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 ReleasesParadise: Hope
The third film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is the most heartfelt and uplifting of the three, which comes as both a surprise and a blessed relief... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
New ReleasesFrom Up on Poppy Hill
It’s 1963, and high school student Umi wakes each morning to raise signal flags to the drifting tugboats of postcard-pretty Yokohama. When local boy Sh... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
New ReleasesCitadel
With ominous guitar chords, piercing shrieks and howls featuring heavily throughout, Citadel is uncomfortable viewing at the best of times. The film opens wi... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
FestivalsFrances Ha
Frances (Gerwig) is in freefall. At the grand old age of 27, her hopes of becoming a professional dancer hang by a ballet pump. She’s broke, has no per... Read more »| 12 Jul 2013 -
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Pacific Rim
Fantasy man Guillermo del Toro’s latest, Pacific Rim, is a large-scale love letter to Japanese sci-fi, but also an accessible blockbuster imbued w... Read more »| 11 Jul 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: The Complex (Kuroyuri danchi)
Once a feted pioneer of the horror genre (thanks primarily to Ringu’s ground-breaking success), a series of missteps has since seen Hideo Nakata’... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013
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FestivalsEIFF 2013: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
Bizarre doesn’t begin to cover Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari’s collection of wild and weird vignettes, filmed on location with the Mari peop... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Consequence (Gegenwart)
Despite its English title, a sense of consequence – indeed, causality of any kind – is absent from German director Thomas Heise’s subtle do... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Natan
When a person is murdered and the body burned, all that is left is a name and a sum total of everything said about them; distort the shape of their life's ou... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Arriving in cinemas just after the NSA surveillance scandal and the one-year anniversary of Julian Assange's stay in the Ecuadorian embassy, the release of W... Read more »| 08 Jul 2013 -
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Monsters University
Monsters University both thrives and struggles under the strictures of a prequel. The big advantage of returning to the world of Monsters, Inc. is that it wa... Read more »| 05 Jul 2013 -
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Blancanieves
Last year, Hollywood coughed up two takes on Snow White: one camp, one dark, neither much cop. Director Pablo Berger’s free interpretation of the Grimm... Read more »| 05 Jul 2013 -
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The Deep
Trawler fishing has enjoyed something of a cultural boom of late, with shows depicting the hi-octane escapades of burly men with magnificent facial hair popp... Read more »| 05 Jul 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Three Sisters (San Zimei)
Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing validates his 2012 Edinburgh film festival masterclass with an outright masterpiece in 2013. Three Sisters orbit... Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Outpost 3 - Rise of the Spetsnaz
The new Outpost film, by Scottish director Kieran Parker, is set during World War II, eschewing the flashbacks of its predecessors, except in a short framing... Read more »| 03 Jul 2013