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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FilmIn praise of Sofia Coppola's intoxicating cinema
As Sofia Coppola's new film The Beguiled comes to the UK and GFT gears up to honour her in its CineMasters series, we look back at the dreamy filmmaking of this smart, compassionate director Read more »| 06 Jul 2017 -
MusicWeigh Anchor: Mura Masa interviewed
Prodigal beatmaker and Anchor Point Records maestro Mura Masa talks to The Skinny about coming from the underground to make a pop album Read more »| 06 Jul 2017 -
ComedyEddie Izzard on Edinburgh, the Fringe and his memoir
A chat with Eddie Izzard as he races into the Edinburgh International Conference Centre with his new memoir Believe Me Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Music
The Skinny's Albums of 2017 so far
As we pass the midpoint of 2017, our music team select their favourite albums of the year to date, from the efforts of returning indie icons to dark and powerful collections from the brightest voices in modern rap Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Music
Lorde – Melodrama
Melodrama is a lesson in freefalling. It's taken four years for Ella Yelich-O'Connor to write a follow-up to Pure Heroine, but every single second sounds bre... Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
FilmThe Stone Killer
Shades of Inherent Vice in this 1973 Michael Winner crime thriller starring Charles Bronson Read more »| 05 Jul 2017
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Music
Binker and Moses – Journey to the Mountain of Forever
Summoning the spirit of John Coltrane, London sax-and-drums duo Binker and Moses invite the listener on a Journey to the Mountain of Forever on their new alb... Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Books
The Secret Life by Andrew O'Hagan
How does the internet disrupt our sense of self? Where does human personality and contradiction fit into the big stories of the age – and does it matte... Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Books
Swimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor
Short stories have a tendency to titillate but ultimately disappoint; by their very nature, they seem designed to be unfinished fragments of another world. W... Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Art
Parasite Rex @ CCA, Glasgow
Rob Churm's solo show at the CCA stretches over video, a new comic book and dozens of drawings, lusciously cross-hatched and written with personal, erudite and rambling text. Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Music
Sofar So Good: Sofar Sounds Edinburgh & Glasgow
We speak to Edinburgh and Glasgow Sofar Sounds organisers to find out what's next for the Scottish leg of this unique and intimate gigging community Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Art
This Will Ruin Everything: Recoat's 10th Birthday
As urban art specialists Recoat celebrate turning 10 with a 40-person exhibition in the Lighthouse, masterminds Amy Whiten and Alistair Wyllie assess the changing face of street art and design in Scotland Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Film
David Lynch: The Art Life
We meet David Lynch in fine-art mode in this dreamy doc with few penetrating insights Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Books
Broken River by J. Robert Lennon
"A small house, in the woods, far from anything fun." When Karl and Eleanor uproot from Brooklyn for a fresh start in upstate New York, their new fixer-upper... Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
Film
Morrissey’s childhood friend slams biopic England Is Mine
James Maker, musician and childhood friend of Morrissey, has taken umbrage with England is Mine, the upcoming Morrissey biopic from the team that made Control Read more »| 04 Jul 2017