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 ReleasesWarm 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 -
New ReleasesI 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 -
New ReleasesHitchcock
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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New ReleasesBullet 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 -
Festivals
The King of Pigs
The King of Pig's brutal animation smoulders but its characters remain flat Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
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Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's astounding new film opens with the horrific sounds of 9/11 played over a black screen and it ends with the death of Osama bin Laden; its su... Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
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Lincoln
Much has been made in the US press of Daniel Day-Lewis’s decision to adopt a high, reedy voice (instead of a stentorian baritone) to portray sixteenth ... Read more »| 18 Jan 2013 -
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What Richard Did
In the world of cinema, Richard (Jack Reynor), the 18-year-old title character in Lenny Abrahamson’s hugely impressive third feature, is an anomaly. He... Read more »| 17 Jan 2013 -
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The Wee Man
This is the hagiography of St Paul – Ferris that is. The Glasgow gangland hall-of-famer whose life is laid out here on celluloid, yet left untarnished ... Read more »| 15 Jan 2013 -
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V/H/S
Conceived and co-produced by Bloody-disgusting.com’s Brad Miska, V/H/S unites horror movie formats past (the anthology) and ever-present (found-footag... Read more »| 14 Jan 2013 -
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The Sessions
With the majority of American films being terrified of approaching sex in anything like an honest fashion, the frankness and good humour of The Sessions is a... Read more »| 14 Jan 2013 -
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables, Tom Hooper’s follow-up to Oscar-bothering Heritage bromance The King’s Speech, offers all the pageantry of the 8... Read more »| 07 Jan 2013