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 ReleasesThe Impossible
Cinema’s great trick is that it lets us live more lives than a sack full of Hindu cats. From the safety of a darkened auditorium we can go to war, batt... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
New ReleasesJack Reacher
While watching Jack Reacher, one gets the impression there’s a great satire to be made from Lee Child’s meat-headed crime series about a m... Read more »| 26 Dec 2012 -
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Life of Pi
The meat of Ang Lee's visually sumptuous adaptation of Yann Martel's book club favourite is an Edward Lear-like story about a skinny vegetarian boy faring th... Read more »| 20 Dec 2012 -
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Safety Not Guaranteed
It's a pleasure to see the talented Aubrey Plaza being given a long overdue starring role, but what a shame Safety Not Guaranteed is such a dud. She plays a ... Read more »| 19 Dec 2012 -
New ReleasesThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The sparkiest scene in Peter Jackson’s eagerly anticipated return to Middle Earth is a battle of wits between Gollum (Lord of the Rings' tragic, ring-c... Read more »| 13 Dec 2012 -
New ReleasesLove Crime
Love Crime is the last film Alain Corneau made before his death, and it initially looks like it might act as a fitting swansong. Kristin Scott Thomas and Lud... Read more »| 10 Dec 2012
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Chasing Ice
Is it possible to take a picture of climate change? Ask James Balog. Back in the more innocent pre-crash noughties, this National Geographic photographer fou... Read more »| 10 Dec 2012 -
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
With its sparkling divas and muscled he-men, Hollywood in its heyday was a barely closeted champion of queer culture. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, ... Read more »| 10 Dec 2012 -
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Air Doll
A Japanese salaryman returns to his ramshackle apartment every night to the welcoming, if chilly, embrace of his inflatable sex doll, with whom he has an elaborate domestic routine. Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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Seven Psychopaths
The fact that the central character in Seven Psychopaths is an Irish writer named Marty should suggest the kind of film we're dealing with here. McDonagh's s... Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
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Gremlins
On a sales call to a gloomy Chinatown cliché emporium, Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) obtains a mogwai, a wittering Furby/shih-tzu hybrid as Christmas g... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
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Floating Weeds
The rootless beings of the title are a performance troupe in post war Japan, moving perpetually through the country as happy wanderers. Returning to a rural ... Read more »| 30 Nov 2012 -
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Gate of Hell
This 1953 Japanese classic is a banquet of visual delights, a tapestry of vibrant colour, which regrettably becomes frayed at the edges. Morito is a mid-rank... Read more »| 30 Nov 2012 -
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Sightseers
Ben Wheatley’s absurdist Sightseers plays out like a trainspotters' Badlands. There's great wit at play as we follow simmering sociopath Chris and... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
New ReleasesEnd of Watch
Writer/director David Ayer returns to his well-worn law enforcement stomping ground with End of Watch, a foul-mouthed, boneheaded and really quite unpleasant... Read more »| 23 Nov 2012