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 ReleasesThe Babadook
Mining terrifying themes of maternal instincts, debut writer-director Kent’s cerebral spook story marks her as a talent to watch. Essie Davis is extrao... Read more »| 17 Oct 2014 -
New ReleasesNorthern Soul
Back in the 60s and 70s, a generation of music fans fell in love with an underground dance movement known as northern soul. Flourishing in the north of Engla... Read more »| 13 Oct 2014 -
New ReleasesThe Maze Runner
The Maze Runner boasts an intriguing, Twilight Zone-style premise. In the opening sequence, a young man (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up in a moving freight lift wit... Read more »| 10 Oct 2014 -
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Annabelle
If the thought of a low-rent prequel to James Wan’s The Conjuring helmed by his director of photography holds little excitement, watching Annabell... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Festivals
Palo Alto
Ever wondered why Renaissance dreamboat James Franco was taking all those Ivy League writing courses? Turns out he was penning short story collection Palo Al... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
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’71
Yann Demange’s debut feature is a blistering, disturbing portrayal of one British soldier’s attempt to get back to his Belfast barracks after bei... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014
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Gone Girl
The brilliance of Gone Girl cannot be overstated, nor can it really be elucidated without diluting its many, many pleasures. This is a contradiction, a quand... Read more »| 01 Oct 2014 -
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Tony 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 -
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Maps 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 -
Festivals
A 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 -
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The 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