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: Finding Vivian Maier
In 2007 John Maloof, while researching for a book on Chicago, happened upon a collection of 30,000 prints and negatives by one Vivian Maier. Googling her nam... Read more »| 21 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Cold in July
The exploitation revival of the last ten or so years has produced more duds than doozies, but Jim Mickle here delivers a real highlight of the sub-genre with... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF 2014: Let Us Prey
This visually stylish low budget horror looks like it’ll be a real treat from the doom-leaden and aggressive opening, as a flock of crows and chilling ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Something, Anything
Something, Anything is a concise, fascinating exploration of American life, making pointed use of Southern cultural values for a more universal story of mala... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
FestivalsEIFF2014: Greyhawk
A blind army veteran loses his guide dog and only friend, Quincy, on a tough estate in this slight but extremely well put together debut feature from Matt an... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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EIFF 2014: Hyena
A compelling central performance from Peter Ferdinando is not enough to save Gerard Johnson’s derivative and deeply unpleasant thriller, Hyena. Ferdina... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014
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New ReleasesCamille Claudel 1915
The contemporary king of grim French cinema, director Bruno Dumont’s latest, the stark Camille Claudel 1915, is based on personal letters and medical r... Read more »| 16 Jun 2014 -
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Devil's Knot
So lurid and bizarre were the details of the West Memphis Three trial that a dramatisation of events to accompany the several documentaries on the subject wa... Read more »| 13 Jun 2014 -
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Oculus
A malevolent killer mirror runs amok in suburbanites’ psyches in writer-director Mike Flanagan’s very silly but really quite effective horror. Ka... Read more »| 12 Jun 2014 -
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Mistaken for Strangers
”I feel like I'm on the outside looking in,” opines Tom Berninger, halfway through this brilliantly idiosyncratic documentary in which he is both... Read more »| 10 Jun 2014 -
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Of Horses and Men
The horse is a decidedly cinematic beast; aesthetically and symbolically rich, its uneasy alliance with man is instantly and almost universally recognisable ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2014 -
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Grace of Monaco
Early on in this Grace Kelly biopic, Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) visits Princess Grace (played by Nicole Kidman) to convince her to return to a... Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
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Fruitvale Station
The difficulty with dramatising true-life events – particularly incendiary ones from the recent past – is knowing just how much fiction to infuse... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
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Cheap Thrills
How much money would it take to get you to do something totally depraved, like hack off your own finger? Everyone has their price in E.L. Katz’s t... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
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Venus in Fur
Roman Polanski returns to the role of provocateur with a deliciously subversive filming of David Ives’ play. Fiddling with gender roles, metatextuality... Read more »| 30 May 2014