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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MusicVanishing Twin @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 14 Jun
Vanishing Twin are experts in balancing elements and shifting textures, creating a sensual haven on one of the fringes of pop Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
BooksMy Past is a Foreign Country by Zeba Talkhani
Zeba Talkhani's memoir is a hopeful story of casting off cultural and personal expectations, and fighting for the right to individuality Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
ArtEmilia Beatriz @ CCA, Glasgow
Emilia Beatriz presents two 'video clusters' that galvanise international resistance to corporate and state land grabs, bringing them together through a sensual and pleasurable engagement with nature and the landscape Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
FilmIn Fabric
Peter Strickland continues to push at narrative conventions with this witty costume horror that's another extraordinarily rich and strange work from a unique filmmaker Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
FilmRobert the Bruce
Angus Macfadyen returns to the role he played 24 years ago in Mel Gibson's Braveheart with this stoic take on the Scottish freedom fighter that plays like a Celtic western Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
MusicStereolab @ SWG3, Glasgow, 22 Jun
Following a ten year hiatus, Stereolab's victory lap has more than enough innovative goodies to entice and entertain Read more »| 25 Jun 2019
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FilmSupport the Girls
The Hooters-style bar setting of Andrew Bujalski's Support the Girls and its double entendre title prove a misdirect; this is an empathetic, refreshingly incisive portrait of women at work that's as funny as it is generous Read more »| 25 Jun 2019 -
TheatreCaptain Corelli’s Mandolin @ King’s Theatre, Edinburgh
This stage adaption of Louis de Bernier's beloved novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is enjoyable, if a little underdeveloped Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmMemory: The Origins of Alien
78/52 director Alexandre O Philippe delves into the world of Ridley Scott's Alien – fanatics will find little new here, but this is an entertaining, informative companion to the 1979 sci-fi Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
MusicThe Skinny on EH-FM: Show 15 (Listen Again)
There was lots of nostalgia in our EH-FM show this week, from Sum 41 to Sheryl Crow, as well as new music from Metronomy and YACHT and a Paradise Palms 5th birthday special in clubs – listen back below Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmBait
Mark Jenkin emerges as a distinctive new voice in British filmmaking with this innovatively shot and edited melodrama concerned with the class tensions bubbling over between the skint locals and the wealthy holidaymakers in a Cornwall fishing village Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
MusicThe Skinny's Top 20 Albums of 2019 So Far
In a year where Scottish wunderkind Lewis Capaldi has dominated the charts, we polled our writers for their favourite albums of 2019 so far and here's what they've decided Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmAlways Be My Maybe
Always Be My Maybe is held back from being the next great romantic comedy thanks to a lack of clarity in its overall design but, as a home stream that’s sweet, warm and light, it’s the perfect comfort food Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
ClubsB2B: Nightwave x Nathan Fake
Ahead of both their sets at Kelburn Garden Party, close friends Nightwave and Nathan Fake have a B2B chat about their respective musical careers Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
ArtFiona Tan @ GoMA, Glasgow
Fiona Tan returns to the Gallery of Modern Art with her acclaimed video installation on the legacies of historical colonialism in Asia and the Middle East, and the exoticisation of these regions Read more »| 24 Jun 2019