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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ArtInternet Curtains @ Tramway
There’s an absence of straightforward flatness that comes up across the works in Internet Curtains. Iain Hetherington’s depiction of a Commonweal... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Film
Life through a Lens: Film Studies 101
Are you an incredibly lazy film student? If so, get the gist of the whole of film history by watching the quintessential movies from each decade of cinema's short existence Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
BooksLanguage, Live! Spoken Word and Poetry in the Northwest
Budding poet, writer or performer? Grab the bull by the horns – or, er, your audience by the... imagination – and test your material onstage at a variety of vibrant spoken word nights Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Film
A Dangerous Game
In Anthony Baxter’s 2011 documentary You’ve Been Trumped, a group of residents of Aberdeenshire opposed Donald Trump and his attempts to transfor... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
FilmBack in the Habit: Pawel Pawlikowski on Ida
Ida marks Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski's return to his home nation and his return to form. The My Summer of Love director speaks to us about Ida's surprise success and how making it allowed him to escape the boredom of cinema Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Film
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman's films are the purest examples of documentary filmmaking that it's possible to find. There are no onscreen captions in his films, no music... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014
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ClubsThe Last Big Weekend: Sunday, 31 August
Any committed drinkers with a two day ticket for the Last Big Weekend may well have decided to stay away today – such was the anger over bar queues dur... Read more »| 05 Sep 2014 -
MusicThe Last Big Weekend: Saturday, 30 August
It’s been a summer like no other in Glasgow. In July the city was transformed for what’s being widely recognised as being the most successfu... Read more »| 05 Sep 2014 -
Film
Bad Neighbours
What do you do if the neighbours won’t keep the noise down? New parents Mac (Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Byrne) are faced with this problem in Nicholas St... Read more »| 05 Sep 2014 -
Film
Till Death Do Us Part: An interview with Harry Treadaway
This month sees the release of matrimonial chiller Honeymoon, in which a young couple’s lakeside getaway takes a turn for the worse. Star Harry Treadaway tells us why he keeps coming back to the horror genre Read more »| 05 Sep 2014 -
Books
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Already hailed as a classic of the genre, H is for Hawk is a rich blend of memoir, biography and natural history. Broken by the grief of her father’s d... Read more »| 04 Sep 2014 -
Clubs
Fishing in Slower Territories: Rainer Trüby wades through "slouse"
Rainer Trüby began his DJ career as the host of tea parties at a local old folks' home, occasionally dropping orchestral versions of the theme tune from Shaft Read more »| 04 Sep 2014 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Steve O'Sullivan
After a long-awaited return to the techno fold, the Mosaic boss assembles eight slabs that define his craft Read more »| 04 Sep 2014 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights - September 2014
Studentdom returns this month, bringing with it a heap of promoters vying for a slice of that well-earned loan – just don’t spunk it all on traffic light parties Read more »| 04 Sep 2014 -
Film
The Guest
Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett turn their gaze on the creepy stranger sub-genre after deconstructing the slasher movie in last year’s Y... Read more »| 04 Sep 2014