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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FilmGreen Book's Oscar win is a catastrophe of bad taste
The glib race-relations drama joins the likes of Crash, Argo and Driving Miss Daisy on the long list of mediocre films to win Best Picture Read more »| 25 Feb 2019 -
FilmCold Pursuit
Another bit of 'Neesplotation' that's quite entertaining for a while, but Neeson's recent confessions of racist revenge fantasies in his youth also leave a bad taste Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
FilmThe Sisters Brothers
Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly stars in Jacques Audiard’s nihilistic, beautiful, sweet post-western The Sisters Brothers Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
TheatreJersey Boys @ Playhouse, Edinburgh
Oh what a night, indeed – the West End hit's new touring production is full of joy and energy Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
MusicBODEGA @ YES, Manchester, 17 Feb
New York post-punks BODEGA play the first of two sold-out nights at Manchester's YES and prove why they're one of the buzziest bands around right now Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
FilmGFF19: The Vanishing
Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler and Connor Swindells play lighthouse keepers going through psychological turmoil in Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm’s handsome, satisfyingly dour Scottish thriller Read more »| 22 Feb 2019
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FilmThe Skinny's Final Oscar Predictions
Who will win, who should win and who should have been nominated? Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
FilmTransit
In Christian Petzold's inventive adaptation of Anna Seghers' Marseille-set WWII novel, past and present fold in on themselves to draw parallels between the fear and paranoia of Nazi-occupied Europe and the treatment of refugees in Europe today Read more »| 22 Feb 2019 -
MusicArt Brut @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 20 Feb
With a sense of barely controlled chaos throughout the night, Art Brut know how to ride the line between self-awareness and self-parody, and how to have a great time doing it Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
MusicBayonne – Drastic Measures
Drastic Measures is a firm step up for Bayonne, an album that continues to demonstrate the development of his effervescent sonic world Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
MusicTeeth of the Sea – WRAITH
Occupying the same fertile underground as their Rocket Recordings stablemates, Teeth of the Sea deliver the goods once again on their latest album, Wraith Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
MusicMarkers – Heaven in the Dark Earth
With Heaven in the Dark Earth, Markers submerge the listener into their world of dignified silences, where the slightest movement of fingers on a fret board creates heightened drama Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
MusicAvril Lavigne – Head Above Water
An unfortunate, pretty bog-standard collection of pop songs fails to help Avril Lavigne stay afloat on her first record in five years Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
MusicSleaford Mods – Eton Alive
Sleaford Mods' latest album, Eton Alive is a belch in the face of the architects of austerity, a cry of sheer life amid an increasingly deadening environment Read more »| 21 Feb 2019 -
MusicThe Reverse Engineer – Nonagonal Hexagon (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for Nonagonal Hexagon by Edinburgh producer The Reverse Engineer Read more »| 21 Feb 2019