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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EIFF 2013: The Berlin File
With the hyped-up, swaggering gait of a gunslinger on speed, Korean action supremo Ryoo Seung-wan delivers East meets West double agent intrigue in The Berli... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF: People's Park
Private lives of the Peoples Republic of China are played out in the public space of a Chengdu park and recorded as historical document in Libbie D Cohn and ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
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This Is the End
This Is the End is like a Who’s Who of contemporary American comedy, with almost everyone who has graced an Apatow production in the past decade making... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
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World War Z
World War Z is based on Max Brooks’ bestselling novel of the same name, a globe-trotting, multi-perspective document of a zombie apocalypse, rife with ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: A Long Way from Home
Among things a young woman never wants to hear from a septuagenarian male acquaintance, “You can come over and use our pool any time” ranks highl... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Breathe In
Music teacher Keith (Pierce) is fighting suburban suffocation. He sneaks guilty cigarettes and regretful pauses as he considers what might have been if he ch... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013
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EIFF 2013: I Am Breathing
With composure and compassion, I Am Breathing documents the final months of husband and father Neil Platt, diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease at the age of ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
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Spike Island
You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s 1990: this month alone the Stone Roses headline the Isle of Wight festival, star in a Shane Meadows documenta... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
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Before Midnight
This most unlikely of threequels returns to the story of Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy), 18 years after they first met on a train and fell in love. ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
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Like Someone in Love
While Woody Allen’s recent European ventures have produced distinctly mixed results, Abbas Kiarostami’s travels are proving to be much more rewar... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
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Man of Steel
Following Bryan Singer’s dreary Superman Returns in 2006, and new helmer Zack Snyder’s previous picture, the diabolical Sucker Punch, b... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
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The Big Wedding
Based on the 2006 French film Mon Frère Se Marie, Justin Zackham’s The Big Wedding is a huge misfire that squanders its collection of stars on c... Read more »| 31 May 2013 -
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Epic
Epic feels like a deliberate throwback to children’s adventure films of the 80s and 90s. And not necessarily the good ones – it’s plagued b... Read more »| 21 May 2013 -
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Byzantium
Neil Jordan loves a myth. His best movies (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Company of Wolves) are dreamy fairy tales with one toe in reality. The sensual and... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
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Fast & Furious 6
Fast & Furious 5 (aka Fast Five) abandoned virtually any semblance of its series’ street racing routes, retooling the blockbuster franchise into an... Read more »| 16 May 2013