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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FilmNeighbouring Sounds
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s mesmerising and mysterious debut centres on a modern apartment complex in Recife, Brazil, and concerns several residents... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
Art
Jennifer Moon @ Transmission, until 27 Apr
Unlike her domineering portrait suggests, Jennifer Moon is mild, almost apologetic, in person. As she explains her theories on the unifying potential of love... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
FilmBoxing Day
Time and technology have moved on since Bernard Rose made Ivansxtc, the first of his loose, contemporary adaptations of Tolstoy stories starri... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
Music
Tenement Trail, Glasgow, 9 March
Tenement Trail, Glasgow, 9 March A BIT OF THE ACTION FROM TENEMENT TV'S ALL-DAY FESTIVAL IN GLASGOW Photography by Beth Chalmers & Jassy Earl Read more »| 15 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 15 March
Watch Harmony Korine and Die Antwoord's bizarre short film; Death Grips and WHY? for ATP; Twitter acquires music app; new tracks from The Bug, Her Parents and The Lonely Together; remix Squarepusher; plus Game of Thrones, 1995 style Read more »| 15 Mar 2013 -
FilmThe Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Steve Carell is Burt Wonderstone, a David Copperfield-esque Vegas illusionist whose career and “magical friendship” with partner Anton (Stev... Read more »| 14 Mar 2013
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FilmKen Loach: "We need a new party of the left"
The UK's great socialist filmmaker speaks to us about his latest call to arms, The Spirit of '45 – a potent reminder that it was collectivism, not capitalism, that lifted Britain out of poverty after the Second World War Read more »| 14 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 13 March
EIF 2013 programme unveiled; Trainspotting 2 confirmed; support School of Seven Bells' Ben Curtis; new music from Dillinger Escape Plan, Earl Sweatshirt, Bigg Taj and Wavves; Iron Maiden make beer; A Tribe Called Quest plan UK comeback... Read more »| 13 Mar 2013 -
Music
Lapalux in interview: Brainfeeder's latest prodigy talks his psychedelic debut
As he prepares to drop his debut album Nostalchic on Brainfeeder, Stuart Howard aka Lapalux talks to us about memory, tape hiss and the emotions buried in his music Read more »| 13 Mar 2013 -
Books
StAnza International Poetry Festival, St Andrews
StAnza poetry festival director Eleanor Livingstone tells us what attendees can expect this year, what not to miss, and how the recent closure of The Byre Theatre has impacted the programme Read more »| 12 Mar 2013 -
Music
Tartufi – These Factory Days
San Francisco trio Tartufi's penchant for lush sonic textures and gentle guitar picking shines through in every track of their sixth full-length. As such, it... Read more »| 12 Mar 2013 -
Music
Heterotic – Love & Devotion (ft. Gravenhurst)
A collaboration between Mu boss Mike Paradinas and his wife Lara Rix-Martin, Heterotic's instrumental tracks on their debut mini-album range from sublime, ba... Read more »| 12 Mar 2013 -
Music
Rungs – I Don't Wanna Hug! I Just Wanna Cum!
This new band formed by the remaining members of Take a Worm For a Walk Week (and fronted by Project: Venhell vocalist Hines) will be instantly familiar to o... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 11 March
Public Enemy celebrate 25th anniversary with deluxe vinyl box set; Soul Jazz prepare Chicago Acid House compilation; new Modeselektor documentary; music from The Knife, John Parish, James Blake, Monoganon, plus Clint Mansell remixes The Fauns Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
FilmAction Cinema Comes to Albion: Eran Creevy on Welcome to the Punch
Michael Mann and John Woo provide the prime influences for Shifty director Eran Creevy's breathless new film Welcome to the Punch. We spoke to the director ahead of its UK première at Glasgow Film Festival 2013 Read more »| 11 Mar 2013