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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BooksScottish Books Events: February 2024
Poetry readings, erotic cabarets and an artists' bookmarket featuring workshops galore – here's our guide to February's best literary events Read more »| 29 Jan 2024 -
FilmOut of Darkness
Paleolithic survivalist horror Out of Darkness sees a band of early humans up against the wildness of the Scottish landscape – and a mysterious threat picking them off one by one Read more »| 29 Jan 2024 -
FilmThe Iron Claw
Sean Durkin's latest is part gut-wrenching tragedy, part celebration of the sibling bond. Think Little Women but with strapping wrestlers Read more »| 29 Jan 2024 -
MusicThe Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy
The Last Dinner Party bring the best musical and literary influences to a feast for the end of the world, resulting in a renaissance album that leaves us wanting more Read more »| 29 Jan 2024 -
MusicJ Mahon @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 23 Jan
While a storm rages outside, inside there’s a sense that the lightning which J Mahon brings to the stage needs a few like-minded thunderbolts to take it to the next level Read more »| 26 Jan 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... naafi
Following the release of their debut single, Magnolia, we catch up with Glasgow DJ and producer naafi Read more »| 25 Jan 2024
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FilmThe Unheroic Journey: Awards Season's Best Biopics
Narrative fiction has long travelled outwith the rigid story structures set out by Aristotle and Joseph Campbell, but biographical cinema has been slow to catch up. Might this year's crop of biopics be turning the tide? Read more »| 25 Jan 2024 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
This year’s GFF opens with much-anticipated new thriller Love Lies Bleeding starring Kristen Stewart, and closes with the world premiere of a new documentary on Glasgow comedian Janey Godley Read more »| 24 Jan 2024 -
MusicRoaming Roots Revue @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 20 Jan
Roddy Hart and friends – complete with orchestral accompaniment – start the new year with a show of Scottish strength at this year's Celtic Connections festival Read more »| 23 Jan 2024 -
MusicOK PAL Records MAP Fundraiser @ Lost In Leith, Edinburgh, 20 Jan
Raising much-needed funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians, OK Pal Records bring a very special night of live music and DJs to Lost In Leith Read more »| 23 Jan 2024 -
MusicAlkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
Alkaline Trio return with their tenth album. Have they succeeded in reigniting? Or is this just a cold imitation of the AK3 of old? Read more »| 23 Jan 2024 -
MusicCourting – New Last Name
Although Courting embrace noisy new instrumentation on New Last Name, making it fun and energetic, it sadly fails to match the impact and charm of their debut Read more »| 23 Jan 2024 -
FilmAndrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers
All of Us Strangers sees a lonely man embark on a new relationship while inexplicably reconnecting with his long-dead parents. Its director, Andrew Haigh, discusses queer alienation, understanding our parents and the soulfulness of Paul Mescal's eyes Read more »| 23 Jan 2024 -
MusicKaty Kirby – Blue Raspberry
On Blue Raspberry, Katy Kirby is funny, scathing and full of clarity about her personal epiphanies Read more »| 23 Jan 2024 -
TheatreAnimating Scotland: Manipulate Festival 2024
We catch up with Manipulate Arts CEO Dawn Taylor about the festival's unique and ambitious programme Read more »| 23 Jan 2024