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 ReleasesTony Benn: Will and Testament
“Life is like a pebble dropped in a pool.” So muses Tony Benn near the start of this heartfelt look back on his life. If this is true, the late M... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
New ReleasesLife After Beth
Life After Beth is a romantic zombie comedy drama. Or, as anyone fond of cinematic abbreviations might say, a rom-zom-com-dram. Dane DeHaan plays Zach, a gri... Read more »| 29 Sep 2014 -
New ReleasesMaps to the Stars
Maps to the Stars is not a coherent whole, but rather an assemblage of sadistic caricatures of various Hollywood types – the washed-up and neurotic for... Read more »| 22 Sep 2014 -
FestivalsA Most Wanted Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman dominates as German spy-master Gunther Bachmann in Anton Corbijn’s old-school espionage yarn, based on John le Carré&rsqu... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
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A Dangerous Game
In Anthony Baxter’s 2011 documentary You’ve Been Trumped, a group of residents of Aberdeenshire opposed Donald Trump and his attempts to transfor... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
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At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman's films are the purest examples of documentary filmmaking that it's possible to find. There are no onscreen captions in his films, no music... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014
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Bad Neighbours
What do you do if the neighbours won’t keep the noise down? New parents Mac (Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Byrne) are faced with this problem in Nicholas St... Read more »| 05 Sep 2014 -
New ReleasesThe Guest
Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett turn their gaze on the creepy stranger sub-genre after deconstructing the slasher movie in last year’s Y... Read more »| 04 Sep 2014 -
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Art Party
As a piece of filmmaking, the strengths and flaws of Art Party are very much intertwined. In depicting Smith and cohorts on their real-life trip to 2013... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
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Finding Fela!
The documentaries that roll off the Alex Gibney production line tend to be at their best when the filmmaker is investigating a big story. Films like Mea Maxi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
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Attila Marcel
The last few years have seen some of modern animation’s most acclaimed directors make forays into live action. Notably Brad Bird and Andrew Stanto... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
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Obvious Child
Hollywood films have famously shown great reluctance to engage with the issue of abortion in an honest way, so the frankness of Gillian Robespierre’s d... Read more »| 25 Aug 2014 -
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Belated (and noticeably cheaper-looking) Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For opens with the line, “This doesn’t look good at all. I’ve gone ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
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Lucy
Rock legends Spinal Tap once philosophised that there’s a fine line between stupid and clever, and Luc Besson’s loony Lucy may be the filmic epit... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
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Two Days, One Night
A new picture from the Dardenne brothers is always something to treasure; the Belgian filmmakers sprinkle tiny morsels of humanist truth and insight ove... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014