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 Releases
The Artist and the Model
Best known for fluffy Oscar-winner Belle Epoque (and more recently, Chico and Rita’s vibrant jazz animation), The Artist and the Model presents a more ... Read more »| 13 Sep 2013 -
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In a World...
Actress Lake Bell makes her feature writing and directing debut with this funny ensemble piece set within and around the world of voice-over artists. Carol S... Read more »| 12 Sep 2013 -
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The Great Hip Hop Hoax
A follow-up to Sound It Out, her 2011 documentary about a Teesside record shop, Jeanie Finlay forays into darker aspects of the music industry with... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints might ultimately be a triumph of craft over content, but when the craft is this impressive it seems churlish to complain. Davi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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About Time
Richard Curtis rounds off his trust fund trilogy with weddings (not four, thankfully) and love (not actually, mercifully) in this return to the vanilla, uppe... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
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Upstream Colour
Dense, maddening, oblique but oh so beautiful, Shane Carruth’s long-awaited follow-up to the similarly bizarre Primer will certainly leave his audience... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013
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Pain & Gain
Michael Bay has never given the impression of being a filmmaker particularly interested in irony. His bombastic oeuvre features all the self-awareness of you... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
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Lovelace
A very strong performance from Amanda Seyfried anchors this biopic of the most notorious period of Linda Boreman’s life, that of her troubled marriage ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
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Elysium
South Africa-set District 9 had a clear apartheid allegory built into its hyper-violent sci-fi stylings, and writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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2 Guns
Fresh from chilling audiences to the core with austere true-life drama The Deep, director Baltasar Kormákur turns up the heat and lays on the froth in... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
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What Maisie Knew
An adaption of Henry James’s 19th-century novel of the same name, What Maisie Knew has undergone modernising alterations but retains the same pitiable ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
An adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ feminist novel Foxfire might seem like an unlikely choice for Laurent Cantet, but the material actually feels like ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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The Lone Ranger
Bloated, hubristic and an awkward mish-mash of wildly conflicting tones, it’s easy to see why US critics lined-up to give Gore Verbinski’s The Lo... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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Only God Forgives
While it’s the success of Drive that will stoke most interest in this director/star reunion (drenched like its forebear in slick neon, and with Ryan Go... Read more »| 02 Aug 2013 -
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Serial Mom
Beverly Sutphin is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and “f*cking nuts!” Queer cinema hero John Waters’ deliriously dark slice of seria... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013