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 ReleasesSelma
No Hollywood filmmaker has dared portray the immense legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. until now. It's easy to see why: how do you do justice to a latter-day... Read more »| 02 Feb 2015 -
New ReleasesBig Hero 6
Set in gorgeously-designed futuristic city San Fransokyo, the world of Disney superhero animation Big Hero 6 is one big mishmash of Asian and American cultur... Read more »| 29 Jan 2015 -
New ReleasesTales of the Grim Sleeper
Documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield is a sort of pop-cultural nomad. In past efforts he’s bumbled after Sarah Palin and Tupac. Alongside Republicans ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2015 -
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
Reuniting the director, chief screenwriter and source material scribe of Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Mark Millar respectively), Kingsman:... Read more »| 28 Jan 2015 -
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Beyond Clueless
Do you ever wish the likes of EuroTrip and The Craft received the same kind of forensic critical scrutiny reserved for canonised classics? Charlie Lyne certa... Read more »| 23 Jan 2015 -
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A Most Violent Year
Set in New York in 1981 (the city’s most violent year on record), writer-director J.C. Chandor’s third film focuses on aspirational heating ... Read more »| 23 Jan 2015
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New ReleasesThe Gambler
Mark Wahlberg sheds the pounds and dusts off his best give-me-awards face to play Jim Bennett, a silver-spooned and self-destructive English professor whose ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2015 -
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Ex Machina
In Ex Machina, Caleb (Gleeson) is an impressionable computer programmer sequestered to his mega rich genius boss Nathan’s (Isaac) remote Alaskan palace... Read more »| 21 Jan 2015 -
New ReleasesInherent Vice
As we watch Joaquin Phoenix’s shambling, stoned detective saunter aimlessly through a labyrinthine plot in 1970s LA, it’s easy to see why Robert ... Read more »| 19 Jan 2015 -
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American Sniper
Clint Eastwood brings his typically fat-free directorial style to this biopic of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle. In many ways, his simplicity of approach and fo... Read more »| 15 Jan 2015 -
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Whiplash
It’s rare in cinema to have an experience that's equally physically exhausting and intellectually nourishing; to walk away drained, dumbstruck, by the ... Read more »| 12 Jan 2015 -
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Wild
Jean-Marc Vallée has certainly been keeping busy, with this adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir sandwiched between last year&rsquo... Read more »| 12 Jan 2015 -
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National Gallery
Frederick Wiseman spent months editing the reams of footage he shot on location, but what's remarkable about the finished product is how effortless it feels.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
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Foxcatcher
With Foxcatcher, director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) explores the odd, tense relationship between brothers and Olympic champion wrestlers Mark and Da... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
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Enemy
Very much a mood piece, this enigmatic offering from Denis Villeneuve is set beneath a canopy of tangled streetcar lines in an oppressively foggy Toronto. It... Read more »| 30 Dec 2014