Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Uk FestivalsField Day add new acts to 2018 line-up
The festival adds IAMDDB and Moses Sumney for its first outing in south London Read more »| 13 Mar 2018 -
ComedyThe Finnieston Fringe: Veneer Gallery at Glasgow Comedy Festival
Now resident in Glasgow, ARGCom Festival director Pax Lowey chats about turning the Veneer Gallery into a hub for Fringe acts Read more »| 09 Mar 2018 -
Theatre
Take Me Somewhere announces 2018 programme
Back for a second year, Take Me Somewhere brings another lively lineup of contemporary theatre and performance to venues across Glasgow Read more »| 09 Mar 2018 -
Film
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Documentary Bombshell shows that screen beauty Hedy Lamarr was so much more than just a pretty face Read more »| 07 Mar 2018 -
Film
Sweet Country
Warwick Thornton's Australian western deserves to be ranked alongside the other great revisionist westerns of the last 30 years Read more »| 07 Mar 2018 -
Comedy
The Delightful Sausage: 'It's not for everybody'
The game is afoot as The Delightful Sausage arrive in Glasgow with new material on the back of their debut hit Cold Hard Cache Read more »| 07 Mar 2018
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Comedy
Mae Martin: 'We're all just horny monkeys'
Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated Mae Martin chats about addiction, sexuality and honesty Read more »| 07 Mar 2018 -
Film
You Were Never Really Here
Morvern Callar director Lynne Ramsay knocks it out of the park again with this fierce hitman thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, which has echoes of Taxi Driver Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Hidden Door Festival: 2018 programme revealed
The festival returns to the Leith Theatre for a ten-day programme of music, dance, film, spoken word and more Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
FilmWestern
Eastern Europe meets west in this simmering, slow-burn drama from German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
Film
Arcadia
Scottish filmmaker Paul Wright raids the BFI archives to create a dreamy study of rural life that's both nostalgic and nightmarish Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
Film
Submergence
James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander star in Wim Wenders' beautiful but shallow adaptation of JM Ledgard's novel Read more »| 28 Feb 2018 -
ArtAlberta Whittle wins 2018 Margaret Tait Award
Barbadian artist Alberta Whittle has been announced as the Margaret Tait Award winner in the centenary year of the Orcadian filmmaker’s birth Read more »| 27 Feb 2018 -
Film
The Breadwinner
From the director of The Secret of Kells, The Breadwinner is a powerful film in which the cuteness and colour of the animation is balanced by realities of life in war-torn Afghanistan Read more »| 27 Feb 2018 -
Film
Disappearance
Iranian siblings come up against the insanity of their nation's backwards healthcare rules in this bold drama that begins well but plays its hand too early Read more »| 26 Feb 2018