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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FilmGints Zilbalodis on Oscar-winning animation Flow
The major underdog at this year's Oscars was Flow, a low-budget, dialogue-free animation from Latvia about a band of animals surviving the end of the world. We speak to director Gints Zilbalodis about his beguiling film Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: March 2025
Dress to dance, dance to sweat, the March clubbing highlights could be our best month yet. Top picks include Mr. Scruff, Celtic Erections, aya, Karenn, and Teki Latex Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
BooksScottish Books Events: March 2025
StAnza Poetry Festival returns to St Andrews this month, while there's plenty of book launches and poetry readings across Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: March 2025
This month, Scotland is visited by multiple national tours, as well as a host of enticing locally made productions Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
FilmScottish Film Events: March 2025
This March, expect many film festivals, unmissable retrospectives on two hugely influential filmmakers and a whole load of Q&A screenings for new work Read more »| 28 Feb 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... Intibint
Following the release of her latest single, Ymn Alsa3eed., we catch up with Glasgow-based, Yemeni singer, songwriter, producer and visual artist Intibint Read more »| 27 Feb 2025
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FilmJames McArdle on Hamlet, baddies & new film Four Mothers
James McArdle is a familiar face from stage and television, but he's yet to lead a movie. That all changes with Four Mothers, in which he plays an Irish novelist caring for his elderly mother Read more »| 27 Feb 2025 -
MusicMan Rei + Ugnė Uma @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 23 Feb
A double bill of Eastern-European experimentalists finds two artists – Man Rei and Ugnė Uma – plumbing shadowy emotional depths Read more »| 26 Feb 2025 -
MusicDARKSIDE – Nothing
On the third record, DARKSIDE are happy to remain unfixed, bumping between fun and familiar grooves with an element of chaos Read more »| 26 Feb 2025 -
MusicIchiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures
On her latest album, Luminescent Creatures, Ichiko Aoba's compositions move incrementally, like the limbs of coral on the seabed, flourishing with cultivation and care Read more »| 25 Feb 2025 -
MusicMarie Davidson – City of Clowns
Marie Davidson’s City of Clowns melds dark industrial beats with biting lyrics to challenge the grip big tech has on our lives Read more »| 25 Feb 2025 -
MusicPanda Bear – Sinister Grift
On his seventh album as Panda Bear, Noah Lennox delivers ten meticulously crafted songs, exploring a new thematic territory that's bittersweet but buoyant Read more »| 25 Feb 2025 -
FilmThe Last Showgirl
Jamie Lee Curtis grooving to Total Eclipse of the Heart is one of the few highlights in this disappointing study of a Las Vegas showgirl approaching the end of her career Read more »| 24 Feb 2025 -
FilmThe Monkey
Theo James plays twin brothers in the possession of a cursed toy monkey in this gory horror comedy that's rarely scary nor funny Read more »| 21 Feb 2025 -
BooksCarrion Crow by Heather Parry
The new novel from acclaimed Glasgow-based author Heather Parry is a surreal Gothic exploration of marriage, class and sexuality Read more »| 21 Feb 2025