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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FilmDark Waters
Todd Haynes returns with a gripping, true-life procedural centred on the Cincinnati lawyer who tirelessly battled multinational chemical firm DuPont Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
MusicCaribou – Suddenly
On Caribou's seventh album, Dan Snaith finds his voice and brings his experimental side to the fore without sacrificing his perfectly lush melodies Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
MusicBABYMETAL @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 19 Feb
Flawlessly choreographed and delivered with more rock’n’roll spirit than most of the genre’s so-called ‘saviours’, BABYMETAL are the best at it by far Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
Tv RadioI Am Not Okay With This
Stranger Things meets The End of the F***ing World (and probably anything else you’ve ever seen) in this hugely derivative yet entertaining teen drama Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicAndrew Weatherall obituary: The DJ world loses its Guv’nor
Arguably the most complete artist to emerge from the acid house era, DJ, producer and remixer Andrew Weatherall died earlier this week, aged 56. We look back on his legacy Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicArmy of One: MALKA on I'm Not Your Soldier
Faced with personal and geographical upheaval, MALKA’s Tamara Schlesinger looked inward to summon her most striking and sanguine solo statement yet Read more »| 21 Feb 2020
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MusicKindness @ CCA, Glasgow, 18 Feb
As Kindness, Adam Bainbridge delivers a captivating masterclass in performing like no one’s watching, whilst simultaneously fixating the audience on your every move Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicHMLTD @ Opium, Edinburgh, 15 Feb
The London glam punks spring into action in the upstairs of Edinburgh's Opium nightclub, but their dedicated fans are the real stars of the night Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
FilmMasculinity in Crisis: Peter Mackie Burns on Rialto
Daphne director Peter Mackie Burns returns with fine-grained drama Rialto, which follows a middle-aged Dublin dock worker going through a crisis. The Glaswegian director tells us how the likes of Chekhov, Mike Leigh and David Bowie influence his work Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
FilmPortrait of a Lady on Fire
French director Céline Sciamma's imagined historical romance is a love story for the ages Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicGrimes – Miss Anthropocene
Grimes' fifth album Miss Anthropocene is uneven, gloomy and baffling, and yet contains enough of her magic to remain an enthralling listen Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicLee Ranaldo & Raül Refree – Names of North End Women
Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree’s collaboration has strong moments but too often drifts into aimlessness Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
MusicBanoffee – Look At Us Now Dad
The debut album from Melbourne's Banoffee sees her reclaim a traumatic past through cathartic pop sounds Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
FilmHow we watch movies in the age of streaming
Not a year goes by without some blowhard predicting the death of cinema, but in 2020, the dominance of streaming platforms is becoming hard to ignore. Join us at GFF to discuss how we watch films in the age of streaming Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
MusicAnimal Society – Hieroglyph (Live Session Premiere)
Watch the incredible live session video for Hieroglyph, the latest single from Scottish jazz-rock outfit Animal Society Read more »| 20 Feb 2020