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Festivals
Square Go @ Summerhall
The heady aroma of fear and Lynx Africa hangs in the air in Square Go, Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair’s hilarious new play concerned with the daily terr... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Film
Halloween Kills
Starting within seconds of the fiery denouement of David Gordon Green’s first Halloween sequel, Halloween Kills follows ever-stabby masked bogeyma... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
Festivals
Jumpers for Goalposts @ theSpace on the Mile
Tom Wells’ Jumpers for Goalposts has been imported from North England for this year’s Fringe by Kite in the Storm Theatre and New Celts Productio... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Music
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 29 May-4 Jun
Gigs in Edinburgh this week Distant Voices: Not Known at This Adress @ Leith Theatre, 29 MayThe Distant Voices project led by Admiral Fallow's Louis Abbott ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Travel
Great Exhibitions: Edinburgh Art Gallery Guide
Before you even get to the galleries, remnants of past Edinburgh Art Festival commissions can be found across the city centre. Martin Creed’s marble st... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
Things To Do
2019's Hogmanay Highlights with Skiddle
Nightvision Hogmanay with Alan Fitzpatrick & Patrick Topping @ The Liquid Room, Edinburgh The Edinburgh promotion giants have been putting on Hogmanay b... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
Festivals
Edinburgh Art Festival returns for 2021
One of the joys of an Edinburgh summer (a typical one anyway) is escaping the hubbub of the Fringe to venture into the city’s many great galleries to s... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
Film
The Skinny's Films of 2023: Our Writers' Top 10s
By now, you've probably seen The Skinny's top ten films of 2023 list featuring much-praised titles like Past Lives, Killers of the Flower Moon and All the Be... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
Art
A Barrage of Talent: GSA Degree Show 2018
Now in its fourth year in the Tontine, the Glasgow School of Art degree show experience is no longer feeling like the mysterious labyrinth it felt like back ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Music
The Skinny's Top 50 Albums of 2018
At the end of October we reached out to our music team, asking for their top ten albums of the year in order of preference; from 35 submissions we were ... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Travel
The Skinny Guide to the 2023 Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny Guide to Edinburgh 2023 is available from venues throughout Scotland from 3 July. Inside, you can find summaries of venues across Edinburgh's vari... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Film
Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within
Some labelled director José Padilha a fascist for his brutal account of Brazilian crime and (violent) punishment in the Golden Bear winning Elite Squa... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Festivals
Tomboy
Tomboy Laure (Héran) arrives at her new apartment in a leafy French suburb, and soon yearns for more than simply playing inside with her little sister... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
Festivals
Take One Action Film Festival 2011
The cynical among you may think Take One Action Film Festival is solely for agitated, veggie box ordering, be-sandled campaignistas; but this intelligen... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
Film
Chasing Ice
Is it possible to take a picture of climate change? Ask James Balog. Back in the more innocent pre-crash noughties, this National Geographic photographer fou... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Film
The Selfish Giant
In this Oscar Wilde-inspired addition to British cinema’s social realist canon, all of its Bradford milieu is in the gutter, but two boys are look... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Festivals
Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 2012: Walk in My Shoes
With events ranging from a community opera to a bi-polar circus, the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) promises an exploration of the mi... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Film
Kaboom
Kaboom opens with a naked Smith (Thomas Dekker) floating down a brightly lit corridor, looking a bit confused. So he should be. He is the centre of the colle... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Film
Northern Lights: A Nation on Film
From 1937 to the early fifties the Mass Observation movement deployed hundreds of volunteers across the country to document day-to-day British life. Their te... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Film
Flying Blind
In a tense world of racial profiling and questionable military ethics lands erotic political thriller Flying Blind, starring Helen McCrory as leading aerospa... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Film
Red Riding Hood
The critical reception from the US may be scary enough to keep filmgoers out of the big, dark multiplex this month as Red Riding Hood hits our screens. This ... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Film
When China Met Africa
Napoleon once said, “China is a sleeping giant but when she wakes she will shake the world.” Capturing this rising titan’s strides into Afr... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
Festivals
Take One Action 2012: Harold Crooks on Surviving Progress
“Conventional economics is a form of brain damage,” states scientist David Suzuki in Harold Crooks’ co-directed new film Surviving Progress... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Film
Draft Day
Sonny Weaver (Costner), general manager of the Cleveland Browns, is having a tough time in this Ivan Reitman comic drama. He's recently fired the team’... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Comedy
Danny Sutcliffe's Advent(ure) Calendar
A MESSAGE FROM THE DESK OF DANNY SUTCLIFFE, CHRISTMAS LABRADOR & EDITOR IN CHIEF: Ah it's you! Come in! Sit down! Cigar? No... I wouldn't either. I don... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Film
2013's Coming Attractions
Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer) — 22 Feb Based on the incredibly complex novel by David Mitchell (not that one), Cloud Atlas consists of ... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Clubs
Bacardi B-Live presents The Big Groove, Byblos, Glasgow, 23 Sept
Bacardi B-Live's The Big Groove will give Glaswegians the rare opportunity to embrace the sounds of house, disco and hip-hop all under one roof on the Septem... Read more »| Updated about 17 years ago -
Film
Watch the four-minute prologue to Alien: Covenant
A playful teaser to Alien: Covenant has arrived online introducing us to the crew of the eponymous colony spaceship, which is taking a long journey through s... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Music
Jay Rolex & MC Almond Milk – Smell the Audi
'Hi, I’m Scotland’s best rapper,' is how James Scott aka MC Almond Milk introduces himself on his debut LP. 'Like Blue Lagoon are Scotland’... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Clubs
Diesel, Motion, Blackfriars, Glasgow, 5 Oct
The launch of Motion sees Bios' Scott Fraser join forces with Under The Hood resident/promoter Danny Sharkey, showcasing the deeper side of house and techno.... Read more »| Updated about 17 years ago