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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FilmThe Heat
Bridesmaids definitively proved for the umpteenth time to a sexist Hollywood that, yes, women can be funny, and yes, they can be funny without the film desce... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
FilmGaslight
Upon acquiring the rights to Patrick Hamilton’s play Gas Light, MGM set about wiping the slate in preparation for their George Cukor-directed, Ingrid B... Read more »| 18 Nov 2013 -
Theatre
Sonica 2013 @ Various Venues, Glasgow
Sonica, the festival of sonic art produced by Cryptic, returns to Glasgow for yet another year. The programme, while based primarily on the concept of sound ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 15 November
We've launched a video channel; new music from Death Grips, Run The Jewels, Stephen Malkmus, David Lynch, Sweethead and more; DARKSIDE in the Boiler Room; GWAR get their own cartoon; plus the latest trailers Read more »| 15 Nov 2013 -
ClubsBlurring the Boundaries: DJ John Heckle in interview
With new album Desolate Figures, John Heckle confidently flaunts the perceived limits of house and techno. Ahead of the release, he talks us through his creative process Read more »| 15 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 15 November
The Big Apple Award 2013 for emerging Scottish bands announced; Baby Boomers vs. Generation Y – the debate continues; audition for Star Wars VII; Paul McGann returns as Doctor Who; a trip to Mars; plus the latest Festival News Read more »| 15 Nov 2013
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Film
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Is the Warmest Colour made history at Cannes this year when its leads, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, shared the Palme d'Or with dir... Read more »| 15 Nov 2013 -
Music
Mount Kimbie / oOoOO @ SWG3, 8 November
Californian producer oOoOO took some bold risks on his debut album Without Your Love, contributing vocals to his own tracks for the first time, alongside col... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
Film
In Fear
A selection of great British fears – narrow country roads at night, passive-aggression from strangers, and the spilling of a man’s pint – f... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
Music
MONEY @ The Dancehouse, Manchester, 9 November
The last time this reviewer saw MONEY play it was in an unusual venue – the centuries-old, borderline dilapidated Platt Chapel in Fallowfield &nda... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
Music
Death Grips drop new album Government Plates
Death Grips, the visionary, transgressive hip-hop group consisting of MC Ride, Flatlander and Zach Hill, today release another album via their Thirdworlds si... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
ArtBedwyr Williams @ Welsh Pavilion, Venice Biennale
There’s something eccentrically humungous about the garden observatory cum shed that's been ceremoniously dropped into a small Venetian chapel by W... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
Theatre
In Doggerland @ The Lowry, Salford
In Doggerland is a story of family, grief and human nature. More specifically, it’s the story of what happens when siblings Linus and Marnie turn up in... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
Film
Of Good Report
Here is the film to put director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka on the map, partly due to its controversy (it was banned in its native South Africa and reinstated in a m... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
Music
A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy
Mainstay of the resurgent Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell meditates on resurrection, organised religion and the trouble with social media... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013