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 ReleasesAt 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 -
New ReleasesSin 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 -
New ReleasesLucy
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 -
New ReleasesTwo 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 -
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God Help the Girl
In the pop song format, Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch is a deft storyteller, with a couple of stanzas being all that's needed to sketch a compel... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
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The Rover
There’s nothing quite so chilling in cinema as mundane violence; violence matched for shock only by the perpetrators – and frame – demonstr... Read more »| 15 Aug 2014 -
Festivals
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Love, betrayal and escape in rural Texas drive the pulpy small-town noir We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the promising feature debut of director brothers Sim... Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
Festivals
Welcome to New York
Abel Ferrara’s blunt-force Welcome to New York is a thinly-veiled fictionalisation of the sexual assault incident that disgraced former IMF chief Domin... Read more »| 04 Aug 2014 -
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy make their cinematic debut in James Gunn’s nutso, wilfully incoherent and very, very funny romp through space an... Read more »| 30 Jul 2014