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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ArtEva Hesse @ Fruitmarket
Fruitmarket’s contribution to the EAF programme promises, as ever, to be one of the most subtly challenging of the festival. In conjunction with a majo... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
ArtJane and Louise Wilson @ Talbot Rice
During the Edinburgh Art Festival, Talbot Rice Gallery will be showing the work of London based video artists Jane and Louise Wilson. The exhibition will dra... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
MusicDoves Of Disorder - Doves of Disorder EP
Whether unwittingly or not, Doves of Disorder have thrust themselves into the space recently vacated by Sleater-Kinney, albeit in a less-affected and unfortu... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Theatre
High Quality Tease
Gareth K Vile sees an Edinburgh favourite triumph in Glasgow Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Music
Nneka - No Longer At Ease
Nneka is a one-woman melting pot, the product of a Nigerian upbringing and a German university education, but her music is where the real dizzying mix is fou... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
FilmThe Damned United
Cloughie might have been a more appropriate title for this “adaptation” of David Peace’s baleful take on the arrogant but charismatic Brian... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009
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Film
Slacker Uprising
Slacker Uprising documents Michael Moore’s tour of key battleground states during 2004’s US elections, his intention to get America’s young... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Film
Oasis
Just released from prison for manslaughter, socially inept outcast Jong-du (Kyung-gu Sol) finds himself falling in love with the seriously disabled daughter ... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Film
High Heels
High Heels is a film about women: conventional, criminal, matriarchal, murderous, loved, loathed, and impersonated. More specifically, it’s about the p... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Film
Cradle Will Fall
From Medea to tabloid headlines, stories of mothers who murder their children have always fascinated and revolted us. Cradle Will Fall, supposedly based on r... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
FilmFrozen River
As if Academy nominations for best screenplay and best actress weren’t enough, a film described by Quentin Tarantino as one of the best thrillers of th... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Art
Bob & Roberta Smith @ The Grey Gallery
Andrew Cattanach speaks to Bob and Roberta Smith about his forthcoming exhibition at The Grey Gallery, Edinburgh Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Theatre
High Tease
Burlesque as it was and as it is meant to be. Read more »| 19 Jul 2009 -
Music
Asa Ransom - An Asa Ransom Release
Relocating to New York must have been a no-brainer for Asa Ransom, hailing as they do from Marion, Indiana, whose only recent(ish) claim to fame has been hos... Read more »| 17 Jul 2009 -
Music
Sons of Noel and Adrian - Rivers EP
So perfectly crafted are the three songs on this limited EP that it is hard to believe it was recorded by twelve people. While other modern ‘folk&rsquo... Read more »| 17 Jul 2009