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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FestivalsMonsters 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 -
FestivalsThe 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 -
FestivalsEIFF 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 -
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A Field In England
Ben Wheatley’s new film is a psychedelic tale of the English Civil War, shot in stark monochrome using a combination of digital lenses, giving a rich, ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2013
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New ReleasesParadise: Faith
Situated in the middle of Ulrich Seidl’s trilogy, it's hard to avoid the feeling that Paradise: Faith is the weakest film of the three, but i... Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
FestivalsEIFF 2013: When Night Falls (Wo Hai You Hua Yao Shuo)
A stanch exposé of real-life injustice, When Night Falls dramatises the plight of Wang Jimnei, whose son Yang Jia was convicted of killing seven polic... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
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Stories We Tell
Canadian actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley’s new feature, The Stories We Tell, is as slippery as an eel. It claims to be a documentary, but then so did ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Il Futuro (The Future)
Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson’s languid coming-of-age tale follows Roman teens Bianca (Martelli) and Tomas (Ciardo), who are thrust toward th... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Emperor Visits the Hell (Tang huang you di fu)
Sixteenth century Chinese novel Journey to the West has been adapted dozens of times in dozens of ways, from cult Japanese television show Monkey to Damon Al... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: Svengali
One of Svengali’s running jokes is that protagonist Dixie – a postman from rural Wales who ups-sticks for London hoping to nurture a distinctly u... Read more »| 26 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: This Is Martin Bonner
Martin Bonner (Eenhoorn) is at a lull in his life. An Aussie expat, he finds himself leaving his grown-up east-coast family and moving to Reno, Nevada for th... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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EIFF 2013: uwantme2killhim?
The internet is a dangerously empowering tool in this true story, which has been knit into a taut thriller by British director Andrew Douglas. Set in 2003, u... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
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The Act of Killing
Few films have explored the moral implications of murder as creatively and powerfully as The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary introduce... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013