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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FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Mommy
Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy, could be viewed as a companion piece to his debut I Killed My Mother, with a comparison between the two films highl... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Wild Tales
Cosmic airline coincidence begets claustrophobic violence begets matrimonial mayhem in this portmanteau feature from Damián Szifrón. Co-produce... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: The Town That Dreaded Sundown
A winking remake-cum-sequel of a 1976 slasher, itself based on a real case from 30 years previously, sounds like an exercise in meta-reflexive backslappery t... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: I Need a Dodge! Joe Strummer on the Run
Back in 1985, The Clash frontman Joe Strummer didn't have the luxury of being dead and revered. In fact he was regarded by many as an embarrassing anachronis... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow 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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FestivalsGlasgow 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