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: The Ninth Cloud
For every individual of genuine artistic vision, there are great crowds of those who simply want to claim the title of 'artist', don the costume and enjoy th... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Man from Reno
Tired of her latest book tour, crime novelist Aki (Fujitani) high-tails it from Japan to San Francisco for some peace and quiet. There she meets a seductive ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Spring
The sophomore feature from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Spring is a body horror tale for the hopeless romantic.Stuck in a personal tailspin af... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Rosewater
Absurdity is Jon Stewart's weapon of choice in his directorial debut, Rosewater. It recounts the ordeals of London-based Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari (Be... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Stray Dog
Ronnie 'Stray Dog' Hall caught director Debra Granik's eye while playing a minor role in her acclaimed Winter's Bone, and it's easy to see why she kept watch... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Burroughs: The Movie
While this examination of renowned American oddball William Burroughs presents viewers with something approaching a linear narrative, its fragmented tone cal... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015
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FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Tender
The volunteers and staff of the Port Kembla Community Centre, located in a economically depressed Australian steel town on the stunning New South Wales coast... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Phoenix
Phoenix opens like a horror movie. A disfigured woman, her face swaddled in bloody bandages, is crossing the German border following the fall of the Third Re... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2015: The Boy and the World
Alê Abreu's The Boy and the World begins with a blank white screen and revels in the infinite freedom before it like a kid let loose with crayons. Craf... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
New ReleasesBlackhat
Cyber terrorism thriller Blackhat sees director Michael Mann continuing to explore themes found in his earlier works like Heat and Thief, but with a firm foo... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
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 -
FestivalsGlasgow 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 -
FestivalsGlasgow 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