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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FestivalsLondon 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 -
FestivalsLondon 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 -
FestivalsLondon 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
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London Film Festival: Carol and Sunset Song
Two of our finest gay filmmakers, Todd Haynes and Terence Davies, are screening two exceptional women’s pictures, Carol and Sunset Song, at this year’s London Film Festival Read more »| 16 Oct 2015 -
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Crimson Peak
Why do you watch horror? If it's solely about preying on your primal fears through a high-concept premise, it's possible you might not get a great deal ... Read more »| 15 Oct 2015 -
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My Scientology Movie
King mischief-maker Louis Theroux opens his My Scientology Movie by saying it’s his “dream to see a more positive side of the church.” It ... Read more »| 14 Oct 2015 -
FestivalsLondon Film Festival: Son of Saul and 11 Minutes
Two new movies at London Film Festival with audacious visual storytelling, we review László Nemes' Son of Saul, and 11 Minutes by Jerzy Skolimovski. Read more »| 13 Oct 2015 -
New ReleasesThe Program
Successful athletes prove tricky subjects for character studies due to their all-consuming commitment, training so intensively that little time is left to in... Read more »| 12 Oct 2015 -
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Pan
The enduring popularity of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan character stems from a desire to reject the painful necessity of growing up, to retain innocence in the face of responsibility and compromise Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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The Lobster
The cinematic worlds that Yorgos Lanthimos creates are defined by their rules and codes of behaviour, and the drama in them comes from the consequences faced... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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Taxi Tehran
Ingeniously circumventing the Iranian state’s ban on his filmmaking, Jafar Panahi’s Golden Bear winner Taxi Tehran is filmed almost entirely with... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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Suffragette
From its opening scene set in the veritable hellscape of the Glass House Laundry, a literal sweatshop where women are forced into servitude as children and l... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015