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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Film
Love Is Not What It Used to Be (El amor no es lo que era)
In one Spanish city, three couples of varying ages undergo differing experiences of modern love: elderly former lovers meet again after years apart, a middle... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Film
We Are Analogue: Chris Petit on post-cinema and the Museum of Loneliness
Writer, director and artist, Chris Petit brings his post-cinematic multi-platform project, Museum of Loneliness to GFF14. We catch up with Chris to find out what exactly is post-cinema and what it means for viewers in our post-modern age. Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Film
Under the Skin
Under the Skin, the long awaited cinematic return of Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth), opens with a hallucinatory dance of light and sound, which in turn ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Music
Sudden Death of Stars – All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown
Everything the Sudden Death of Stars do is not so much tinged but teeming with a sepia tone. The Rennes sextet exist in that increasingly inclusive realm of ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Music
Johnny Foreigner – You Can Do Better
Diminishing returns? Nah. Johnny Foreigner may plead ignorance as to why they still haven’t mellowed out by this fourth record, but it’s false mo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Music
Bill Pritchard – A Trip to the Coast
Staffordshire-born songwriter Bill Pritchard has been releasing music intermittently since the eighties, though if the name doesn’t ring bells it&rsquo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014
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Film
Film News: Robert Rodriguez talks Sin City sequels; Hugh Jackman on Wolverine, and more
In today's Film News, Robert Rodriquez talks Sin City sequels; Hugh Jackman discusses his return to the role of Wolverine; cult director Don Coscarelli reveals he is still in love with rubber suit monsters, and we look at the latest casting rumours Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Comedy
Comedy Spotlight: Peter Brush
Meet Peter Brush, 'a very serious man' Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Music
We Are Scientists – TV en Francais
The inexplicably titled TV en Français is, supposedly, the fourth studio LP from New York indie buds We Are Scientists (if we ignore 2002’s quir... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Music
of Montreal @ Gorilla, Manchester, 19 February
The girl whose vocals Kevin Barnes spent years seeking out, Rebecca Cash, sultrily announces him as “My personal lord and saviour” before the of ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Music
of Montreal / Calvin Love @ The Art School, Glasgow, 18 February
Midway through his debut Scottish show, synth-toting songsmith Calvin Love decides to “go out on a limb” by playing a cover. The song in question... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Music
Vertical Scratchers – Daughter of Everything
Few garage/indie records employ the less-is-more principle with quite as much commitment and effectiveness as the debut from this LA duo. John Schmersal (gui... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Music
Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures – Gin
Named after the drink that fuelled its recording, Stanley Brinks’ third collaboration with The Wave Pictures is a somewhat untidy collection that in it... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Film
Gore Lore: Nicholas D. Wrathall documents Gore Vidal
Director Nicholas D. Wrathall introduces his decade-in-the-making documentary portrait of the late Gore Vidal Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Film
Mystery Road
Teetotal detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pederson) returns to his hometown in the Australian Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl. Forced to endure bo... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014