UK Festivals
Welcome to The Skinny UK festival guide. We bring you previews, reviews, and line-up information for arts, film, music and comedy festivals around the UK.
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FilmThe Skinny on... Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran's hilarious coming-of-age memoir How to Build a Girl is soon to hit the big screen, with Booksmart's Beanie Feldstein playing the Moran surrogate. Read on to discover Moran's fave Beatle, best interview subject and a secret about bums Read more »| 05 Mar 2020 -
MusicPublic Enemy and Kate Tempest to play Doune the Rabbit Hole
Public Enemy (Radio), Kate Tempest, John Cale, Dan Deacon and Nadia Rose join the already announced Belle & Sebastian at the 2020 edition of the Stirlingshire festival Read more »| 04 Mar 2020 -
FilmThe Female Gaze: Mark Cousins on Women Make Film
With his epic 14-hour documentary Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, Mark Cousins offers a rapturous celebration of women filmmakers Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
FilmThe Perfect Candidate
Saudi director Haifaa al-Mansour is back on form with The Perfect Candidate, a pointed critique of her country's endemic social misogyny and the way it works to police women’s behaviour Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
FilmRunning to the Sky
Empathetic and mature coming-of-age film from Heavenly Nomadic director Mirlan Abdykalykov Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
FilmDriveways
Understated but emotional drama from Spa Night director Andrew Ahn, centred on an elegant cross-generational friendship that forms between a Korean War veteran and a Korean-American boy Read more »| 03 Mar 2020
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FilmThe Truth
The great Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda heads to Paris for his Western cinema debut, which stars Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke and Catherine Deneuve Read more »| 03 Mar 2020 -
FilmFlint
Scottish filmmaker Anthony Baxter heads to Flint, Michigan for this melancholy documentary exploring the city's ongoing water emergency Read more »| 02 Mar 2020 -
FilmEternal Beauty
Craig Roberts returns to the director's chair with the powerful story of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia. Sally Hawkins gives a superb performance in the lead role Read more »| 02 Mar 2020 -
ArtThe Museum is a Prison: Sulaïman Majali interview
As Sulaïman Majali launches several projects and shows across Scotland, they guide us through some of the thinking driving their artistic practice and some of the works they are currently making Read more »| 02 Mar 2020 -
FilmJustin Kurzel on True History of the Kelly Gang
George MacKay plays Aussie folk hero/villain Ned Kelly in the latest attempt to tell the Kelly Gang's story on the big screen. Director Justin Kurzel tells us why he was somewhat daunted to take on the project, and why he wanted MacKay for the role Read more »| 28 Feb 2020 -
FilmRun
Scott Graham’s third feature follows a petrol-head who was born to run, but instead never left his small fishing village in Scotland Read more »| 28 Feb 2020 -
FilmSon-Mother
A single mother of two is offered a heartbreaking choice in this graceful, understated work from Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi Read more »| 28 Feb 2020 -
FilmStanding Up, Falling Down
Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz retread well-worn odd-couple territory in this slight but charming comedy Read more »| 27 Feb 2020 -
FilmTrue History of the Kelly Gang
Australian director Justin Kurzel does the Ned Kelly story justice in this uneven but daring film starring George Mackay as the legendary outlaw Read more »| 27 Feb 2020