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 ReleasesJurassic World
In one early sequence of Jurassic World, the apathetic older brother (Nick Robinson) of a pair of kids visiting the now fully-functional dinosaur theme park ... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015 -
New ReleasesThe Look of Silence
The prospect of crafting a worthy successor to the phenomenal The Act of Killing is a daunting one, but with The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer has rise... Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
New ReleasesListen Up Philip
With its portentous narration and bike-riding/book writing aesthetic, this third feature from Alex Ross Perry is a masterclass in tarnished twee. Shot on fad... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
New ReleasesMan Up
British romantic comedy Man Up has an unfortunate title in both evoking an all-too tired phrase and being quite misleading, as it’s not some man-child ... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
New ReleasesTomorrowland: A World Beyond
With The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, director Brad Bird demonstrated a keen interest in retrofuturism, a creative trend in which futuristic technology is... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
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Timbuktu
One of the many memorable sequences in Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu depicts a group of teenage boys playing football without a ball, as ball games have be... Read more »| 20 May 2015
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Tokyo Tribe
Bringing “slammin’ beats from the ass-end of hell,”, Sion Sono’s manga adaptation Tokyo Tribe is a hysterical hybrid of The Warriors,... Read more »| 14 May 2015 -
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Mad Max: Fury Road
In a cinematic landscape where every movie series of notable mainstream or cult popularity is being resurrected instead of left for dead, one figure has emer... Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
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The Tribe
The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s devastating ensemble piece, is told entirely in Ukrainian sign language, with no dialogue and no subtitles. Rather... Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
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Clouds of Sils Maria
In her youth, Maria Enders (Binoche) made her name in Maloja Snake, a play in which a young woman seduces her boss – an older woman – and drives ... Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
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A 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 -
Festivals
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 -
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Glasgow 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