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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Festivals
EIFF 2016: Brakes & The Library Suicides
Two very different world premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival: improvised breakup comedy Brakes and The Library Suicides, a bloody revenge thri... Read more »| 19 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The Love Witch & Baba Yaga
EIFF are screening Anna Biller's modern take on the 70s sexploitation genre while in the festival's retrospective strand you'll find Corrado Farina's Baba Yaba, an example of the real thing Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The Childhood of a Leader
Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham and Robert Pattinson star in Brady Corbet's operatic period drama centred on an unruly child Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Maggie's Plan
Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore star in Rebecca Miller's offbeat romantic comedy Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer's beguiling debut, about a young female dance troupe who one-by-one experience mysterious seizures, is more audio-visual poem than traditional sports movie Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
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EIFF 2016: Seoul Station & The ReZort
Zombie fever is catching at this year’s EIFF with two distinct strains of horror emerging from Sang-yo Heon’s Korean animation Seoul Station and ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2016
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EIFF 2016: Hunt for the Wilderpeople & Slash
Two great coming-of-age films from the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival that embrace their outsiders as sympathetic and complicated human beings: T... Read more »| 16 Jun 2016 -
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Tommy's Honour
Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with an earnest golfing drama that's as exciting as you'd expect, but the fine cast save it from being mired in the rough Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
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Michael Moore on Trump, Blair and Brexit
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK's number one documentary festival, kicked off yesterday with opening film Where to Invade Next and a stirring Q&A with its dir... Read more »| 11 Jun 2016 -
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Tale of Tales
Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone delivers a violent and gloriously mad phantasmagoria of magic and wonder Read more »| 08 Jun 2016 -
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Where You’re Meant To Be
Soulful documentary pitting Aidan Moffat against Scottish folk music legend Sheila Stewart Read more »| 08 Jun 2016 -
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Cemetery of Splendour
The latest from great Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a hypnotic masterpiece Read more »| 31 May 2016 -
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When Marnie Was There
This bittersweet gem may be Studio Ghibli's final film for the foreseeable future Read more »| 23 May 2016 -
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The Nice Guys
Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling are hilarious in this wisecracking buddy-movie from Shane Black Read more »| 20 May 2016 -
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X-Men: Apocalypse
X-Men: Apocalypse is plagued with problems but the new blood shine, even if some of the old guard (Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence) look pretty bore... Read more »| 18 May 2016