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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FilmMurina
Arriving with the best first feature film award from Cannes and with Martin Scorsese on board as an executive producer, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s fraught family drama Murina is one of GFF22’s hottest tickets Read more »| 14 Mar 2022 -
FilmThe Novice
Isabelle Fuhrman is fantastic as a freshman rower with an obsession to be the best in this gripping, gut-punching sports drama Read more »| 11 Mar 2022 -
TheatreEwan Downie on Company of Wolves' Julius Caesar
We chat to Ewan Downie about mob mentality, laboratory theatre and directing Shakespeare in a different way Read more »| 11 Mar 2022 -
FilmMy Old School
Alan Cumming lip-syncs to the voice of notorious Bearsden Academy student Brandon Lee in Jono McLeod's fun and moving documentary My Old School Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
FilmGFF 2022: Angry Young Men
There's plenty of invention in shoe-string budget feature Angry Young Men and sequences that work brilliantly, but there's little to draw you into its central drama Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
TheatreThe Children @ Dundee Rep
The Scottish premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's Tony Award-nominated play The Children does its intricate script justice Read more »| 10 Mar 2022
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FilmHappening
Set in 1960s France, Audrey Diwan's powerful film explores the plight of a promising young university student who becomes unwillingly pregnant and tries to do something about it, despite abortion being illegal Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
FilmGreat Freedom
Franz Rogowski gives a soulful performance as a gay man who lives a recidivistic life in post-WWII Germany thanks to the country's brutal Paragraph 175 regulations Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
BooksThe Voids by Ryan O'Connor
The Voids is a portrait of the city, the margins of society, and of a young man, that captures the wealth to be found in perceived emptiness Read more »| 09 Mar 2022 -
MusicYves Tumor @ The Garage, Glasgow, 6 Mar
Yves Tumor's about-turn towards rock stardom is almost complete, and they've got the songs, flair and hair to prove it Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
FilmGFF 2022: Fire (Both Sides of the Blade)
Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon and Grégoire Colin's characters become involved in a messy love triangle in the latest film from Claire Denis Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
FilmGFF 2022: Once Upon a Time in Uganda
Welcome to Wakaliwood! Entertaining documentary Once Upon a Time in Uganda takes us inside the world of filmmaker Isaac Nabwana and the no-budget gonzo action movies he makes from a slum in Kampala Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
FilmVortex
The latest from French provocateur Gaspar Noé uses split-screen to tell the story of an elderly couple (played by Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun) in their twilight years Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
MusicSpotlight On... MALKA x AMUNDA
The Hen Hoose pairing of MALKA and AMUNDA are back together for International Women's Day with On the Up and we are obsessed Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
MusicAMPLIFI: The sounds of modern Scotland
Arusa Qureshi, one half of the curation team behind AMPLIFI, tells us what we can expect from this new series, and asks why Black and POC artists still do not have a significant presence on bills and main stages Read more »| 08 Mar 2022