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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FilmFive underrated directorial debuts by actors
Inspired by Don Cheadle's upcoming directorial debut, Miles Ahead, we look back at five underrated first features by talented actors who could quite easily g... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Theatre
Chris Gascoyne on Endgame by Samuel Beckett
According to Samuel Beckett, nothing is funnier than unhappiness. As his existentialist play Endgame opens at Citizens Theatre and HOME, actor Chris Gascoyne... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
FilmFrom Afar
First time director Lorenzo Vigas's From Afar is a gritty and cinematic study in desire and repression, set on the mean streets of Caracas, Venezuela From A... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
TheatreStage School: What Is Theatre of the Absurd?
What is Theatre of the Absurd, and why does it speak to us? As a new production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame by Citizens Theatre director Dominic Hill comes t... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Film
Green Room
Punk v Nazi thriller from the mind that brought you Blue Ruin Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to Blue Ruin, trades the latter’s revenge ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Music
Tame Impala / Jagwar Ma @ Manchester Arena
Tame Impala hit Manchester the day after Mark Ronson shared videos for Summer Breaking and Daffodils, two songs he worked on with frontman Kevin Parker for U... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016
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FilmWeepah Way for Now
Delightful, full-of-life drama about two sisters, played by real life siblings AJ and Aly Michalka. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Music
Foals / Everything Everything @ The SSE Hydro, 12 Feb
Everything Everything are on expert form tonight, an overqualified support act blowing the lid off an almost-too-good-to-be-true bill for fans of complex art... Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
FilmCain's Children
A compelling documentary suggesting that capitalism has proved just as oppressive to the people of Eastern Europe as communism. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Film
Speed Sisters
Lively doc following five female drag racers in Palestine. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Film
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Doc about the famous week-long sit-down between François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock, with some contemporary auteurs explaining the interview and subsequent book's importance Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Film
Hyena Road
Paul Gross's film shines a light on soldiering in Afghanistan, but the result is an apolitical rabble-rouser Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: GFF & more
Glasgow Film Festival hosts visual art events at CCA and GFT this week with the Margaret Tait Film Award, and new exhibitions also open at Collective, WASPS, Transmission and the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
Comedy
Fringe fave Rob Auton on poetry, comedy and magic
Walking the line between comedy and spoken word, Rob Auton is a unique performer who’s won our hearts with his capacious and emotive shows. As he prepa... Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
Music
Eliza and the Bear / Into the Ark / Michael Cassidy @ Electric Circus, 11 Feb
It’s hard to say whether Electric Circus being almost at capacity by 7pm is testament to the keenness of the headliner’s fans, or to the respecti... Read more »| 16 Feb 2016