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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FilmYoung Adult
Young Adult is the second collaboration between the creative team behind Juno, and it again displays both their strengths and their weaknesses. Jason Reitman... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
Film
The Descendants
Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) directs his first film in seven years with this charming comedy. Matt King (Clooney), trustee to his extended family's v... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
FilmYouth in Revolt – Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012
Looking at the programme for GFF 2012 you'd be forgiven for thinking that festivities begin 16 Feb with opening gala Your Sister's Sister, but you'd be wrong. Overlook the cinematic delights of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival at your peril Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
Music
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Excepting its first and final tracks (a dated-sounding industrial take on Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song featuring Karen O, and a tough, icy interpretation ... Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
FilmJ. Edgar
Few public figures have remained as enigmatic and elusive as J. Edgar Hoover, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that Clint Eastwood's sluggish biopic fail... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
MusicMachinedrum – SXLND EP
Travis Stewart has made a conspicuous habit of excellence in the last year. In Room(s) and Sepalcure (his project with Praveen Sharma, aka Braille), 2011 had... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012
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Theatre
The Shoogle Project
Step in time, out of time - just dance! Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
MusicCymbals Eat Guitars / Milagres @ ABC2, 8 January
Conjuring enthusiasm among a disappointingly thin crowd, on a Sunday night in early January, is a test for any band, and New York’s Milagres are too me... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Film
Steven Spielberg on War Horse: "This is the first fully British film I've ever made”
After the Leicester Square UK premiere of War Horse, its director, the legendary Steven Spielberg, sat down with the press to discuss his inspiration for this equine opus Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Film
The Burma Conspiracy
The Burma Conspiracy is the second film based on Belgian comic series Largo Winch. It features a Bosnian hero who lives in Switzerland, has more European co-... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Film
Haywire
Haywire is the kind of lucid thriller Paul Greengrass might make if he ever invested in a tripod. Breakneck action with graceful, but nasty, fight sequences ... Read more »| 12 Jan 2012 -
Music
Roots Manuva Music Playlist: Guest Selector
Maverick MC Rodney 'Roots Manuva' Smith lifts the lid on his desert island discs Read more »| 12 Jan 2012 -
Music
2012: Scoring the End Times
Don't stress about whether the Mayan Prophecy will come to pass this year, think more about who might accidentally soundtrack the end of days... Read more »| 11 Jan 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: January Horoscopes
ARIESAfter going off the rails at New Year and thereafter orbiting through a belt of her own sick astronomers discover Venus is pregnant with another planet.... Read more »| 11 Jan 2012 -
Film
Punishment Park
Through a combination of radical politics and formal experimentation British director Peter Watkins has pushed the limits of the docudrama since the 1960s. A... Read more »| 11 Jan 2012