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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FestivalsEIFF 2014: Honeymoon
Brits Harry Treadaway and Game of Throne's Rose Leslie are fresh-faced American newlyweds Paul and Bea in Leigh Janiak’s entertaining if problemat... Read more »| 27 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Beloved Sisters (Die geliebten Schwestern)
Billed on its posters as ‘the secret story of Schiller’s passion’, Beloved Sisters presents a speculative account of the relationship betwe... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Au revoir l’été
Japanese writer-director Kôji Fukada's excellent previous feature, screened internationally under the name Hospitalité, had a hint of Luis Bu&nt... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: My Red Shoes (Mes souliers rouges)
Splicing old home movies with new footage shot at her parents’ house in Nantes, My Red Shoes sees Iranian-born filmmaker Sara Rastegar examine her own ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: The Infinite Man
When anal-retentive Dean (McConville) brings his girlfriend Lana (Marshall) to the desert motel where they once enjoyed a perfect anniversary, his desire to ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Garnet’s Gold
In Ed Perkin’s documentary Garnet’s Gold, a peculiar man with an improbable name, Garnet Frost, sets out on the quest of his life, a quixotic jou... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014
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EIFF 2014: The Paternal House
The opening scene of Iranian drama The Paternal House plays like a home invasion thriller, as a weeping young woman flees from room to room, barricading door... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Home (Hemma)
Coffee is the beverage of choice in Maximilian Hult’s sweet but never treacly directorial debut, and with a name like Home, it’s not difficult to... Read more »| 25 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Uncertain Terms
Almost everyone who saw Nathan Silver’s first film and EIFF debut in 2012, Exit Elena, was hugely impressed by a new, smart and humane voice in US... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Hellion
Hellion is a low-key family drama that explores grief and responsibility. Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul features as Hollis, a boozy single parent who&r... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Joe
With Joe, director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche) returns to his roots, examining the grim reality of society’s underclass wi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: I Believe in Unicorns
A merging of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland might be read as a possible influence on I Believe in Unicorns, but this ver... Read more »| 24 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Castles in the Sky
It’s hard to represent the creative process of invention on screen without resorting to cliché. Gillies Mackinnon’s Castles in the Sky, ho... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
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Chef
Chef centres on Casper, a cook, once the darling of the LA food scene, who's stuck in a rut churning out uninspired nosh for his philistine restaurateur paym... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular. The first follows a man (Tsai’s go-to leading man... Read more »| 22 Jun 2014