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 Tunnel
Made in 2001, The Tunnel's long-delayed release in Britain – and its origins as a television movie – is no indication of its quality. Inspired by... Read more »| 18 Apr 2011 -
ComedyTim Minchin and His Orchestra @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 17 April
Tim Minchin’s opening number is spectacular. There are flashing lights, there’s a full orchestra blasting, and Minchin is singing. But it’s... Read more »| 18 Apr 2011 -
Comedy
Sean Hughes: "Comedy should be emotional"
Around about the time Sean Hughes become the youngest winner of the Perrier award, people started referring to comedy as ‘The new rock’n’roll’. Comedy was bright and snappy and the only artform left with any real integrity Read more »| 15 Apr 2011 -
Film
Red Riding Hood
The critical reception from the US may be scary enough to keep filmgoers out of the big, dark multiplex this month as Red Riding Hood hits our screens. This ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2011 -
Music
James Blake: "The nature of dubstep is one of progression"
2011's great white hype James Blake on keeping his family life private, and why his debut LP was definitely not dubstep Read more »| 13 Apr 2011 -
Music
Glasvegas: Out of Exile
Returning from the wilderness with album number two this month, Glasvegas frontman James Allan reveals the reasons for the band's retreat Read more »| 13 Apr 2011
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TheatreBlackout
Ready for something intense? Lights out, lets go. James, fifteen, wakes up in a jail cell charged with attempted murder. He has no recollection of wh... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
MusicAsobi Seksu – Fluorescence
It may seem a trite observation applicable to any band, but Asobi Seksu are at their best when they sound like themselves. Often, the Seksu listening experie... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
Art
Manfred Pernice @ DCA
There’s a freestanding structure in the middle of the DCA’s main gallery. Rather crudely assembled from chipboard, each of its quadrants is a dif... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
FilmYour Highness
It’s a shame that boys will be boys, because it’s the relentless stream of smutty schoolboy jokes that threaten to spoil what’s actually a ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
Music
Kode9 & The Spaceape: Under the Black Sun
Five years on from their landmark debut, Kode 9 and The Spaceape return to reinvent bass music once more with the epic follow-up, Black Sun. Welcome to their world... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Music
Nick Hudson and the Academy of Sun – My Antique Son
Nick Hudson’s audial explorations over the past few years have garnered him an impressive collection of admirers, from Meredith Monk to Current 93&rsqu... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Film
Blood Simple
In this re-make of the Coen brothers' tourniquet-tight thriller about what happens to best laid plans, sweaty Texas is swapped for the scorched deserts of an... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Film
Little White Lies
Guillaume Canet’s follow-up to Tell No One is a change of pace, from intense thriller to ensemble comedy-drama, but it's no less compelling. Starring F... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Music
Adam Goldberg, Dilettante?
dil·et·tante?/?dili?tänt/ –noun 1. a person who studies an art or subject merely for amusement; dabbler. 2. a lover of an art or science. 3. Adam Goldberg? Read more »| 08 Apr 2011