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 ReleasesJack the Giant Slayer
The latest in a long, mostly unsuccessful line of revisionary fairy tale adaptations, Jack the Giant Slayer is a half-hearted affair, filled with lacklustre ... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
New ReleasesNeighbouring Sounds
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s mesmerising and mysterious debut centres on a modern apartment complex in Recife, Brazil, and concerns several residents... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
New ReleasesThe Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Steve Carell is Burt Wonderstone, a David Copperfield-esque Vegas illusionist whose career and “magical friendship” with partner Anton (Stev... Read more »| 14 Mar 2013 -
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Red Dawn
In 1984, the year Orwell prophesied doom, writer-director John Milius took the Cold War to its barely logical conclusion for Red Dawn, imagining a Third Worl... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
New ReleasesSide Effects
So does Steven Soderbergh’s filmmaking career end with a bang or a whimper? Unfortunately it’s closer to the latter. Out of the genre tombola fro... Read more »| 07 Mar 2013 -
New ReleasesHansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Let’s not mince words: Hansel and Gretel is not a good movie. But with its shoddiness so clearly telegraphed – from its premise (fit fo... Read more »| 06 Mar 2013
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Robot & Frank
Frank Langella gives a touching performance in Robot & Frank, a more melancholy little caper than one might at first assume. In the near future, Ol&rsquo... Read more »| 06 Mar 2013 -
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This Is 40
Judd Apatow revives characters from Knocked Up (2005) in this spin-off starring Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd. Attempting a Lena Dunham-esque take on the dreaded... Read more »| 08 Feb 2013 -
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Warm Bodies
Jonathan Levine seems so seduced by the smart premise of his lazy Warm Bodies – tortured hipster zombie starts romance with live and kic... Read more »| 07 Feb 2013 -
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I Give It a Year
I Give It a Year writer/director Dan Mazer has described his raunchy feature debut as an ‘anti-rom-com'; a subversion of those well-worn boy-... Read more »| 06 Feb 2013 -
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Hitchcock
The filming of Psycho is the focus of Sacha Gervasi’s muddled but endearing biopic of/homage to The Master of Suspense. Flitting uneasily between comed... Read more »| 05 Feb 2013 -
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Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph’s primary source of pleasure is nostalgia: it’s a CGI time-machine for those who misspent their youth developing RSIs on bleeping ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2013 -
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Hyde Park on Hudson
You’ve got to feel for Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney), the lead character and narrator of Hyde Park on Hudson. Not only is her kissing cousin, President ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
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Bullhead
In synopsis Michaël R. Roskam’s feature debut is just another gangster tangle of black market drug-peddling, Coen-esque deadpan and unrequited lov... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
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Bullet to the Head
There’s something faintly tragic about Sylvester Stallone’s determination to cling to those much beloved macho action sensibilities of the 1980s,... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013