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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MusicHoly Fuck – Deleter
The Canadian quartet deliver a modern day electro masterclass with their fourth album Read more »| 14 Jan 2020 -
FilmOscar nominations are in and it's all lads, lads, lads
Once again it's an all-male lineup in the Best Director category, and the awful Joker is somehow this year's frontrunner with 11 nominations, but it's not all bad in this year's anyone-could-win Oscars race Read more »| 13 Jan 2020 -
FilmHoly Macaroni Pie! Batman is coming to Glasgow
The latest version of Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as The Caped Crusader, will be partly shot in Glasgow, with Scotland’s largest city doubling for Gotham Read more »| 13 Jan 2020 -
ArtHal Fischer @ GoMA, Glasgow
GoMA's exhibition of Hal Fischer's work celebrates his renowned photography that documents a specific moment of 70s gay male history with conceptual cleverness and humour Read more »| 13 Jan 2020 -
FilmFive great "one-shot" films
Ahead of the release of Sam Mendes's 1917, a first world war film that appears to be shot in just one take, we consider the merits of some of cinema's other great "one-shot" wonders Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
MusicField Music – Making a New World
It ain't half pop, mum. Field Music look back in style – but even further back with the concept – on their seventh album of kinder, gentler music Read more »| 10 Jan 2020
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MusicBurns&Beyond announce Tiny Changes benefit line-up
The fundraising concert for the charity set up in honour of Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison features We Were Promised Jetpacks, Kathryn Joseph, Aidan Moffat and more Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: January 2020
The year kicks off with big weekends at either end of January, plus a very special Sneaky Pete's set from S-Type Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
FilmUncut Gems
The Safdie brothers follow up Good Time with another frenetic New York drama, as Adam Sandler gives a great performance as a brash jeweller who dabbles in various suspect tradings across the city Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
MusicRecord Store Day relaunches its unsigned competition for 2020
Ahead of returning for its 13th year this April, Record Store Day relaunch its unsigned bands competition, #RSDUnsigned Read more »| 09 Jan 2020 -
FilmThe Skinny's Films of the 2010s
This was a decade of upheaval and change in the film industry, but the films themselves were as strong as ever. New talent like Jordan Peele and Barry Jenkins emerged while masters like Claire Denis and Martin Scorsese were making some of their best work Read more »| 09 Jan 2020 -
FilmCaitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl to close Glasgow Film Festival
This UK premiere starring Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein will be joined by French drama Proxima, starring Eva Green, which will open the festival Read more »| 09 Jan 2020 -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: January 2020
New exhibitions at Tramway and an exciting programme around DCA's latest exhibition feature in this month's art round-up Read more »| 08 Jan 2020 -
BooksThe Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan's new book is a dramatic real-life story told with passion that might have worked better as a true-crime podcast Read more »| 08 Jan 2020 -
FilmThe 2020 BAFTA nominations are a joke
Once again, BAFTA – the UK’s leading awards body – has proved itself seriously out-of-touch with its latest set of nominations Read more »| 07 Jan 2020