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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FilmTick Tick Boom: Meet the team behind How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Blow Up a Pipeline might be the most important film of the year. It's certainly the most thrilling. We speak to the director and editor behind this nailbiting eco-thriller that's also a stunning political statement Read more »| 28 Apr 2023 -
ArtThe Skinny x Edinburgh Art Festival: Emerging Writers Open Call
We're joining forces with the Edinburgh Art Festival once again for an emerging writers' programme covering this year's festival Read more »| 28 Apr 2023 -
BooksOrdinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
Christina Sharpe's experimental visual poetic work Ordinary Notes is a profound rumination on knowledge, loss, Black American life and memory Read more »| 27 Apr 2023 -
BooksFray by Chris Carse Wilson
Chris Carse Wilson's debut is a beguiling and hallucinatory tale of grief amidst the wilderness Read more »| 27 Apr 2023 -
FilmReturn to Seoul
Return to Seoul is a piercing, powerful character drama driven by a fearless debut performance by Park Ji-min Read more »| 27 Apr 2023 -
BooksEnter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
A woman leaves her home in London to return to her homeland of Palestine in Isabella Hammad's complex, tender meditation on art, family, and resistance Read more »| 26 Apr 2023
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FilmNida Manzoor on her debut film Polite Society
We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor delivers a knockout with her debut feature film Polite Society, a riotously funny story of sisterly love featuring a heady blend of teen-girl hijinks, heist caper shenanigans and wuxia-style showdowns Read more »| 26 Apr 2023 -
BooksTrue Crime & Smuggling Snails: Alice Slater & Heather Parry in conversation
Authors Heather Parry and Alice Slater sit down over a shared Google Doc to discuss Slater's new book, the power of unlikeable characters, and grossness in fiction Read more »| 26 Apr 2023 -
MusicSkrillex, Fred Again.. and dance-pop as gateway and curse
We chat with two rising voices in Scottish dance music about pop crossovers, and why Skrillex is really just like Anakin Skywalker Read more »| 26 Apr 2023 -
MusicShonen Knife @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 20 Apr
Five decades into their career, Japanese pop-punk trio Shonen Knife are still effortlessly bringing the party with their undeniable energy Read more »| 26 Apr 2023 -
ComedyRich Hardisty @ The Stand, Edinburgh
Rich Hardisty’s debut, tackling addiction and mental health, is a well-intentioned but heavy-going hour Read more »| 25 Apr 2023 -
MusicIndigo De Souza – All of This Will End
Rising indie rocker Indigo De Souza takes no prisoners on her third album, but there's hope tangled up in all the rage Read more »| 25 Apr 2023 -
MusicNabihah Iqbal – DREAMER
At its high points, Nabihah Iqbal's new album DREAMER evokes otherworldly space, but a more pared-down edit could better highlight its strengths Read more »| 25 Apr 2023 -
MusicPost Coal Prom Queen – Music For First Contact
Post Coal Prom Queen have upgraded their sound since their cyberpunk rap opera, making Music For First Contact a nebulous album that posits questions as complex as its compositions Read more »| 25 Apr 2023 -
MusicJessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
The dancefloor Jessie Ware opened on her last album What’s Your Pleasure? shows no sign of closing on her new album. In fact, it’s got even sweatier Read more »| 24 Apr 2023