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 Choice to See: Salvo
Salvo co-director Antonio Piazza waxes lyrical about the meaning and mysteries behind his thoughtful debut Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Based on the bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man – let’s call it that for short – chronicles the fanciful escapa... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears
This bastard child of Argento and Dali had audience members streaming out of its Toronto festival screening, as those expecting something comparable to Berbe... Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
FilmThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Driver
Steven Knight's Locke represents an 'anti-genre' of films that uses just one figure to explore the human condition Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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1939 Continued
We look beyond the Best Picture Oscar nominees that make up GFF's ace Hooray for Hollywood strand and pick some of the other gems from 1939 Read more »| 23 Feb 2014 -
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The Dance of Reality
For a man with a huge cult following and clear influence on many filmmakers, the Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky has actually made very few film... Read more »| 22 Feb 2014
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20 Feet from Stardom
Morgan Neville has roped in an impressive rostrum of superstars as talking heads for this lively music doc – Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Won... Read more »| 22 Feb 2014 -
FilmJia Zhangke: Tales of Truth in Modern China
Jia Zhangke's films all comment on the state of modern China; his latest, A Touch of Sin, could be the most controversial yet Read more »| 22 Feb 2014 -
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Film News: Spongebob Squarepants vs. Watchmen, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, X-Men and more
A round-up of Film News, including a hilarious Spongebob Squarepants / Watchmen mashup, commentary on Interstellar from Matthe McConnaughey and the new X-Men film from Bryan Singer, plus the latest casting rumours and trailers Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
Music
Cloud Sounds #6: BDY_PRTS, Broken Records, Honeyblood, and more
A weekly playlist curated by The Skinny, this week featuring Edinburgh's Broken Records, Glasgow's Honeyblood, the lead cut from BDY_PRTS' debut EP, plus tracks from Inkke, Thee Oh Sees, Brody Dalle, Flatbush Zombies and others Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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The Lön Rängers – Jessica Oreck on Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboys
Jessica Oreck discusses her unique experience making Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboys Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
FilmBlue Ruin
Blue Ruin is a revenge film filled with enough unpredictability to keep your attention and violence that serves the story rather than being gratuitous &ndash... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
The Aatsinki brothers, Aarne and Lasse are men of very few words, but even if they were to wax lyrical about their lives as reindeer herders (”poromies... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Salvo
Cutting a scene a little long can render it dull; somehow, elongating it further leads to intrigue. So what of Salvo, a Sicilian hitman tale, which stretches... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014 -
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Pharoahe Monch, The Kazimier, Liverpool, 19 Feb
Swaggering onstage, bottle of whisky in hand, Pharoahe Monch embraces a room of party revellers and launches into Damage, the lead from his upcoming PTSD (Po... Read more »| 21 Feb 2014