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 ReleasesA Funny Kind of Love
Josh Lawson's sexual comedy starts boldly: with the image of a naked foot approached slowly by a protruding tongue. This toe-sucking episode marks the beginn... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
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We Are Monster
In 2000, 19-year-old British-Asian Zahid Mubarek was murdered by Robert Stewart, his cellmate at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution. He was five hours away... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Monsters: Dark Continent
In the vein of the genre switch-up between Alien and Aliens, Monsters sequel Dark Continent is an action-orientated take on the setup of the more modest orig... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Girlhood
The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boyhood, but where Richard Linklater&... Read more »| 27 Apr 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Junkies, dealers, swindlers, pimps and chancers, all shimmering in the dark night. As Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez did with their decidedly masculine Si... Read more »| 27 Apr 2015 -
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
In Avengers: Age of Ultron, James Spader voices the eponymous villain, an entity of artificial intelligence that can inhabit seemingly any mechanical host ar... Read more »| 22 Apr 2015
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The Salvation
As ever, Mads Mikkelsen dominates in writer-director Kristian Levring’s classy, if brutal, western. It’s another effortlessly charismatic perform... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
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Child 44
A whole heap of classy star power can’t save Daniel Espinosa’s adaptation of Tim Rob Smith’s popular novel, the cast instead flailing about... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Following Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson here concludes his absurdist trilogy of human nature. It’s an i... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
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Lost River
Ryan Gosling draws on his favourite filmmakers to produce his debut as writer-director, an often dazzling and always thought-provoking modern fairy tale that... Read more »| 10 Apr 2015 -
New ReleasesJohn Wick
The name John Wick seems to send shivers down the spine of anyone who utters it in Chad Stahelski’s impressively lean and wry thriller, and it’s ... Read more »| 06 Apr 2015 -
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While We're Young
“For the first time, I didn’t feel like a child imitating an adult.” With While We're Young, writer-director Noah Baumbach bridges the gap ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
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Altman
The career-portrait documentary is a tricky beast to pull off. A director will be inclined to do the artist’s body of work complete justice while also ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
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The Voices
There’s an unwritten rule that has been present throughout filmmaking history: when making a movie in which an insane Ryan Reynolds talks to a sour Sco... Read more »| 17 Mar 2015 -
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White Shadow
This could have strayed close to 1962 ‘documentary’ Mondo cane or its dubious descendants, exploiting tribal customs through Golden Bough exotici... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015