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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FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival: Time to get Transgressive
Glasgow Short Film Festival is back, and it's proposing all film schools be blown up and all boring films never made again. Director Matt Lloyd tells us more Read more »| 04 Mar 2016 -
ArtGeographies of Dust and Air @ Mary Mary
Mary Mary shows less is more in a group show of works that work on a tight economy of artists means. Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Books
Ten of the Best Book Podcasts and BookTubers
In need of a quick dose of fiction on the go? Fancy some in-depth book club discussions without the reading schedule? Behold, our guide to some of the best book podcasts and literary YouTubers (or 'BookTubers', don'tchaknow...) Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Film
Ghostbusters trailer: Wiig & McCarthy get bustin'
Director Paul Feig reveals the trailer for his new take on 80s classic Ghostbusters, with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones the ... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: March 2016 Horoscopes
ARIESGod made us in his own image, but also in his own flavour. Take a lick of your arm – it tastes just like God’s, but less hairy. TAURUSAfter... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
ComedyStuart Goldsmith: The Interviewer's Interview
Embarking on his first tour and welcoming a newborn baby, comedian and founder of the revered Comedian's Comedian podcast Stuart Goldsmith lets us in on... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016
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Film
Francofonia
Another night at the museum (this time the Louvre) with Russian auteur Alexander Sokurov Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Books
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
'Caitlin might call him MJ if they were ever on speaking terms. He doesn't think much of her harping on about her boyfriend trouble and her wine glasses... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
MusicBig Ups: Before A Million Universes album stream
New York noise rockers Big Ups are now streaming their second album Before A Million Universes ahead of its release on 4 March. The band will also ... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Theatre
SICK! Lab 2016 at Contact Theatre: What's in Store
As we wait for the biennial SICK! Festival in 2017, a collaborative symposium from the same team – exploring ideas of identity and trauma – is planned for this month. Ahead of the first SICK! Lab, creative director Tim Harrison talks to The Skinny Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Music
White Denim – Stiff
On Stiff, White Demin really put their backs in to it – infinite solos, myriad breakdowns, hooks on hooks on power chords and huge, brash intros..... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Film
Winter
Tommy Flanagan stars as an alcoholic artist with a troubled past in this commendable but seriously misjudged drama Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Music
Damien Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land
The third entry in his informal Maraqopa trilogy – a string of rustic, lightly psychedelic records themed around an imaginary hippie commune &ndas... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Film
The People vs Fritz Bauer
Burghart Klaußner stars in this real life story of a Jewish state attorney trying to hunt down a Nazi war criminal Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Chris Kehoe: Comedy Spotlight
The Boltonian satirist may have entered the comedy circuit later in life than some, but that just means he has a whole lot more to say about the state of the world Read more »| 03 Mar 2016