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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FilmThe Hole in the Ground
A young boy walks into a mysterious hole in the ground, and when he returns, his mother feels there's something not quite right about the lad in this effective Irish horror Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
FilmI Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Radu Jude's latest is a darkly comic, politically timely meta-drama following an idealistic theatre director preparing to stage a grand outdoor historical pageant based on 1941's Odessa massacre Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
ArtBreaking Down Borders: On Talbot Rice Gallery's Borderlines
Talbot Rice have plotted a group show to coincide with Britain's scheduled date to leave Europe. Speaking with the artists and curators, they each draw out the potential that art might have within a present of bi-partisan politics and divided communities Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
FilmChristian Petzold on WWII drama Transit
Christian Petzold scrambles time and identity in his twist-filled adaptation of Anna Seghers’ WWII novel Transit. The German filmmaker tells us what period films often get wrong about the past and why he's not going to cast Steven Seagal anytime soon Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
MusicHer's @ Band on the Wall, Manchester, 15 Feb
Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading serve up a setlist split across their two albums, delivered with heart and low-key affability Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
TheatreLittle Gift @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Little Gift is a show for all ages that nurtures the heart Read more »| 20 Feb 2019
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MusicStart to End: Jeff Buckley's Grace @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 15 Feb
Start to End hit the capital in the feels with their take on Jeff Buckley's Grace Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
FilmBorder
Ali Abbasi’s second feature – a heady hybrid of romance, Nordic noir and supernatural fantasy – is teeming with ideas, but ends up in conflict with itself Read more »| 20 Feb 2019 -
MusicDesperate Journalist – In Search of the Miraculous
The London four-piece return with a transcendent new album that's the next stage in their evolution Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
MusicThe Lemonheads @ O2 Ritz, Manchester, 12 Feb
Evan Dando and co mine gold from their back catalogue tonight Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
MusicHeavy Rapids – Going Down (Video Premiere)
Watch the music video for Going Down by Glasgow four-piece Heavy Rapids Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
FilmStyx
Cinematic migrant crisis drama set on the high seas Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
FilmThunder Road
Jim Cummings writes, directs and stars in this wild and heartfelt story of a cop who goes into a tailspin following the death of his mother Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
FilmAlice Rohrwacher on Happy as Lazzaro: “Poetry is politics!”
Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is one of the most imaginative films of the year. She tells us how she embraced fairytale rhythms and magic realism to tell a politically potent tale about the evils of capitalism Read more »| 19 Feb 2019 -
FilmRichard Billingham on Ray & Liz
Celebrated British photographer Richard Billingham moves to moving image with first feature Ray & Liz, and its portrait of his own unruly family is as meticulously framed and bursting with detail as his stills. We discuss memory, influences and class Read more »| 19 Feb 2019