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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MusicSacred Paws @ Summerhall, 10 Feb
“Sorry for being such a downer on a Friday evening..." remarks The Doozer halfway through his performance. We have to be honest and say he is a bit of ... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
MusicKid Canaveral's Lumber Party II @ Stereo, 11 Feb
A troupe of nuns adorned with eye patches and smears of lipstick, a raffle, electro and indie-pop, drink-fueled dancing, and a SAY Award winner at a tiny pia... Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
MusicGlass Mountain – Cowboy Song (Video Premiere)
Watch the video for the new track from Bradford four-piece Glass Mountain, as we catch up with vocalist Harry Hanson Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
FilmA Man for All Seasons
The 1966 Oscar-winner gets the Blu-ray treatment from Masters of Cinema Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
Terrence Malick's Song to Song: Watch the trailer
Watch the first trailer for Terrence Malick's Austin-set music scene drama featuring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and many, many more Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
In the Radiant City
Rachel Lambert's debut about a dysfunctional family in the Deep South is flawed but promising Read more »| 20 Feb 2017
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Film
Paradise
Veteran Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsy stretches plausibility with an experimental take on the Holocaust drama Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
Film
Salt and Fire
Werner Herzog reunites with Michael Shannon for a fitfully amusing but largely stilted eco-thriller Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
Film
Louise by the Shore
Veteran French animator Jean-François Laguionie's latest centres on a septuagenarian who finds herself abandoned in an off-season holiday resort Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
Film
Soul on a String
A beguiling combination of Western and Buddhist parable, Zhang Yang’s latest is a beautiful and thought-provoking work which suffers from being overlong and narratively unfocused Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
Film
Logan
The third standalone film for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is violent and visceral – and the best from the X-Men franchise to date Read more »| 18 Feb 2017 -
Music
Carla dal Forno @ Paradise Palms, Edinburgh, 8 Feb
We arrive in good time for Carla dal Forno’s free gig at Paradise Palms tonight – and just as well, really. It's already heaving – in some ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Film
Sharlto Copley and Ben Wheatley on Free Fire
Free Fire's director and one of its stars on single-location thrills and spirited scumbags. Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Film
Free Fire
Shades of Sam Peckinpah in this star-studded action film about an arms deal gone wrong from Sightseers director Ben Wheatley Jean-Luc Godard once said that ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Music
Astronomyy – Everythin' on my Mind: Track Premiere
Listen to a brand new track from the Worcestershire-based producer's brand new EP Read more »| 17 Feb 2017