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 Intern
Audiences are so used to Robert De Niro mortgaging off his reputation that his appearances in predictable fluff like The Intern no longer seem quite so unpal... Read more »| 30 Sep 2015 -
ComedyScott Gibson: Comedy Spotlight
Scott Gibson considers the pros and cons involved in having his consciousness uploaded to a computer. Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Turner Prize, Naked Aye
Across Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow this week are a diverse bunch of art events, including the launch of a new gallery space in Glasgow and the first of a series of Turner Prize workshops Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
MusicKodiak Deathbeds – Kodiak Deathbeds
Summer might be over for another year, but thankfully Kodiak Deathbeds have arrived with their self-titled debut album which sounds ripe for soundtracking th... Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
Film
Turbo Kid
An affectionately schlocky homage to bottom-shelf 80s genre flicks, Turbo Kid goes all out on the nostalgia front, packing View-Masters, Rubik’s Cubes ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
Books
Poetry News - Scotland, October 2015
Liz Lochhead and Phill Jupitus at Wigtown Book Festival, plus Dundee Literary Festival and more. Read more »| 29 Sep 2015
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Music
U.S. Girls – Half Free
Half Free sees Meghan Remy’s project U.S. Girls return with its third album, and her first for the eternally eminent 4AD label. Although interesting in... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
FilmNight and the City
Few films are as drenched in fear, anger and desperation as Night and the City. It was Jules Dassin’s first film in exile from America after being blac... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
Film
Results
If Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess was his most defiantly uncommercial film to date, Results initially seems like the first time this filmmaker has co... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
Film
In Praise of Seconds
It’s taken a long time for John Frankenheimer’s film to be appreciated as the modern masterpiece it is. Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
Theatre
Simon Armitage on The Odyssey, Liverpool Everyman
Following last year's Lily Cole-starring dramatisation of The Iliad, Simon Armitage now turns his hand to Homer's other great work. We caught up with the poet to discuss The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead, which premieres at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre Read more »| 25 Sep 2015 -
Music
Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 1983-85
There's a quote in Alan McGee's 2013 autobiography that neatly sums up the Creation Records ethos. Discussing his own mid-80s band, Biff Bang Pow!, he laughs... Read more »| 25 Sep 2015 -
Music
Track premiere: VASA – 'Poseidon's Kiss'
After a few years of honing their skills on the live circuit (most recently at Bristol's excellent ArcTanGent festival), prolific Glasgow post-rockers VASA o... Read more »| 25 Sep 2015 -
Music
Premiere: A Mote of Dust – Home (Mogwai remix)
Listen to Dominic Aitchison of Mogwai's remix of Home by A Mote of Dust, the new project from Craig Beaton of Aereogramme and The Unwinding Hours. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015 -
Comedy
Kevin Bridges @ SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 21 September
Kevin Bridges is the modern day patron saint of Glasgow; a natural entertainer and marvellous storyteller. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015