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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Edinburgh FestivalsFarming
A young Nigerian boy farmed out to a white Tilbury family joins a gang of skinheads as a teenager in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s debut feature, Farming Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmBait
Mark Jenkin emerges as a distinctive new voice in British filmmaking with this innovatively shot and edited melodrama concerned with the class tensions bubbling over between the skint locals and the wealthy holidaymakers in a Cornwall fishing village Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
TheatreHow can the Edinburgh Fringe become more Accessible?
The second instalment of our Fairer Fringe series looks at how accessible Edinburgh's Festival Fringe is for audiences with disabilities Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmVarda by Agnès
The final film from French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda is touching, but there's little new to be gleaned from it Read more »| 22 Jun 2019 -
FilmGwen
A gritty performance by Maxine Peake and richly bleak photography by Adam Etherington are more than enough to recommend folk horror Gwen Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
FilmAngus Macfadyen on Robert the Bruce
You wait years for a Robert the Bruce film... and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of Outlaw King, Angus Macfadyen reprises the role he played in Braveheart and tells us why he felt compelled to write an anti-war version of the Bruce legend Read more »| 21 Jun 2019
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FilmHurt by Paradise
Female friendship is at the heart of Greta Bellamacina's debut feature, although she sometimes lets her visual style get in the way of her charismatic characters Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
Uk FestivalsParklife 2019: The Report
Parklife isn’t for everyone, but if you’re up for a high-octane and electro-fuelled rave come rain or shine then it’s the place to be Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
FilmGet Duked!
Eddie Izzard plays a murderous aristocrat tracking four working-class teens hiking in the Highlands in this wildly comic class satire from music video director Ninian Doff Read more »| 19 Jun 2019 -
Uk FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival: Five Asian films to discover
Edinburgh International Film Festival doesn’t have its own Asian strand but it always offers a good number of noteworthy titles from the East. Here’s a selection of the most intriguing films on offer in 2019 Read more »| 18 Jun 2019 -
International FestivalsRoskilde 2019: Festival Preview
Denmark's Roskilde Festival starts almost as soon as Glastonbury finishes; we take a closer look at the 2019 line-up Read more »| 18 Jun 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsWhy are there so many zombie comedies?
What's so funny about the walking dead? With Jim Jarmusch's star-studded zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die about to hit cinemas, we look back at the horror movies that make gags out of these undead ghouls Read more »| 17 Jun 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsWhy Pauline Kael still matters
Rob Garver’s eloquently-crafted documentary about The New Yorker critic – What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael – is a timely reminder of Kael's importance Read more »| 17 Jun 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsThe great Leonard Cohen moments in film
To mark the release of Nick Broomfield's Leonard Cohen doc Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, we highlight some of our favourite movie needle drops featuring the music of the much-missed Canadian singer-songwriter Read more »| 17 Jun 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Film Festival: Ten Films to Seek Out
Our film editor picks out ten under-the-radar films to catch at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 14 Jun 2019