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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FilmAir Doll
A Japanese salaryman returns to his ramshackle apartment every night to the welcoming, if chilly, embrace of his inflatable sex doll, with whom he has an elaborate domestic routine. Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
FilmSeven Psychopaths
The fact that the central character in Seven Psychopaths is an Irish writer named Marty should suggest the kind of film we're dealing with here. McDonagh's s... Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
Music
The Albums of 2012 (#10): Matthew Dear – Beams (Ghostly International)
Matthew Dear's Beams spearheaded the 2012 trend that saw electronic producers embracing classic songwriting and pop music tropes - but what has he got planned for next year? Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
MusicLast Shop Standing: The State Of Independents
The humble record shop has had a tough time of it these past few years. But when author Graham Jones and director Pip Piper began to document the current landscape for their Last Shop Standing project, they found heartening signs of recovery Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – December 2012
This month's live music highlights, including an unmissable show with The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks and Holy Mountain, and plenty more highlights from the likes oof Beth Orton, Gary Numan and Malcolm Middleton Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Film
Gremlins
On a sales call to a gloomy Chinatown cliché emporium, Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) obtains a mogwai, a wittering Furby/shih-tzu hybrid as Christmas g... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012
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FilmChristmas Slay: Joe Dante on Gremlins
With the high street a cacophony of Jingle Bells covers and TV a vomit of Xmas specials, this month's re-release of Gremlins offers 100 minutes of anarchic respite from the insanity of the season. The Skinny spoke to its director, Joe Dante Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 4 December
Today's Bulletin features some analysis of the Creative Scotland scandal in the wake of Chief Executive Andrew Dixon's departure, plus: T-in-the-Park headliners announced, Elizabeth Price bags the Turner Prize, and new music by Mark Lanegan and Whomadewho Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
BooksGold Digger by Francis Fyfield
An answer to the quiz question ‘crime novels with the same title as Kanye West songs,' but otherwise this is a solid but not very memorable story. Curi... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Books
Blood of Crows by Caro Ramsay
This is now the fourth of Caro Ramsay’s series following DI Colin Anderson and his colleagues, most prominently DS Costello, whose first name isn&rsquo... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Books
Top Gear: The Cool 500 by Matt Master
Subtitled ‘The Coolest Cars Ever Made’, this is a large format book about cars through history, glossy photos and all. Some people love Top Gear,... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Books
Fremont by Elizabeth Reeder
Fremont is the debut book from Kohl Publishing that they’ve been publicising gradually for a while now. It was maybe a risk to do that, but this book p... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Music
Christ. @ Pivo Pivo, 25 November
On record, one of the most engaging things about Christ. is his masterful keyboard playing. His extended, hypnotic improvised synth lines and spiralling, int... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Music
The Metal Column – December 2012
It's no lie: December's a tough one. Record releases begin to slow down, and a lot of touring bands tend to slip into hibernation. You're going to need som... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012 -
Music
Dam Mantle – Brothers Fowl
Following a slew of well-received EPs for labels like Get Me and his own Growing label, Glasgow-based Dam Mantle returns with an eight-track mini-album tha... Read more »| 04 Dec 2012