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 ReleasesArt 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 -
New ReleasesFinding 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 -
New ReleasesAttila 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 -
New ReleasesObvious 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
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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 -
New ReleasesGod 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 -
New ReleasesThe 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 -
FestivalsWe 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 -
FestivalsWelcome 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 -
New ReleasesGuardians 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 -
New ReleasesBranded to Kill
The film to earn outlaw master Seijun Suzuki his P45, Branded to Kill is the flawed masterpiece of a misunderstood genius. Asked to follow up his stylised cl... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
New ReleasesDawn of the Planet of the Apes
Set ten years after 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a global pandemic has all but wiped out humanity, and a San Francisco colony, led by Gary Ol... Read more »| 16 Jul 2014 -
New ReleasesI Am Divine
When Glenn Milstead died from a heart condition in 1988, he was just hours away from shooting his first episode of Married... with Children, the hit Fox sitc... Read more »| 14 Jul 2014