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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FilmEIFF 2023: Rodger Griffiths on Kill
Kill, the debut feature from Rodger Griffiths, sees three brothers plan to off their abusive dad while on a hunting trip. Griffiths talks to us about shooting this lean, mean thriller, which has its world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 15 Aug 2023 -
MusicShamir – Homo Anxietatem
Shamir confronts anxieties with tender vulnerability through guitar-laden alt-pop, with folk-tinged lyrical sensibility on his ninth album Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
MusicThe XCERTS – Learning How to Live and Let Go
The XCERTS fifth studio album may fluctuate in tone, but it's still chock full of heart and vulnerability Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
FilmEIFF 2023: Jeanie Finlay on Your Fat Friend
Jeanie Finlay’s intimate portrait of author Aubrey Gordon aims to make us rethink our attitude to the word 'fat'. The filmmaker explains why she wanted to document Gordon's life and activism ahead of Your Fat Friend's Scottish premiere at EIFF Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
FilmEIFF 2023: Variety’s disruptive voyeurism at 40
On its 40th anniversary, Bette Gordon’s 1983 feminist classic Variety is back in cinemas. Let this subversive, sensuous neo-noir take you to the most uncomfortable places Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
MusicHozier – Unreal Unearth
Despite the album’s overly manufactured pitfalls, Hozier’s work evokes the deeply relatable feeling of searching for something to cling to as we are swept along by the tides of destruction Read more »| 14 Aug 2023
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FilmEIFF 2023: Babak Jalali on Fremont
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival closes with Babak Jalali's Fremont. Jalali tells about his desire to make a film with empathy and compassion, but without the schmaltz Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
MusicSugababes @ Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, 8 Aug
Sugababes finally get to reap the love of being one of the greatest pop groups of the century Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
MusicAurora Engine on TERRE, showcasing at Made In Scotland
Ahead of her run as part of this year's Made In Scotland showcase, we catch up with Aurora Engine to find out how she incorporates Scotland's landscape and wildlife into her music Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
MusicCarla J. Easton @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 3 Aug
Carla J. Easton paints a rainbow as she brings her dayglo daydreams to The Hug & Pint Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
BooksBut The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel is a delicate investigation into intergenerational immigrant subjectivities Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
MusicSophie Ellis-Bextor @ Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, 4 Aug
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is in her element tonight as the sun shines bright for her shimmering disco set at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Bandstand Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
ArtEdinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2023
Edinburgh Art Festival's Platform exhibition returns with a fresh cohort of emerging talent. This year, each artist has been paired with a writer from the EAF x The Skinny writer programme to explore their practice Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
ArtQueering the City: Edinburgh Art Festival 2023
As Edinburgh Art Festival returns this month, The Skinny meet Sean Burns and Tarek Lakhrissi to discuss their artistic contributions to the festival Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
BooksDevorah Baum, Alva Gotby and Sophie K Rosa on what radical love looks like
Ahead of their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, we ask authors Devorah Baum, Alva Gotby and Sophie K Rosa about their most utopian imagination of what love can look like Read more »| 09 Aug 2023