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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Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Family Goldmine
Generally speaking, documentaries are most successful when they present viewers with one of two polarised extremes, offering either sweeping, evocative glimp... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Uzumasa Limelight
Uzumasa Limelight is a heartfelt tribute to the samurai-saturated chanbara films of Japanese cinema, particularly the largely unsung, intensely physical pros... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Still Alice
Still Alice deviates from most dramas concerned with Alzheimer’s in adopting the point of view of the sufferer, rather than devastated loved ones. Juli... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: The Grump
“It sure ruins my day when the times change.” So begins The Grump, the latest addition to a canon of films in which irritable loners find their h... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: White God
Lili loves Hagen, but Lili’s father disapproves. He kicks Hagen out on to the streets of Budapest, where he’s used and abused and thrown in the s... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Pale Moon
Set in the mid-1990s, not long after the burst of Japan’s economic bubble, Pale Moon follows Rika (Miyazawa), a demure housewife turned bank employee w... Read more »| 19 Feb 2015
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: White Bird in a Blizzard
Closer in spirit to his Mysterious Skin than The Doom Generation, White Bird in a Blizzard sees Gregg Araki adapting a Laura Kasischke novel and applying his... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: It Follows
As horror premises go, this one is delicious – a sexually transmitted curse that causes a monster to follow its victims to the death, assuming any form... Read more »| 18 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Catch Me Daddy
Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's Catch Me Daddy opens to a creation myth recited with childlike naivety over images of a windswept, almost primeval landscape. Thou... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: The New Girlfriend
Francois Ozon's favourite subject is the fluidity of sexual identity and desire. He's been playing with this theme since early short The Summer Dress ri... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Appropriate Behaviour
"That was a present," protests Shirin (writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan) when her girlfriend returns a mysterious box to her amidst an acrimonious break-... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Spun from an urban myth, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter begins by following its own original path but ultimately becomes mired in a too-familiar brand of U... Read more »| 16 Feb 2015 -
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The Duke of Burgundy
Peter Strickland follows up his chilly giallo-horror Berberian Sound Studio with something altogether warmer and sweeter – though no less strange. Set ... Read more »| 16 Feb 2015 -
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Fifty Shades of Grey
There are a number of reasons why EL James’ phenomenally successful Fifty Shades of Grey is perfect for a cinematic conversion. Quite aside from the ob... Read more »| 13 Feb 2015 -
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Coherence
The term ‘mind-bending’ is thrown about far too liberally by critics these days, lazy shorthand for anything requiring even a modicum of thought.... Read more »| 09 Feb 2015