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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FilmRiot Girls: Michael Caton-Jones on Our Ladies
Veteran filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones returns to filmmaking in Scotland for the first time since 1995's Rob Roy for Our Ladies, his long-in-the-making adaptation of Alan Warner’s The Sopranos Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
TheatreAntigone, Interrupted @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Thought-provoking, thrilling and enthralling – Scottish Dance Theatre's genre-busting solo show is a triumph Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
MusicPeggy Sue – Vices
Vices finds Peggy Sue dispelling bad behaviour and toxic relationships – a notion we can all relate to at a time of climatic and political flux Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
FilmDark Waters
Todd Haynes returns with a gripping, true-life procedural centred on the Cincinnati lawyer who tirelessly battled multinational chemical firm DuPont Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
MusicCaribou – Suddenly
On Caribou's seventh album, Dan Snaith finds his voice and brings his experimental side to the fore without sacrificing his perfectly lush melodies Read more »| 24 Feb 2020 -
MusicBABYMETAL @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 19 Feb
Flawlessly choreographed and delivered with more rock’n’roll spirit than most of the genre’s so-called ‘saviours’, BABYMETAL are the best at it by far Read more »| 24 Feb 2020
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Tv RadioI Am Not Okay With This
Stranger Things meets The End of the F***ing World (and probably anything else you’ve ever seen) in this hugely derivative yet entertaining teen drama Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicAndrew Weatherall obituary: The DJ world loses its Guv’nor
Arguably the most complete artist to emerge from the acid house era, DJ, producer and remixer Andrew Weatherall died earlier this week, aged 56. We look back on his legacy Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicArmy of One: MALKA on I'm Not Your Soldier
Faced with personal and geographical upheaval, MALKA’s Tamara Schlesinger looked inward to summon her most striking and sanguine solo statement yet Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicKindness @ CCA, Glasgow, 18 Feb
As Kindness, Adam Bainbridge delivers a captivating masterclass in performing like no one’s watching, whilst simultaneously fixating the audience on your every move Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicHMLTD @ Opium, Edinburgh, 15 Feb
The London glam punks spring into action in the upstairs of Edinburgh's Opium nightclub, but their dedicated fans are the real stars of the night Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
FilmMasculinity in Crisis: Peter Mackie Burns on Rialto
Daphne director Peter Mackie Burns returns with fine-grained drama Rialto, which follows a middle-aged Dublin dock worker going through a crisis. The Glaswegian director tells us how the likes of Chekhov, Mike Leigh and David Bowie influence his work Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
FilmPortrait of a Lady on Fire
French director Céline Sciamma's imagined historical romance is a love story for the ages Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicGrimes – Miss Anthropocene
Grimes' fifth album Miss Anthropocene is uneven, gloomy and baffling, and yet contains enough of her magic to remain an enthralling listen Read more »| 21 Feb 2020 -
MusicLee Ranaldo & Raül Refree – Names of North End Women
Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree’s collaboration has strong moments but too often drifts into aimlessness Read more »| 20 Feb 2020