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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MusicWin prizes at Sounds from the Other City festival!
Sounds from the Other City festival returns to Salford this May bank holiday, filling venues and streets with its usual madcap mix of music, art and performa... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
FilmFive to see at GFF, 25 Feb: Wild at Heart & more
Today at Glasgow Film Festival, join Nic Cage and Laura Dern on the run in Wild at Heart and Kate Dickie and Paul Higgins in a cave in Couple in a Hole, plus... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Five to see at GFF, 24 Feb: Surprise Film & More
Today's Glasgow Film Festival offers up the thrill of Speed Sisters, the chill of The Clan and the mystery of what will be this year's Surprise Film... Spee... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
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Five to see at GFF, 23 Feb: Green Room & more
Today (23 Feb) at Glasgow Film Festival offers up a punk v Nazi siege thriller (Green Room), a love letter to a city (I Am Belfast) and Aleksandr Sokurov's l... Read more »| 22 Feb 2016 -
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I Am Belfast
Mark Cousins' love-letter to his hometown Read more »| 22 Feb 2016 -
FilmFinders Keepers
Humane documentary examining the effects of drug addiction and an obsession with reality TV fame on two men whose lives cross paths in the strangest of fashions Read more »| 22 Feb 2016
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Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman's first foray into stop-motion animation is a typically existential and deeply moving affair Read more »| 22 Feb 2016 -
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Five to see at GFF, 22 Feb: Network & Demolition
Today's Glasgow Film Festival highlights include Jake Gyllenhaal in full quirk mode (Demolition), Patricio Guzmán bringing beauty and humanity to... Read more »| 21 Feb 2016 -
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Miguel Gomes on three-part epic Arabian Nights
Fantasy and reality blend in Miguel Gomes's epic three-part remix of Scheherazade’s Arabian Nights folktales. We gather round the campfire with the Por... Read more »| 21 Feb 2016 -
FilmFive to see at GFF, 21 Feb: Louder than Bombs
Today, Glasgow Film Festival offers up a moving family drama (Louder than Bombs), an anime buddy-movie (The Boy and the Beast) and the perfect Sunday matinee film (The Adventures of Robin Hood) Read more »| 21 Feb 2016 -
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Five to see at GFF, 20 Feb: Miles Davis and David Bowie
Two great music films screening today at Glasgow Film Festival: an oldie (DA Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust concert film) and a mint fresh one (Don Cheadle's ta... Read more »| 20 Feb 2016 -
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Office
Hong Kong action maestro Johnnie To delivers a stylish 3D musical set around the 2008 financial crash. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
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Man vs. Snake: The Long & Twisted Tale of Nibbler
Empathetic doc following several gaming misfits as they try to score one billion points on an obscure arcade game. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
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Time Out of Mind
Richard Gere plays a homeless New Yorker in this absorbing tale of urban poverty. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
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Film on Film: Five great movies about movies
Inspired by critic Kent Jones' Hitchcock/Truffaut, we pay tribute to those great ouroboroi of cinema: films about film. Below are five of the best, from a do... Read more »| 19 Feb 2016