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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MusicL'Rain – fata morgana
On fata morgana, L’Rain continues to move in a lane all her own Read more »| 18 Aug 2026 -
MusicOpen Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal – DOOMED!
On DOOMED!, Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal have found a pocket that keeps you coming back – this is easily up there with one of the best hip-hop releases of the year Read more »| 18 Aug 2026 -
ArtInternationalism Strains at the Venice Biennale
Scotland + Venice Emerging Writer Samuel Riddy considers the pitfalls of the Venice Biennale's logic of global impartiality through the controversies surrounding the Russian and Israeli pavilions Read more »| 18 Aug 2026 -
FilmDaniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on Faces of Death
The 1978 gorefest Faces of Death has been retooled, but this is no lazy IP-mining remake. Filmmakers Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei explain how their film is digging into our troubling relationship with screen violence Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: I Want Your Sex
Gregg Araki is back with a new film exploring the relationship between an artist and her much younger employee; unfortunately, the sex in this sex comedy has a mechanical music video sheen Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: The Education of Jane Cumming
So many elements of The Education of Jane Cumming are great – the cast, music, period detail, writing – but it rushes its conclusion, delivering much of the story's dramatic details as text title cards during the credits Read more »| 17 Aug 2026
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FilmEIFF 2026: Snapshot
Director Joseph Archer and writer Cathy Wippell give the found footage horror subgenre a shot in the arm with the eerie Snapshot, which is presented as a proto documentary from the late 1880s that reveals new information about Jack the Ripper Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
MusicPhoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend
The third studio album from Phoebe Bridgers is stitched into near-perfection with love, patience and resilience Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Goodbye Cruel World
Félix De Givry – best known as the lead actor from Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden – announces himself as a hugely promising filmmaking talent with this sensitive teen drama that calls to mind the youth films of the French New Wave Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: The Peril at Pincer Point
With The Peril at Pincer Point, directors Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine have created a wonderfully atmospheric low-budget cinema marvel that sits somewhere between Lake Michigan Monster and Widow’s Bay Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
MusicMusic Now Podcast: Bikini Body on songwriting, riff-tracking, and having fun with it
On the latest episode of our Scottish music podcast, we talk riff management, favourite songs and new music with Edinburgh dance-post-punks Bikini Body Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Mission
George MacKay is perfectly cast as a young man going through an existential crisis in Paul Wright's Mission. His full-bodied performance helps us overlook some of the film's narrative flaws Read more »| 17 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Her Private Hell
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest is as stylised, camp and violent as we've come to expect from this cult filmmaker, but unfortunately it's also deeply boring Read more »| 16 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: The Arrow at Rest at Every Instant of its Flight
Theodore Schaefer's black-and-white portmanteau shot on 16mm film is a visual, aural and intellectual treat, a wonderful ode to the energy of New York City and a superb showcase of the unique star power of its lead actor, Gus Birney Read more »| 16 Aug 2026 -
FilmEIFF 2026: Capsized
There are shades of Little Miss Sunshine in this deft comedy centred on a family coming together during a crisis, which features terrific performances for a cast that includes Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe Read more »| 15 Aug 2026