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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MusicTyphoon – Offerings
Portland’s eleven-headed indie rock crew Typhoon return with their fourth album, Offerings; a difficult, cerebral journey through the fracturing of a single soul Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
FilmBafta 2018 snubs: from Get Out to Greta Gerwig
Bafta voters are famously clueless, but this year's set of nominations are particularly infuriating. We look over the award body's biggest oversights in this year's nominations, which were announced this morning Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
FilmThe Post
Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks lead this timely newsroom procedural about the release of the Pentagon Papers Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
MusicThe Xcerts: Under the Influence
As The Xcerts get ready to release their third album, Hold on to Your Heart, frontman Murray Macleod tells us about the influential songs which helped shape the album Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
ArtJohn Byrne Award profiles: Katie Blair Matthews
In the latest edition of our series profiling recipients of the John Byrne Award, we meet 23-year-old Edinburgh photographer Katie Blair Matthews Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
Music
Scottish Music Highlights: 9-15 Jan
Get back into the gigging swing of things with King Tut's New Year's Revolution, a Shirley Collins documentary, and an Edinburgh show from a former Kraftwerk member Read more »| 09 Jan 2018
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Film
Lover for a Day
A young woman returns home to crash at her middle-age professor father's flat, only to find he's in a relationship with one of his students Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
Film
Richard Linklater on buddy movie Last Flag Flying
Richard Linklater is back with another left-turn: a low-key road movie starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne that's a kind-of sequel to Hal Ashbey's Last Detail. We speak to this most mercurial of filmmakers Read more »| 09 Jan 2018 -
Music
John MOuse – Gladiator / Contender (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for Gladiator / Contender by John MOuse Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
Art
A Synchronology @ Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
A new Hunterian exhibition tracks and celebrates some of the artists that have formed the programme of Glasgow gallery The Common Guild's first decade of programming. Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
Comedy
Gilded Balloon: 2018 Highlights
Gilded Balloon bring new life to the comedy, cabaret and theatre scenes with an inspiring programme and new venue in the heart of Edinburgh's West End Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
Comedy
John Kearns interviewed by Fringe Dog
Double comedy award winner John Kearns chats with Fringe Dog about happiness, collaborations and marmalade ahead of his Glasgow and Edinburgh tour dates Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
Music
Idlewild to headline Help Musicians Scotland launch gig
To help launch Help Musicians’ permanent new Scottish operation, Scottish indie heroes Idlewild will play an acoustic set at a special King Tut’s gig Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
Books
Bloody January by Alan Parks
From the moneyed elite to groupies, and the brutal gangs of an urban wasteland, Bloody January navigates the underbelly of 1970s Glasgow. Read more »| 08 Jan 2018 -
Film
The Final Year
Greg Barker's documentary follows President Obama's team during his final year in office. Despite this unprecedented access, the resulting film is disappointingly disjointed Read more »| 08 Jan 2018