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 ReleasesCheap Thrills
How much money would it take to get you to do something totally depraved, like hack off your own finger? Everyone has their price in E.L. Katz’s t... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
New ReleasesVenus in Fur
Roman Polanski returns to the role of provocateur with a deliciously subversive filming of David Ives’ play. Fiddling with gender roles, metatextuality... Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
New ReleasesJimmy's Hall
It’s not difficult to see what attracted perennial rabble-rousers Ken Loach and Paul Laverty to the tale of rabble-rousing, Church-baiting ac... Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
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Edge of Tomorrow
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s more memorably titled novel All You Need Is Kill, director Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow is basically a mash-up... Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
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Boomerang!
Boomerang!, from 1947, is an early example of 'docu-noir' – a sub-genre in which facts from a real-life incident are used as framework for exploring fi... Read more »| 26 May 2014 -
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
Bryan Singer’s return to the X-Men franchise opens on a familiar movie dystopia: grey skies are patrolled by murderous shape-shifting robots (called se... Read more »| 23 May 2014
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New ReleasesGodzilla
Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla revival is a beautifully directed, perfectly paced blockbuster that effortlessly veers between enormity and quieter, almost tr... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
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Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
Cycling is less a sport, more a means to transcendence through assured self-destruction. Perhaps the man who best embodies this paradox was Italian cyclist M... Read more »| 12 May 2014 -
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The Piano
Ada (Holly Hunter), a mute, 30-something Scotswoman, is uprooted and transported overseas with her precocious daughter (Anna Paquin) to wed an Antipodean lan... Read more »| 12 May 2014 -
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The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith adaptation The Two Faces of January is very much in the narrative mould of the author’s familiar brand of Mediterranean noir. Athens... Read more »| 12 May 2014 -
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Man of Marble
Made in 1976, Man of Marble tells the story of fictional heroic Polish bricklayer Mateusz Birkut, and the young female film student, Agnieszka, try... Read more »| 09 May 2014 -
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American Interior
After the success of the languid Separado!, Gruff Rhys returns with what he calls “an investigative concert tour” that delves into 18th century W... Read more »| 05 May 2014 -
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The Wind Rises
From set-pieces with airborne dragons and gunships to having a literal flying pig as a protagonist, soaring into the sky has always been a recurring interest... Read more »| 05 May 2014 -
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Frank
Although it has been co-written by former Oh Blimey Big Band member Jon Ronson, Frank is not a biopic of Frank Sidebottom or his creator Chris Sievey. Instea... Read more »| 05 May 2014 -
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Pompeii
The narrative arc of Pompeii was always going to have to be special to maintain an audience’s attention, given that all the characters involved face ce... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014