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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MusicJenny Hval – Classic Objects
Norwegian experimenter Jenny Hval continues her turn towards clarity on Classic Objects with stunning results Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
FilmSurf's Up: Martyn Robertson on Ride the Wave
Glasgow-based documentarian Martyn Robertson brings his first feature film, Ride the Wave, to Glasgow Film Festival this month. We talked to him about life among the surfers and what it means to bring Scottish stories to a wider audience Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
MusicAlex Kapranos on 20 Years of Franz Ferdinand
We delve into Franz Ferdinand's Hits to the Head tracklist and ask Alex Kapranos 20 questions relating to each of its 20 tracks, some more tenuous than others... Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
ComedyGlasgow Comedy Festival 2022: The Highlights
Glasgow Comedy Festival rides again to deliver an excellent line-up of local laughs – here are some of our programme highlights Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
MusicPenelope Trappes brings Mother's Blood to Sonica
Ahead of her audiovisual performance of Mother's Blood at Glasgow's Sonica festival this month, we catch up with Penelope Trappes Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
MusicAlex Cameron – Oxy Music
Alex Cameron confronts the toxicity and vacuousness of a life lived online on his new album Oxy Music Read more »| 07 Mar 2022
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FilmThe Hermit of Treig
Lizzie Mackenzie's compassionate documentary The Hermit of Treig follows an ageing hermit whose declining health may force him to leave the remote wilderness he called home for four decades Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
FilmBenediction
Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi play Siegfried Sassoon at different ages in Terrence Davies’ elegant, haunting biopic of the war poet Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmBenedetta
Basic Instinct and Elle director Paul Verhoeven dips his toe into the lesbian nun sub-genre with Benedetta, a darkly comic and provocative drama exploring the overlap between religious devotion and eroticism Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
ComedyICYMI: David Callaghan on The Larry Sanders Show
Glasgow-based multimedia comic David Callaghan takes a peek at the meta cult hit The Larry Sanders Show Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmBergman Island
In Mia Hansen-Løve's latest, a filmmaking couple takes a trip to island of Fårö in Sweden, where Ingmar Bergman shot many of his films and where he resided in later life Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmA Banquet
Tensions between a widowed mother and her eldest daughter arise when the latter gives up eating due to potentially unnatural forces in this feature film debut from Ruth Paxton Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmThe Batman
Batman has never been more tortured than in Matt Reeves's gritty and grounded version of the Caped Crusader, but an excellent cast and Se7en-esque detective yarn are buried beneath broody superhero excess Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
FilmRed Rocket
Sean Baker returns with another tale from the fringes. In Red Rocket, his focus is a washed-up porn actor who's looking to get back on his feet Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
BooksGalatea by Madeline Miller
Galatea is a welcome – albeit fleeting – return to the worlds Madeline Miller brings to life Read more »| 03 Mar 2022