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 Godfather Trilogy
It’s unlikely that’s there’s much to be added to the critical evaluation of the Godfather trilogy: two of the greatest films ever made plus... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
FilmDirty Harry Complete Special Edition Collection
Clint Eastwood returned to America after his Italian westerns and went from star to superstar in 1971 with his first outing as the borderline psychotic San F... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
FilmIntimate Enemies
The Algerian war of independence is the setting for this episodic ‘soldier’s story’ drama, which follows the fates of an idealistic lieuten... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Film
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Joseph Sargent’s 1970 computer-gone-amok thriller bears all the hallmarks of vintage seventies sci-fi. Cold War paranoia, white polyes... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Film
The Andrzej Wajda War Trilogy
Bringing together three seminal early works from Andrzej Wajda, father figure of Polish cinema, this loosely connected ‘War Trilogy’ chronicles t... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Theatre
Reality @ Tron Theatre
Martin O'Connor straddles comedy and performance art. Read more »| 16 Jun 2008
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TheatreHere Now There Now
Dance can move outside theatres to devastating effect: The Skinny looks for movement out of the train window Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Film
Tick Tock Lullaby
There’s a scene in Will and Grace where Jack says the "great unspoken gay secret" is that most gay movies are dreadful. Sadly, Tick Tock Lullaby does... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Music
V/A - Recon-naissance: The Live Sessions
In Recon-naissance's compilation, there's a plethora of semi-familiar local acts, from that mad samba band you heard at The Wickerman, to that sultry French ... Read more »| 15 Jun 2008 -
Music
Laymar - In Strange Lines And Distances
Ambient instrumental post-rock debut Read more »| 14 Jun 2008 -
Theatre
The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown
Music, cinema and choreography collide in the afterlife of a classic German horror. Read more »| 14 Jun 2008 -
Music
Down with Dillinger: One Night of Escape
Jamie Borthwick battles through carnage, chaos and a crate of Irn Bru, all par for the course during an evening spent in the company of math metal monoliths Dillinger Escape Plan Read more »| 13 Jun 2008 -
Music
Various Artists - Karen P...Broadcasting
Karen P was once an apprentice of Gilles Peterson, and her style has marked similarities, but does not reach quite as far around the globe. Having said that,... Read more »| 13 Jun 2008 -
Music
Argy - Focus on Argy
Poker Flat has, over the past while, established itself as one of the true homes of accessible minimal tech, alongside the likes of Get Physical and Co. They... Read more »| 13 Jun 2008 -
Music
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
The Jews’ most accessible effort to date Read more »| 11 Jun 2008