Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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FilmDaniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on Faces of Death
The 1978 gorefest Faces of Death has been retooled, but this is no lazy IP-mining remake. Filmmakers Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei explain how their film is digging into our troubling relationship with screen violence Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: I Want Your Sex
Gregg Araki is back with a new film exploring the relationship between an artist and her much younger employee; unfortunately, the sex in this sex comedy has a mechanical music video sheen Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: The Education of Jane Cumming
So many elements of The Education of Jane Cumming are great – the cast, music, period detail, writing – but it rushes its conclusion, delivering much of the story's dramatic details as text title cards during the credits Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Snapshot
Director Joseph Archer and writer Cathy Wippell give the found footage horror subgenre a shot in the arm with the eerie Snapshot, which is presented as a proto documentary from the late 1880s that reveals new information about Jack the Ripper Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
MusicPhoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend
The third studio album from Phoebe Bridgers is stitched into near-perfection with love, patience and resilience Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Goodbye Cruel World
Félix De Givry – best known as the lead actor from Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden – announces himself as a hugely promising filmmaking talent with this sensitive teen drama that calls to mind the youth films of the French New Wave Read more »| 17 Aug 2026
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FilmEIFF 2026: The Peril at Pincer Point
With The Peril at Pincer Point, directors Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine have created a wonderfully atmospheric low-budget cinema marvel that sits somewhere between Lake Michigan Monster and Widow’s Bay Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
MusicMusic Now Podcast: Bikini Body on songwriting, riff-tracking, and having fun with it
On the latest episode of our Scottish music podcast, we talk riff management, favourite songs and new music with Edinburgh dance-post-punks Bikini Body Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Mission
George MacKay is perfectly cast as a young man going through an existential crisis in Paul Wright's Mission. His full-bodied performance helps us overlook some of the film's narrative flaws Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Her Private Hell
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest is as stylised, camp and violent as we've come to expect from this cult filmmaker, but unfortunately it's also deeply boring Read more »| 16 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight
Theodore Schaefer's black-and-white portmanteau shot on 16mm film is a visual, aural and intellectual treat, a wonderful ode to the energy of New York City and a superb showcase of the unique star power of its lead actor, Gus Birney Read more »| 16 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Capsized
There are shades of Little Miss Sunshine in this deft comedy centred on a family coming together during a crisis, which features terrific performances for a cast that includes Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe Read more »| 15 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Pretty Babies
Tyler-Marie Evans’ bittersweet debut follows two high school girls who take to the open road with the hope of making it to Hollywood. The director's control of the film's dreamier sequences is more sure than her handeling of its painful realities Read more »| 14 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Out There
Simon Ryninks's comedy about a UFO-obsessed community in Wales might not have the budget of a Steven Spielberg extraterrestrial epic, but it has the same heartwarming sensibility Read more »| 14 Aug 2026 -
MusicSharp Pins @ King Tut’s, Glasgow, 10 Aug
Chicago power poppers Sharp Pins have the look but lack the punchline Read more »| 14 Aug 2026