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 ReleasesLove at First Fight / Les Combattants
There’s an unsettling streak of casual brutality running through Thomas Cailley’s impressive feature debut – tellingly, the film’s Fr... Read more »| 11 Nov 2014 -
New ReleasesLife Itself
Life Itself is both an unflinching document of the last days of film critic Roger Ebert’s life and a densely packed celebration of his career. The form... Read more »| 10 Nov 2014 -
New ReleasesInterstellar
Former King of the Blockbuster Steven Spielberg was originally attached to direct Interstellar, and we can only imagine what his innate humanism would h... Read more »| 05 Nov 2014 -
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Leviathan
Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan is a film hunting big game. His fourth feature presents modern Russia as a country rotten to its core – corrupt, hypocri... Read more »| 05 Nov 2014 -
New ReleasesNaked City
Jules Dassin’s absorbing 1948 potboiler The Naked City is sometimes billed as a film noir. It’s actually much more concerned with the nitty-gritt... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
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Hide Your Smiling Faces
Death is introduced early in this US indie, with an opening shot that features a snake ingesting its prey. Its presence then lingers through every frame that... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014
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Youth of the Beast
In 1968, Japanese director Seijun Suzuki saw his long-standing contract with the Nikkatsu studio terminated for repeatedly turning routine potboiler scripts ... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
FestivalsSet Fire to the Stars
In the centenary year of his birth, there’ll be no shortage of screen depictions of Dylan Thomas. Already in 2014, he’s been surveyed by BBC dram... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
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The Skeleton Twins
“Maybe we were doomed from the beginning.” So says bored dental hygienist Maggie (Wiig) in voiceover at the opening of The Skeleton Twins, before... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
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Rabid Dogs
Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s grindhouse thriller Rabid Dogs (1974) ironically wasn’t released until long after the grindhouse was sent to ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
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Horns
An adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel of the same name, Horns is a fantasy fable that works well for scattered stretches of its very bloated runtime, but i... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
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Nightcrawler
Screenwriter Dan Gilroy makes a ferocious directorial debut with Nightcrawler (which he also wrote), a unique hybrid of ghoulish comedy, L.A. noir, news medi... Read more »| 30 Oct 2014 -
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Bustin' Back Into Cinemas: Ghostbusters' 30th Anniversary
It's been thirty years since they grappled with evil on the streets of Manhattan, but watching Ghostbusters today it's as funny as ever. With a new movie in the works and a restored print in cinemas, it's a perfect time to look back at this 80s classic Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
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I Clowns
A minor project made in a breather between films that would elevate him to the highest level of the cinematic pantheon, Fellini's I Clowns is often noted as ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2014 -
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Jimi: All Is by My Side
Jimi: All Is by My Side takes an approach that more musician biopics should, that of honing in on one specific period of Jimi Hendrix's life instead of provi... Read more »| 24 Oct 2014