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 ReleasesBridge of Spies
Tom Hanks stars in this gripping Cold War thriller from Steven Spielberg Read more »| 24 Nov 2015 -
New ReleasesChemsex
This hard-hitting, timely documentary about London’s underground ‘chemsex’ scene started life in 2013 as a Vice article entitled “The... Read more »| 23 Nov 2015 -
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Black Mass
Johnny Depp plays real-life crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger in this mob drama full of cliched scenes and bad Boston accents Read more »| 19 Nov 2015 -
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Carol
“I’m charting the correlation between what characters say and what they mean,” says a film buff while watching Sunset Boulevard in Todd Hay... Read more »| 19 Nov 2015 -
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Tangerine
"Merry Christmas Eve, bitch!" So goes the opening line of Tangerine, a single-night screwball set on the West Hollywood strip that comes at you like a Jim Ja... Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
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John Niven on music industry satire Kill Your Friends
Ayrshire-born writer John Niven on penning music industry satire Kill Your Friends, getting the film version made, his years working as an A&R man during the rise and fall of Britpop and binning Coldplay's demo tape Read more »| 04 Nov 2015
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Brooklyn
Adapted from Colm Tóibín’s beloved novel, Brooklyn is a refreshingly old-fashioned melodrama with depths that transcend its initial light... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
New ReleasesMississippi Grind
Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds star as gamblers travelling across America in this lacklustre buddy movie Read more »| 23 Oct 2015 -
New ReleasesSpectre
Daniel Craig is back as super spy James Bond in Spectre, but the 007 franchise is back to its old, cliched ways Read more »| 23 Oct 2015 -
Festivals
London Film Festival: Steve Jobs
A breakneck Aaron Sorkin script combined with a performance of subtlety, ease and confidence from Fassbender results in a meticulously constructed character study Read more »| 21 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: Room & Queen of Earth
Two films from London Film Festival centred on female protagonists who are trapped: Alex Ross Perry's Queen of Earth and Room, based on Emma Donoghue's novel of the same name Read more »| 20 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: My Skinny Sister & Take Me to the River
Two debut features from LFF: Sanna Lenken's My Skinny Sister and Matt Sorbel's Take Me To The River. Read more »| 19 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: Yakuza Apocalypse
Takashi Miike's vampire yakuza movie has some great ideas, but overall it's a narrative and conceptual mess from the director of Audition and Ichi the Killer Read more »| 19 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: The Assassin and The Witch
Two genre films that upend audience expectation catch our eye at BFI London Film Festival: Robert Eggers' period horror The Witch and The Assassin, from great Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien Read more »| 16 Oct 2015 -
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London Film Festival: Our Little Sister & Brooklyn
We were charmed by Saoirse Ronan-starring Brooklyn and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Our Little Sister, two films concerning female protagonists making new lives for themselves, at BFI London Film Festival Read more »| 16 Oct 2015