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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FilmOut of the Past: Guy Maddin on Keyhole
Guy Maddin's latest film, Keyhole, is a psycho-sexual riff on Homer's The Odyssey by way of film noir and haunted house movies. The Skinny spoke to this most unique of filmmakers Read more »| 04 Sep 2012 -
MusicJim Noir – Jimmy's Show
As he approaches 30, Mancunian psych-popper Jim Noir shows no sign of relinquishing his child’s eye view of the world. Lyrically, third album Jimm... Read more »| 04 Sep 2012 -
Film
The Aggression Scale
Didn't you sometimes wish when you watched Home Alone that Macaulay Culkin would get a little more psycho? Make the burglars really suffer? Make them bleed? ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
MusicGrandaddy @ O2 ABC, 30 August
Six years ago, Grandaddy were collapsed and futureless. By the time final album Just Like the Fambly Cat appeared, the members had already parted company, l... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
MusicGrimes @ The Arches, 29 August
Opening a three-act bill before 8pm is always a challenge, but Grimes’ fellow Montrealers Majical Cloudz captivate from the outset. The duo&r... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Music
The Helio Sequence – Negotiations
Much of The Helio Sequence’s fifth album was reportedly born from improvisation, with many songs beginning life as one-minute sketches, and others fo... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012
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Music
Minus the Bear – Infinity Overhead
Over the course of a career, it’s not unusual for a band to shed its musical skin several times. Yet, in their eleven years as a band, Seattle outfit... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Music
The Good Ship Yeasayer
As Brooklyn's Yeasayer look forward to their cruise ship bow, Ira Wolf Tuton takes a walk down memory lane Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Music
Adrian Crowley – I See Three Birds Flying
“And I tried to write the saddest song in the world,” croons Adrian Crowley on the second track of his excellent sixth album. The majestic burst ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Film
Genre Hopper: Rian Johnson on Looper
Three movies under his belt and Rian Johnson is proving a tricky filmmaker to pin down. The Skinny caught up with the genre hopping director to get the lowdown on his latest film, Looper, which opens this year's Toronto International Film Festival Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Film
Shooters
The antithesis of the all too common ‘balletic’ form of cinema violence, Dan Reed’s 2001 feature Shooters is a raw slice of brutality set i... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Music
Gallows – Gallows
Instead of flickering out after the departure of intimidating frontman Frank Carter, Watford-based hardcore punks Gallows have decided to soldier on with the... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Music
Oneohtrix Point Never / Rene Hell – Music For Reliquary House / In 1980 I Was A Blue Square
OPN's Music For Reliquary House finds Dan Lopatin revisiting the experimental modes of 2011's Replica but toning down that album's sense of rhythm and melody... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Music
Band of Horses – Mirage Rock
Since relocating from Seattle to the American Midwest to record 2007’s joyous Cease to Begin, Band of Horses' song craft has come to reflect the sexte... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Film
War Trilogy
Aleksandr Dovshenko may not carry the same name recognition as contemporaries like Sergei Eisenstein or Dziga Vertov, but eighty years on his best work remai... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012