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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FilmIn the Radiant City
Rachel Lambert's debut about a dysfunctional family in the Deep South is flawed but promising Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
FilmParadise
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
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MusicCarla 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 -
FilmSharlto 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 -
FilmFree 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 -
Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 17-23 Feb
Take your pick from disco, Nightrave grooves and a special one-off film screening in this week's Glasgow clubbing highlights Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 17-23 Feb
It's a German extravaganza this week in Edinburgh's clubs, with The Zenker Brothers, Ostgut Ton's Tama Sumo and Ninetoes all stopping in to spin the goods Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Film
Folk Hero & Funny Guy
Disappointingly generic buddy road movie starring Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell, Meredith Hagner and Melanie Lynskey. Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Film
Original Bliss
This cinema adaptation of AL Kennedy’s short story collection from German filmmaker Sven Taddicken is a disquieting investigation into marriage, faith, sex and violence Read more »| 17 Feb 2017 -
Music
Tsutro – Tsutro
On the one hand, Jacob Montague is the canonical hipster – plaid shirts, strong beard, enjoys “San Francisco’s finest iced coffee” on... Read more »| 17 Feb 2017