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 ReleasesBig 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 -
New ReleasesKill 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 -
New ReleasesNebraska
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 -
FestivalsLeviathan
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 -
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Is the Warmest Colour made history at Cannes this year when its leads, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, shared the Palme d'Or with dir... Read more »| 15 Nov 2013 -
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In Fear
A selection of great British fears – narrow country roads at night, passive-aggression from strangers, and the spilling of a man’s pint – f... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
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Of Good Report
Here is the film to put director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka on the map, partly due to its controversy (it was banned in its native South Africa and reinstated in a m... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
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Future My Love
Maja Borg's first feature film is a poetic blend of doc, road trip and love story Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
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Don Jon
In Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon, the first-time director stars as the beefcake of the title, a cocky stud who has no trouble picking up women, but who stil... Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
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Thor: The Dark World
In a flashback sequence that opens the Marvel brand’s latest superhero sequel, we discover how Thor’s grandfather, Bor, previously conquered the ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2013 -
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Philomena
Philomena’s premise couldn’t be more hokey. Based on true events, the film is an odd-couple road movie following smart-aleck journo Martin Sixsmi... Read more »| 28 Oct 2013 -
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We Are What We Are
Jim Mickle updates Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 cannibal family drama in solid style, building on the promise of his low-key vampire saga Stake Land from t... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013