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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FilmFilms of 2017: Best Scottish Short Films
Glasgow Short Film Festival director Matt Lloyd and coordinator Sanne Jehoul join the Skinny's Film editor in choosing the best Scottish short films released in 2017 (in alphabetical order) Read more »| 01 Dec 2017 -
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Films of 2017: Best Short Films of the Year
Glasgow Short Film Festival director Matt Lloyd and coordinator Sanne Jehoul join the Skinny's Film editor in choosing their favourite short films of the year (in alphabetical order) Read more »| 01 Dec 2017 -
ComedyJingle Baws: December 2017 Horoscopes
Mystic Mark delivers a Christmas treat with his final set of horoscopes Read more »| 01 Dec 2017 -
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Witchhammer
Powerful piece of allegorical film-making from Otakar Vávra, which compares 17th century witch trials to Czechoslovak Communist show trials of the 1950s Read more »| 01 Dec 2017 -
MusicGorillaz @ SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 29 Nov
Enthralling visuals and a raft of guest contributors from Vince Staples to De La Soul bolster Gorillaz' huge show at the Hydro Read more »| 01 Dec 2017 -
MusicThe Little Kicks – Bang the Drum Slowly (Video Premiere)
Watch the new music video for The Little Kicks' Bang the Drum Slowly Read more »| 29 Nov 2017
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The Skinny's Top 50 Albums of 2017
2017 has been quite an incredible year for music, so after much deliberation our music team have selected their favourite 50 of the year Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
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Locations, Locations: Edinburgh & Avengers: Infinity War
Edinburgh features in the new trailer for Avengers: Infinity War. But to what extent? We try to find out... Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
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It's Avengers v Thanos in the first Infinity War trailer
Thor, Spider-Man, Captain America, Black Widow and the rest of the gang are back in the trailer for the epic-looking Infinity War (Part I) Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
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The Just Joans – You Might Be Smiling Now...
The new album from The Just Joans is lyrically smart, funny, and terrifyingly relatable Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
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Childhood @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 21 Nov
Childhood bring their blissful, overblown and soulful pop to Broadcast, with fellow London newcomers Sorry in tow for an exciting double bill Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
FilmWhat Justice League Tells Us About Toxic Fan Culture
It's not just Donald Trump who's obsessed with fake news. A subsection of movie fans convinced critics are out to destroy their favourite comic book franchise are beginning to look similarly paranoid. We look at this increasingly toxic online discourse Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
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Films of 2017: The Criminally Overlooked Movies of the Year
These are the films that didn't set the box office alight but should have, the movies that critics roundly ignored, and the films that won't be in conversations come awards season. In other words: these are the year's most criminally overlooked movies Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
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ENGINE – Cucumber Water (EP Premiere)
Leeds psych outfit ENGINE share a first listen of their new record, and talk us through it track-by-track Read more »| 29 Nov 2017 -
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Films of 2017: The 25 Best Films of the Year
The best film of 2017 was about women and directed by a woman. Elsewhere, we were stirred by films from points of view rarely represented on screen: those of queer people, poor people and people of colour; our second best film of 2017 concerns all three Read more »| 28 Nov 2017