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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FilmThe Last Stand
"I'll give the sheriff a call to tell him to get out of the way." When a psychopathic cartel boss is sprung from custody in Las Vegas and races towards the M... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
FilmSacrifice
If there's one thing that we learn from this historical epic from director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine), it is that if revenge is a dish best served co... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
MusicNancy Elizabeth – Dancing
Arguably her most elaborate offering to date, Nancy Elizabeth’s third album Dancing pushes the Lancastrian singer-songwriter’s neo-folk... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Art
Stephen Sutcliffe @ Tramway, until 30 Jun
Stephen Sutcliffe’s video installation Outworks is difficult to assess. It gives rise to myriad seemingly contradictory adjectives – at once humo... Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
Film
The Unbelievable Truth
Audry feels, and looks, like the heroine of a Nouvelle Vague film who is trapped in the very ordinary surroundings of a Long Island suburb in the late 1980s.... Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
Film
Something in the Air (Après mai)
Set in 1971, Something in the Air is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s ebullient tribute to the kids who had to follow in the footsteps... Read more »| 17 May 2013
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Music
The Bulletin: T Break Lineup Announced | 17 May
In today's Bulletin, the News Badger brings you an in-depth guide to the T Break stage at T in the Park, including indie-electro darlings Machines In Heaven, hip-hop phenomenons Hector Bizerk, garage rock duo Honeyblood, and majestic post-rockers Vasa Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
Film
Fast & Furious 6
Fast & Furious 5 (aka Fast Five) abandoned virtually any semblance of its series’ street racing routes, retooling the blockbuster franchise into an... Read more »| 16 May 2013 -
Film
The Liability
The Liability, Craig Vivieros’ second feature following prison drama debut Ghosted, offers enough surprises to raise it above the mire of recent dopey ... Read more »| 16 May 2013 -
Theatre
Looking Back to the Future
Cooking up a new dish with old ingredients Read more »| 16 May 2013 -
Film
The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann's latest foray into vintage decadence delivers the director's characteristic flamboyance and romance, and serves as a perfect companion to both ... Read more »| 15 May 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 15 May
In today's Bulletin: Lord Quas honoured by city of LA; Jay-Z's time travelling exploits; the return of dead holographic rappers; new music from CSS, The Pictish Trail, Holy Ghost!, Baauer and more; plus the latest festival news Read more »| 15 May 2013 -
Music
Sounds from the Other City, Various Venues (Salford), 5 May
From psych rock howled out over a United-Chelsea game to a goth samba band in the street, two intrepid explorers enjoy the inherently bonkers offerings at Salford's ninth annual DIY all-dayer, Sounds from the Other City Read more »| 14 May 2013 -
MusicSummit Special: An Interview with Stephen Pastel
With a new album imminent, we chat to Stephen McRobbie of The Pastels about the record’s long history, and the band’s future Read more »| 14 May 2013 -
Music
Deafheaven / The Secret / No Island @ Ivory Blacks, 7 May
No Island's simplistic approach to aggressive music is at odds with the heavily textured nature of our headliners, but these local noisemakers aren't fazed; ... Read more »| 13 May 2013