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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TheatreHow can the Edinburgh Fringe become more Accessible?
The second instalment of our Fairer Fringe series looks at how accessible Edinburgh's Festival Fringe is for audiences with disabilities Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
FilmVarda by Agnès
The final film from French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda is touching, but there's little new to be gleaned from it Read more »| 22 Jun 2019 -
MusicBilly Corgan @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 17 Jun
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan debuts new solo music and shares personal monologues in a beautifully intimate performance of three parts Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
MusicHome is where the record player is
To help celebrate World Music Day, musician and promoter Bart Owl explores the importance of music; how it's always helping to develop new connections and new memories Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
MusicFoals @ SWG3, Glasgow, 18 Jun
Despite stage banter fraught with cheesy one-liners, Foals prove they've still got it with their 17-strong setlist taking in highlights across their back catalogue Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
Tv RadioStranger Things 3 release epic, action-packed trailer
Things get very Jurassic Park in the latest trailer for the much-anticipated third season of 80s-set sci-fi show Stranger Things Read more »| 21 Jun 2019
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FilmHarry Wootliff and stars on Glasgow drama Only You
Glasgow plays a pivotal role in the new romantic drama Only You, which follows a couple from a New Year's Eve hookup to the trials of conceiving a baby. We speak to director Harry Wootliff and stars Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor about the film Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
FilmGwen
A gritty performance by Maxine Peake and richly bleak photography by Adam Etherington are more than enough to recommend folk horror Gwen Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
BooksUniversal stories: Scotland's translation boom
With Highlands-based publisher Sandstone Press winning the world's largest prize for literature in translation, Laura Waddell takes a dive into Scotland's success in the world of translation Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
FilmAngus Macfadyen on Robert the Bruce
You wait years for a Robert the Bruce film... and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of Outlaw King, Angus Macfadyen reprises the role he played in Braveheart and tells us why he felt compelled to write an anti-war version of the Bruce legend Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
FilmHurt by Paradise
Female friendship is at the heart of Greta Bellamacina's debut feature, although she sometimes lets her visual style get in the way of her charismatic characters Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
ComedyJames Acaster @ Sands Centre, Carlisle
Everyone loves a bad boy. We're just surprised that James Acaster now qualifies as one. Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
MusicHoly Ghost! – Work
Holy Ghost! explore the full spectrum of dance-pop on their new album Work Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
Tv RadioChernobyl
Orwellian self-denial meets Kafkaesque nightmare in this gripping dramatisation of the Chernobyl disaster Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
MusicKate Tempest on The Book of Traps and Lessons
We speak to Kate Tempest about her third album, The Book of Traps and Lessons, which sees her viewing the Britain of today with a much wider lens than usual Read more »| 20 Jun 2019