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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TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: March 2025
This month, Scotland is visited by multiple national tours, as well as a host of enticing locally made productions Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
FilmScottish Film Events: March 2025
This March, expect many film festivals, unmissable retrospectives on two hugely influential filmmakers and a whole load of Q&A screenings for new work Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... Intibint
Following the release of her latest single, Ymn Alsa3eed., we catch up with Glasgow-based, Yemeni singer, songwriter, producer and visual artist Intibint Read more »| 27 Feb 2025 -
FilmJames McArdle on Hamlet, baddies & new film Four Mothers
James McArdle is a familiar face from stage and television, but he's yet to lead a movie. That all changes with Four Mothers, in which he plays an Irish novelist caring for his elderly mother Read more »| 27 Feb 2025 -
MusicMan Rei + Ugnė Uma @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 23 Feb
A double bill of Eastern-European experimentalists finds two artists – Man Rei and Ugnė Uma – plumbing shadowy emotional depths Read more »| 26 Feb 2025 -
MusicDARKSIDE – Nothing
On the third record, DARKSIDE are happy to remain unfixed, bumping between fun and familiar grooves with an element of chaos Read more »| 26 Feb 2025
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MusicIchiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures
On her latest album, Luminescent Creatures, Ichiko Aoba's compositions move incrementally, like the limbs of coral on the seabed, flourishing with cultivation and care Read more »| 25 Feb 2025 -
MusicMarie Davidson – City of Clowns
Marie Davidson’s City of Clowns melds dark industrial beats with biting lyrics to challenge the grip big tech has on our lives Read more »| 25 Feb 2025 -
MusicPanda Bear – Sinister Grift
On his seventh album as Panda Bear, Noah Lennox delivers ten meticulously crafted songs, exploring a new thematic territory that's bittersweet but buoyant Read more »| 25 Feb 2025 -
FilmThe Last Showgirl
Jamie Lee Curtis grooving to Total Eclipse of the Heart is one of the few highlights in this disappointing study of a Las Vegas showgirl approaching the end of her career Read more »| 24 Feb 2025 -
FilmThe Monkey
Theo James plays twin brothers in the possession of a cursed toy monkey in this gory horror comedy that's rarely scary nor funny Read more »| 21 Feb 2025 -
BooksCarrion Crow by Heather Parry
The new novel from acclaimed Glasgow-based author Heather Parry is a surreal Gothic exploration of marriage, class and sexuality Read more »| 21 Feb 2025 -
MusicNao – Jupiter
Nao reckons with anxieties but embraces peace as the sultry and sweet meet in this loved-up odyssey Read more »| 21 Feb 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... Fourth Daughter
Ahead of releasing her much-anticipated second EP Full Bloom, we catch up with Emily Atkinson, aka Fourth Daughter Read more »| 20 Feb 2025 -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2025 programme
Glasgow Short Film Festival is back with a programme of international work including films from the Gaza Film Unit and a spotlight on Indonesian filmmaker Riar Rizaldi, as well as short film programmes exploring sex, grief and the multiverse Read more »| 19 Feb 2025