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 ReleasesCrystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
Consider Michael Cera’s recent film roles. There’s two-timing Scott (Scott Pilgrim vs the World), schizophrenic womaniser Nick (Youth in Revolt),... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
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Museum Hours
In this documentary-fiction hybrid, a guard (Sommer) at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum strikes up a friendship with a lonely Canadian tourist (O&rsq... Read more »| 08 Jan 2014 -
New Releases12 Years a Slave
Hunger and Shame proved that Steve McQueen’s artistic sensibility was well-suited to cinema, but 12 Years a Slave is the first time he has adapted his ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2014 -
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Based on James Thurber’s short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty stars its director Ben Stiller as an inexpressive, daydreaming underachiever who,... Read more »| 20 Dec 2013 -
New ReleasesAmerican Hustle
American Hustle is based on the Abscam sting operation of the late 70s and early 80s, but David O. Russell’s loose ensemble piece is more giddily ... Read more »| 19 Dec 2013 -
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All Is Lost
Although many were impressed with J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call, it’s doubtful anybody thought he was capable of a film like All Is Lost.... Read more »| 16 Dec 2013
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New ReleasesThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Though still brimming with some narrative bloat, the second Hobbit feature is overall a considerable improvement on its meandering, tonally scattered predece... Read more »| 11 Dec 2013 -
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The Patience Stone
After her astonishing work in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, Golshifteh Farahani’s performance in The Patience Stone confirms her status as on... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
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Big Bad Wolves
Israeli writer-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado followup their 2010 debut Rabies with another tar-black comic horror. While investigating a seri... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
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Kill Your Darlings
The Beats have had a resurgence of late; Hollywood presumably believes their vibrant defiance can strike a chord with this century’s more indolent... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
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Nebraska
All of Alexander Payne’s best and worst attributes are on full display in Nebraska. As Woody (Dern) takes a road trip to collect the million-dollar pri... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
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Leviathan
Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s non-narrative, anthropological collaboration – both a documentary and an abstract horror film – depicts the m... Read more »| 22 Nov 2013 -
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Parkland
Released on the 50th year since JFK’s assassination, this ensemble drama takes place over the days surrounding the murder, concerning itself with the e... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The second part of Suzanne Collins’ satire of our celebrity-obsessed, consumerist times hellbent on taking money from celebrity-obsessed, consumerist t... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
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Computer Chess
A cursory glance at the new movie from Andrew Bujalski, which centres on a programming tournament taking place at a crummy hotel in the early 80s, where men ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013