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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TheatreA Note of Explanation @ Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
Vita Sackville-West's miniature book is adapted for the first time, as part of Formation Festival Read more »| 06 Mar 2019 -
MusicFoals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1
The first part of Foals' comeback double album, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 is a banger-laden statement of intent Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
TheatreGhost The Musical @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
The stage adaptation of the hit film is a heavenly slice of entertainment Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
TheatreSherlock Holmes: The Final Reckoning @ Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
Weaving together a taut and developed Sherlock Holmes story, Twisted Thistle pay tribute to a much-loved classic Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
FilmSara Colangelo on The Kindergarten Teacher
In The Kindergarten Teacher, Maggie Gyllenhaal becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy when it comes to poetry. We talk to writer-director Sara Colangelo about the making of her unsettling, hard to classify film Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
TheatreLetter to the End of the World @ Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh
Letter to the End of the World is an open, collective, jumbled and overwhelming piece from Criticism Inc and Annexe Repertory Theatre Read more »| 05 Mar 2019
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FilmFull Andrea Arnold retrospective at GFT
The Glasgow cinema crown the British filmmaker Andrea Arnold their newest CineMaster with a full retrospective of her features throughout March Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
TheatreThe Month in Scottish Theatre: March 2019
What’s happening on the Scottish stage this month? It’s probably easier to ask what isn’t happening, because it's all kicking off in March Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
BooksThe Plotters by Un-Su Kim
The new rising star of Korean literature pairs a unique wit with unconvincing pacing and characterisation in The Plotters Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
FilmPossum
Possum is not particularly scary, but its portrait of a ruined life and horror of psychological trauma will haunt viewers well after the cut to black Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
FilmThe Kindergarten Teacher
In Sara Colangelo’s Sundance award-winner, she gives us an unnerving take on the mid-life crisis Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
TheatreJock Tamson's Bairns @ CCA Glasgow
Ambitious but unfocused LGBTQ+ theatre that is more sass than substance Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
ClubsB2B: S/A/M x Kampire
Ahead of their sets at the Carnival Arts Social Club, Glasgow-based DJ S/A/M goes B2B in an interview with Ugandan DJ, and member of the Nyege Nyege collective, Kampire Read more »| 05 Mar 2019 -
FilmGFF19: Vox Lux
Brady Corbet's sophomore feature is as confident and ambitious as his brilliant debut The Childhood of a Leader, but it's thrown off course by Natalie Portman's shallow performance as a cynical pop star Read more »| 04 Mar 2019 -
FilmGFF19: Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss delivers a tour-de-force performance in this unruly punk epic about a 90s riot grrrl coming apart at the seams, and intent on taking her entourage down with her Read more »| 04 Mar 2019