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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MusicBig Joanie on their new album Back Home
Big Joanie talk about the expansive sound of their second album Back Home, the many meanings of home and the ongoing challenges faced by the music industry Read more »| 31 Oct 2022 -
FilmScotland on Screen: Krysty Wilson-Cairns of The Good Nurse
With films like 1917, Last Night in Soho and now The Good Nurse under her belt, Krysty Wilson-Cairns is now an established screenwriting force in Hollywood, but she explains that it all started at the old Global Video in Glasgow's Southside Read more »| 28 Oct 2022 -
TheatreThe Rotting Hart: A new queer body horror
Daniel Orejon's new solo play, The Rotting Hart, blends body horror and queer desire – we chat to its creator, and director Flavia D'Avila, about the story behind the show Read more »| 28 Oct 2022 -
FilmBros
An inclusive cast doesn't change the fact that Bros is just another Hollywood product designed to sell as many tickets as possible – and Billy Eichner's attempts to subvert expectations make that all the more grating Read more »| 28 Oct 2022 -
MusicAngel Olsen @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 22 Oct
Angel Olsen’s live show finds a balance of grandeur and poise, without taking herself too seriously Read more »| 27 Oct 2022 -
BooksDislocations by Sylvia Molloy
Charco Press' latest translated piece, Dislocations by the late Argentinian novelist Sylvia Molloy examines the power of memory when it is being lost Read more »| 27 Oct 2022
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FilmRuben Östlund on class satire Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Östlund, the director of Force Majeure and The Square, takes a sledgehammer to the global elite with his latest satire Triangle of Sadness Read more »| 26 Oct 2022 -
ArtHannah Lim @ Edinburgh Printmakers
Sofia Cotrona unravels Hannah Lim's incisive and multi-faceted exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers Read more »| 26 Oct 2022 -
MusicJapanese Breakfast @ Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, 22 Oct
Japanese Breakfast's music is polished, atmospheric, and emotional. When her stage presence reflects that energy, it's magic Read more »| 25 Oct 2022 -
FilmLFF 2022: Living
This remake of Akira Kurosawa's meaning-of-life classic Ikiru has wonderful elements – Bill Nighy's performance, Jamie Ramsay's cinematography – but it's let down by its lacklustre final act Read more »| 25 Oct 2022 -
FilmWomen Talking
Sarah Polley returns with an uncompromising drama in which a group of women discuss the endemic sexual violence within their Mennonite religious colony. Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley are among the excellent cast Read more »| 25 Oct 2022 -
BooksX by Davey Davis
Following a sadist on the hunt for a beautiful dominatrix, X is a dark, sensuous page-turner mirroring our current geopolitical climate Read more »| 25 Oct 2022 -
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MusicBon Iver @ OVO Hydro, Glasgow, 20 Oct
Playing one of his biggest gigs to date, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon seems to be having fun at tonight's Glasgow arena show Read more »| 24 Oct 2022 -
FilmGuillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Forget Disney's recent live-action Pinocchio – this gothic animation from Guillermo del Toro is a fantastical and heartfelt reimagining of Carlo Collodi's classic fairytale Read more »| 24 Oct 2022 -
FilmGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson follows up Knives Out with another star-studded whodunit and the results are an exercise in ridiculousness, wholly embraced by the game cast Read more »| 24 Oct 2022