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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BooksPetite Fleur by Iosi Havilio
In endings, there are perhaps new beginnings. Starting with the explosive end to his job at a fireworks factory, this new novel from Argentina's Iosi Havilio... Read more »| 31 Jul 2017 -
FilmA look inside Lynchian psychodrama The Ghoul
Gareth Tunley and Tom Meeten discuss making mind-bending psychological thriller The Ghoul Read more »| 31 Jul 2017 -
Music
Siobhan Wilson @ Eagle Inn, Salford, 12 Jul
The Glasgow-based singer-songwriter puts on a shape-shifting, jaw-dropping performance of her new album in Salford. Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
Film
IT trailer: Killer clown Pennywise is back!
The terrifying creature is back to terrorise a new generation with this adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel Read more »| 28 Jul 2017 -
Art
Finas Townsend III @ CCA, Glasgow
Finas Townsend III exhibits a series of abstract paintings, though their expected import is subtly subverted Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
FilmSuburbicon trailer: Matt Damon + George Clooney + Coens
Matt Damon is seeking violent revenge in George Clooney’s latest film as director, working from a darkly comic script by the Coen Brothers Read more »| 27 Jul 2017
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Film
In praise of Jonathan Demme's soulful cinema
Jonathan Demme was the maker of compassionate cinema full of interesting faces and funky music; in August, Glasgow Film pays tribute to Demme in the cinema's ongoing CineMasters series. Here's what made the director, who died in April, so special Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Music
Why has Ed Sheeran been nominated for the Mercury?
As the 2017 shortlist for the Hyundai Mercury Prize is announced, we take a closer look at the nominees and generally have a grumble about Ed Sheeran. Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
MusicULTRAS – Stepping Out (MC Almond Milk Remix): Premiere
Listen to the MC Almond Milk Remix of Stepping Out from ULTRAS' self-titled debut album Read more »| 27 Jul 2017 -
Film
Maudie
A laudable performance by Sally Hawkins can't save this sluggish biopic of painter Maude Lewis Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
Film
Rick and Morty season three gets UK launch date
The new season of the cult animation will start streaming on Netflix in the UK this Sunday Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
Books
So Happy It Hurts by Anneliese Mackintosh
Roping together Ottila McGregor’s struggle to quit alcohol, recover from her father’s death, support her mentally ill sister and form a relations... Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
Clubs
Fully Flexed: Bicep interviewed
Ahead of their long anticipated debut album, we speak to Belfast duo Bicep to find out what's taken so long Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
Film
Detroit
The terrifying middle act of docudrama Detroit might be the best thing Kathryn Bigelow's ever made, though it's surrounded by clumsiness in the film's bookending material Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
Music
M.O.T.O. – Longshot (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for Longshot by experimental, occultist beatmaker M.O.T.O Read more »| 26 Jul 2017