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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FilmBlack Pond
Watching dream sequences is often like listening to someone telling you about their dream: nonsensical, dull and pointless. Black Pond, a low budget feature ... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
Books
I'm Never Coming Back by Julian Hanshaw
The genesis of Julian Hanshaw's latest graphic novel I'm Never Coming Back began with Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms, the 2008 winner of The Observer/C... Read more »| 07 May 2012 -
Film
Crime or Punishment?!?
Take heed of the title’s interrobang: Crime or Punishment?!? is a bewildering creation. In a similar vein to circular, multi-strand narratives like Go ... Read more »| 07 May 2012 -
Comedy
Vive la Republique: Bruce Morton declares independence
An end to West End oppression is in sight as a comic revolution is declared in Glasgow Read more »| 04 May 2012 -
Film
Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society
A cyber-enhanced anti-terrorist group tracking down a network of lunatics in futuristic Japan sounds appealing, but this second animated sequel to the TV ser... Read more »| 04 May 2012 -
Music
First listen: PAWS – Misled Youth
Glasgow pop-punk three-piece PAWS are heading down to Brighton's Great Escape Festival this month to play the Scottish Showcase stage alongside Adm... Read more »| 03 May 2012
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ArtShowcase Shop – Artist Profiles
In December 2011, in the Creative Scotland offices in Edinburgh's Waverley Gate, The Skinny launched the first collection of its Showcase Shop, a collaborati... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – May 2012
With his two bandmates otherwise engaged, the gargantuan responsibility of reviewing the month’s singles rests squarely on the shoulders of Phillip from Glasgow trio PAWS. Can he withstand the terrible auto-tuned RnB vocals? Will the CDs actually work? Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Music
Will Dutta – Parergon
Though the majority of Parergon is centred on the piano, subtle droning electronic frequencies, echo effects and even schizophrenic Venetian Snares-style... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Film
Summer Preview: Blockbusters v Art-house
We preview a summer of films, pitting the art-house against the event movie using a scientifically proven top trumps system that rates director kudos, fan anticipation, funniness, sexiness and that quintessential summer movie ingredient, explodiness Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Film
Lucky Luke
Though he’s been gun-slinging since the forties, comic-strip cowboy Lucky Luke’s golden age came under the auspices of Asterix creator René... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
BooksMarch Was Made of Yarn by Various
On March 11 2011, Japan’s north-east coast was hit by a massive earthquake, followed minutes later by a fifty-foot tsunami. The subsequent meltdown at ... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
BooksThe Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Anais Hendricks is a fifteen year old orphan who is taken to the Panopticion, a home for chronic young offenders, after she is suspected of putting a policew... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Death Grips: “There's a lot of recycling and destruction in the making of our music”
A full-frontal assault on the musical culture of 2012, Death Grips might just be the most important band to arrive so far this century. Zach Hill discusses raw reality, release and borrowing Simon Cowell's printer Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Theatre
The Captain’s Collection
With its evocative Celtic strains and poetic prose, the opening scenes from Dogstar’s revival of their first production, The Captain’s Colle... Read more »| 02 May 2012