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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FilmBodkin Ras
Documentary and fiction collide in this tale of a mysterious stranger's arrival in a Scottish town Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
FilmHeadshot
Brutal action flick from Indonesia featuring Raid star Iko Uwais Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
FilmAngry Inuk
Documentary looking at seal hunting from the point of view of an Inuit community who see it as a way of life Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
FilmGraduation
Great Romanian new wave director Cristian Mungiu returns with another beautifully structured film about a family mired in a suspenseful web of compromises Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Music
BBC 6 Music Festival coming to Glasgow in 2017
The multi-venue music festival hits Glasgow this March, following previous editions in Manchester, Newcastle and Bristol Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Music
The Cribs added to Sound City 2017
The Amazons and Vant have also been added to the bill for the festival's tenth anniversary edition Read more »| 20 Feb 2017
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Film
Way of the Gun: Cinema's most underrated shootouts
Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, we pay tribute to some of cinemas great, but under-appreciated, gun fights. Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
Illegitimate
A black comedy-infused drama from Romania taking on two tough subjects: abortion and incest Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
In Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
In the Radiant City
Rachel Lambert's debut about a dysfunctional family in the Deep South is flawed but promising Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
Paradise
Veteran Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsy stretches plausibility with an experimental take on the Holocaust drama Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
Film
Salt and Fire
Werner Herzog reunites with Michael Shannon for a fitfully amusing but largely stilted eco-thriller Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
Film
Louise by the Shore
Veteran French animator Jean-François Laguionie's latest centres on a septuagenarian who finds herself abandoned in an off-season holiday resort Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
Film
Soul on a String
A beguiling combination of Western and Buddhist parable, Zhang Yang’s latest is a beautiful and thought-provoking work which suffers from being overlong and narratively unfocused Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
FilmPaul Verhoeven on sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert
Paul Verhoeven has been shocking and thrilling audiences for 46 years. He's back after a ten year absence with Elle, which might be his most daring work yet. We sit down with the Dutch auteur to talk sex, satire and Isabelle Huppert Read more »| 17 Feb 2017