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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FilmFree Fire
Shades of Sam Peckinpah in this star-studded action film about an arms deal gone wrong from Sightseers director Ben Wheatley Jean-Luc Godard once said that ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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O Canada: GFF celebrates New Canadian Cinema
Welcome to Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of New Canadian Cinema, the weirder but much more friendly neighbour of Hollywood Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Five daring female coming-of-age films
Inspired by All This Panic, Jenny Gage’s spellbinding documentary following seven teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn, we look back at some of cinema'... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
FilmFolk Hero & Funny Guy
Disappointingly generic buddy road movie starring Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell, Meredith Hagner and Melanie Lynskey. Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Warren Beatty: New Hollywood survivor
Warren Beatty helped kick off an American cinema renaissance in the late 60s with Bonnie and Clyde, now he's back after two decades with Rules Don't Apply, a... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
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Fresh Blood: 5 mindblowing vampire movies
Not all screen vampires wear capes and sleep in coffins. Ahead of GFF's screening of inventive teen vampire tale The Transfiguration, we take a look at five ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017
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FilmMindhorn
Julian Barratt's performance is almost Partridge-esque in its clueless pomposity in this hilarious British comedy Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Olivier Assayas on Kristen Stewart & Personal Shopper
The ever versatile Olivier Assayas returns to genre territory with strange and mysterious ghost story Personal Shopper, which centres on a knockout performan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
FilmAll This Panic
A remarkable documentary capturing the dreamy haze of a particular point in a group of young women's lives Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Heal the Living
Katell Quillévéré's third feature is her most accomplished yet Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Cinema Smackdowns: 5 of the funniest film fights
Glasgow Film Festival’s screening of Catfight, in which two former college friends (Sandra Oh and Anne Heche) fight each other after an awkward encount... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Edinburgh Science Festival unveils 2017 programme
Details of this year's Edinburgh Science Festival have been revealed, with live music, new theatre and highly scientific partying all on the agenda Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Handsome Devil
John Butler channels 80s John Hughes for this Irish coming out story, but unfortunately he also borrows that era's conservative approach to sexuality. Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Neruda
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín wraps his story of revolutionary poet Pablo Neruda within a fictional narrative. The approach is sadly unsuccessful Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Five great boxing movies
Inspired by the release of trio of Johnny Harris' powerful and unflinching boxing film Jawbone, we consider the best boxing movies cinema has to of... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017