s founde... Read more »| 26 Oct 2009 -
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Shank
Debutante director Pearce claims to have drawn this tale of a gang member coming out and cutting loose from real events. It certainly aims for urgency, its s... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Bright Star
A film about the love affair of John Keats, one of the greatest Romantic poets, could easily have portrayed the emotional intensity that courses through his ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Séraphine
In the town of Senlis, 1914, a middle-aged cleaning lady and washerwoman spends her free moments collecting brush and seeds, animal blood and church candle-o... Read more »| 21 Oct 2009 -
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Pontypool
Pontypool may be disguised as a zombie film, but it in fact offers a whole new take on the concept. More in keeping with the plague-ridden undead in 28 Days... Read more »| 09 Oct 2009