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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FilmCinéma Rosé: Kim Longinotto
We speak to award winning filmmaker Kim Longinotto about her latest documentary, Pink Saris Read more »| 13 Sep 2011 -
BooksHot off the Comics Press: First Issues
New titles and old heroes Read more »| 12 Sep 2011 -
FilmSteampunk Horror: An Interview with Leigh Whannell and James Wan
Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell swap grisly torture porn for chilling horror in their latest collaboration Insidious Read more »| 12 Sep 2011 -
Music
Årabrot – Solar Anus
While Georges Bataille may have defined the Solar Anus in the unifying language of sexual imagery, Årabrot have further developed it into this, a pseud... Read more »| 12 Sep 2011 -
Film
Friends with Benefits
All the usual ingredients are here – boy meets girl; one emotionally unavailable, the other emotionally damaged – in a tale of modern friendship ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011 -
Music
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins @ Grand Ole Opry, 7 September
It's the evening after the night before; you’d never guess by looking at them that Fife’s favourite troubadour King Creosote, or his ivory-twinkl... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011
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FilmPost Mortem
In Tony Manero, a Chilean dancer’s quest to build an illuminated dance-floor was studded with acts of shockingly abrupt violence, to blackly comic and ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011 -
Film
Colombiana
Writer/producer Luc Besson returns to familiar super-assassin territory with Colombiana, and it may be time he left the genre well alone. After witnessing th... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011 -
Music
Public Enemy at O2 ABC, 6 Sep
Some images from the Public Enemy gig at the O2 ABC on Tuesday 6th September 2011. Photography from Euan Robertson Read more »| 08 Sep 2011 -
Music
Public Enemy @ O2 ABC, 6 September
Billed as a run-through of the classic Fear of a Black Planet album, tonight's show clings loosely to the promised narrative whilst delving into a rag-bag ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2011 -
Books
Turf by Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards
Turf is Jonathan Ross’s debut as writer of a comic series, and this collection of the first five issues, which form a complete story, is a winn... Read more »| 08 Sep 2011 -
Music
Boom Bip – Zig Zaj
In recent years, producer Bryan 'Boom Bip' Hollon has shown a desire to connect the dots between his electro-purist roots and the hippest realms of the indie... Read more »| 07 Sep 2011 -
Music
The Shivers – More
Somehow, it’s taken five self-released albums for someone in the UK to prick up their ears and sign New York’s The Shivers. Johnny Lynch (aka The... Read more »| 07 Sep 2011 -
Music
Farewell Poetry – Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite
Oh Farewell Poetry, shall I compare thee to a Godspeed echo? Well, yes – you make it pretty difficult not to, with your serious atmosphere and evocativ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2011 -
Music
iconAclass – For The Ones
Even the most devoted fan of Dälek must admit that rapper Will Brooks’s vocals often get drowned out by the industrial haze more than their eloque... Read more »| 07 Sep 2011