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 FestivalsHector
Jake Gavin’s debut feature is a standard ‘elderly man sets out in search of forgiveness and redemption’ narrative, but with added British i... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
Videos
Bill Pohlad on his Brian Wilson biopic 'Love & Mercy'
Director Bill Pohlad discusses new film Love & Mercy, which portrays the life and music of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Pohlad discusses how he appro... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Stewart Lee to curate All Tomorrow’s Parties 2.0
Comedian Stewart Lee is to curate the second of ATP’s revived holiday camp weekend festivals in Prestatyn, North Wales next April. Lee's weekende... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2015: Inside Out
With Inside Out, their 15th animated feature, animation house Pixar take a detour to avoid some of the visual and storytelling beats that have made even thei... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Black Coal, Thin Ice
In Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer-director Diao Yi'nan takes the tropes of a classic noir detective tale – a down-and-out alcoholic cop with a haunted pa... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Uk FestivalsPostcard from Auld Reekie – Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Grant McPhee's ten years in the making Big Gold Dream charts the highs and lows of Edinburgh's post-punk scene. Two of its vanguards, Vic Godard and Malcolm Ross, recall those heady days ahead of the film's world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jun 2015
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Uk Festivals
Gottwood @ Carreglwyd Wood, 12-14 Jun
Gottwood proves once again why it’s easily one of the best UK weekenders going Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Brand New-U
In the age of Charlie Brooker’s excoriating, insightful Black Mirror series and Dennis Kelly’s sinisterly gleaming Utopia, writer-director Simon ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Tech
Indie Games at E3 Expo 2015 - Small Games, Big Stage
With its theatrical press conferences, surprise announcements and celebrity cameos, E3 Expo has long held a place in the heart of video game fans. We offer a look at the independent strand of this year's E3 games Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2015: Beyond the Lights
Rising superstar Noni (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is feeling the pressures of fame and finds herself on the literal edge, almost perishing in a suicide j... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Black Mountain Poets
Having charmed audiences with last year's double hitter of Benny & Jolene and A Wonderful Christmas Time, Jamie Adams is quietly making a name for himsel... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Swung
Colin Kennedy’s adaptation of Ewan Morrison’s novel about a couple’s experience of the Glasgow swingers' scene opens with a limp joke about... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Welcome to Me
Based on premise alone, Welcome to Me could have gone horribly wrong all too easily, but director Shira Piven’s barbed satire successfully walks a fine... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Love & Mercy
Two pivotal periods in Brian Wilson’s life collide in Bill Pohlad's dizzying study of the former Beach Boy. One concerns the creation of 1966‘s P... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Last Days in the Desert
White people fannying about reenacting scripture should, on paper, be testing the boundaries of taste. But Last Days in the Desert is so pared down, so sure ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015