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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TheatreUnder Milk Wood @ Tron
The Tron celebrates the launch of the Commonwealth Games with Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood. Directed by Gareth Nicholls, the play unravels a day in t... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
TheatreThe River @ The Briggait
Barrowland Ballet, the Macrobert, and East London Dance present The River, a performance piece that takes its audience on a journey from the Briggait along t... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
Shoot the Pianist
Sandwiched between The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim, François Truffaut's frequently neglected second feature is only marginally less essential tha... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
The LEGO Movie
Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made a name for themselves by transforming dubious prospects for film adaptations (21 and 22 Jump Street; Cloudy with a ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
Labor Day
A change of pace for Jason Reitman, and a near-disastrous one, Labor Day is an earnest attempt to make an old-fashioned romance that can’t take flight ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
Rapture
This curio from 1965 features strong performances from screen greats Melvyn Douglas (Ninotchka) and Dean Stockwell (Paris, Texas), but is carried by 15-year-... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014
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Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – August 2014
From Earth to Converge, it's a fine month to be a cultist Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
FilmJules et Jim
Despite being based on the memories of 74 year old author Henri-Pierre Roché, this iconic account of a doomed love triangle is notable for its rare, y... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
Branded to Kill
The film to earn outlaw master Seijun Suzuki his P45, Branded to Kill is the flawed masterpiece of a misunderstood genius. Asked to follow up his stylised cl... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
FilmDivine Inspiration: Jeffrey Schwarz on I Am Divine
No queer film festival is complete without a sprinkling of Divine. He shows up on cue at this month's POUTfest in John Waters' Hairspray and in Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary I Am Divine. We speak to Schwarz about this larger-than-life icon Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
Theatre
Around the World in Eighty Days @ Royal Exchange Theatre
Any cartoon-addicted child of the eighties will be familiar with Phileas Fogg, the wealthy Victorian about London town who wagers his £20,000 fortune t... Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
Film
We Are the Best!
It’s suburban Sweden, 1982, and punk is dead. Two 13-year-old outsiders, Bobo (Barkhammar) and Klara (Grosin), are feeling the loss more than most. Und... Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
MusicConor Oberst @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 21 July
While angst remains etched through his music like lettering through a stick of rock, a waistcoated and wise-cracking Conor Oberst appears relatively relaxed ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2014 -
Music
The Afghan Whigs @ O2 ABC, 18 July
“I don’t care what age you are, there’s a fuckin’ 16 year old inside,” after 100-odd minutes of sweating and roaring his way th... Read more »| 23 Jul 2014 -
Music
Theo Parrish @ The Art School, 16 July
For a house music virtuoso of Theo Parrish’s stature, this bold leap into the world of live band performance could just as easily end in failure as in ... Read more »| 23 Jul 2014