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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FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a sumptuous adaptation, but it embellishes the novel to its own detriment Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: No Other Choice
Director Park Chan-wook returns to Venice with a Machiavellian teardown of capitalism and masculinity that saves its gory best for last Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: After the Hunt
Julia Roberts gives one of her best performances in Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt, but the wordy movie around her feels more like an exhaustive debate rather than a compelling drama Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2025: Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for a bold conspiracy theory thriller Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
MusicChappell Roan @ Royal Highland Showgrounds, Edinburgh, 26 Aug
Under Chappell Roan’s spell, Edinburgh Summer Sessions erupts into a kaleidoscopic queer celebration Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... Tarn
Following the release of his debut album as Tarn, we catch up with Glasgow-based producer and pianist Dan Brown Read more »| 28 Aug 2025
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MusicThe Linda Lindas @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 26 Aug
LA teen punks The Linda Lindas ride the crazy train from cute cat odes to brutal basslines in their debut Scottish show Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
MusicGreg Mendez @ Stereo, Glasgow, 18 Aug
Even though it’s the middle of August, with a blistering Scottish summer in full swing, Greg Mendez brings an autumnal and wintry vibe for his Glasgow debut Read more »| 26 Aug 2025 -
MusicDucks Ltd. @ Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, 24 Aug
Ducks Ltd. bring "the most attention-seeking version of the band yet" to Sneaky Pete's for a top night of indie power-pop, supported by Glasgow's own Former Champ Read more »| 26 Aug 2025 -
MusicSam Fender @ Royal Highland Showgrounds, Edinburgh, 22 Aug
Sam Fender brings his People Watching tour to the Edinburgh Summer Sessions with a spellbinding set of mass singalongs and misty-eyed gut punches Read more »| 26 Aug 2025 -
MusicCMAT – EURO-COUNTRY
CMAT is at the peak of her powers on glorious new album EURO-COUNTRY Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
MusicRoyel Otis – hickey
After a successful Glastonbury debut that propelled them further into stardom, Royel Otis take a confident leap forward with hickey Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
MusicWolf Alice – The Clearing
Lyrically knowing and sonically eclectic, the fourth album from London four-piece Wolf Alice pushes indie-rock forward Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
BooksShamiso by Brian Chikwava
An intimately told, raw love story between a Zimbabwean girl and a gender-fluid British person marks author Brian Chikwava as one to watch Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... Kai Reesu
Following the release of their mixtape KOMPROMAT vol. i and ahead of their appearance at PITCH Scotland, we catch up with Kai Reesu Read more »| 21 Aug 2025