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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MusicSkaters – Manhattan
Ignore the shuffle of primitive syn-drums that raise the curtain here. They’re little more than a flutter of false promise, swiftly giving way to the S... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
MusicReal Estate – Atlas
Last album Days seemed to unexpectedly catapult Ridgewood, New Jersey natives Real Estate to the top table of American indie. Atlas largely follows a similar... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Film
At Home in The Dark: FrightFest at GFF14
The festival might be in its closing days, but this year's FrightFest line-up shows the thrills are far from over Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
FilmThe Zero Theorem
In the vein of Spike Jonze’s Her, Terry Gilliam’s latest sci-fi, like all the best films in that genre, puts humanity under a microscope lens and... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Film
The Phantom Movie: Roger Christian on Black Angel
Black Angel has remained a fuzzy memory in the heads of those who saw it with The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. Tonight, Roger Christian presents the film at GFF14 Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Film
Love Is Not What It Used to Be (El amor no es lo que era)
In one Spanish city, three couples of varying ages undergo differing experiences of modern love: elderly former lovers meet again after years apart, a middle... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014
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Film
We Are Analogue: Chris Petit on post-cinema and the Museum of Loneliness
Writer, director and artist, Chris Petit brings his post-cinematic multi-platform project, Museum of Loneliness to GFF14. We catch up with Chris to find out what exactly is post-cinema and what it means for viewers in our post-modern age. Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Film
Under the Skin
Under the Skin, the long awaited cinematic return of Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth), opens with a hallucinatory dance of light and sound, which in turn ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Music
Sudden Death of Stars – All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown
Everything the Sudden Death of Stars do is not so much tinged but teeming with a sepia tone. The Rennes sextet exist in that increasingly inclusive realm of ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Music
Johnny Foreigner – You Can Do Better
Diminishing returns? Nah. Johnny Foreigner may plead ignorance as to why they still haven’t mellowed out by this fourth record, but it’s false mo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Music
Bill Pritchard – A Trip to the Coast
Staffordshire-born songwriter Bill Pritchard has been releasing music intermittently since the eighties, though if the name doesn’t ring bells it&rsquo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
FilmFilm News: Robert Rodriguez talks Sin City sequels; Hugh Jackman on Wolverine, and more
In today's Film News, Robert Rodriquez talks Sin City sequels; Hugh Jackman discusses his return to the role of Wolverine; cult director Don Coscarelli reveals he is still in love with rubber suit monsters, and we look at the latest casting rumours Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Comedy
Comedy Spotlight: Peter Brush
Meet Peter Brush, 'a very serious man' Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Music
We Are Scientists – TV en Francais
The inexplicably titled TV en Français is, supposedly, the fourth studio LP from New York indie buds We Are Scientists (if we ignore 2002’s quir... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014 -
Music
of Montreal @ Gorilla, Manchester, 19 February
The girl whose vocals Kevin Barnes spent years seeking out, Rebecca Cash, sultrily announces him as “My personal lord and saviour” before the of ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2014