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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MusicHeterotic – Love & Devotion (ft. Gravenhurst)
A collaboration between Mu boss Mike Paradinas and his wife Lara Rix-Martin, Heterotic's instrumental tracks on their debut mini-album range from sublime, ba... Read more »| 12 Mar 2013 -
MusicRungs – I Don't Wanna Hug! I Just Wanna Cum!
This new band formed by the remaining members of Take a Worm For a Walk Week (and fronted by Project: Venhell vocalist Hines) will be instantly familiar to o... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 11 March
Public Enemy celebrate 25th anniversary with deluxe vinyl box set; Soul Jazz prepare Chicago Acid House compilation; new Modeselektor documentary; music from The Knife, John Parish, James Blake, Monoganon, plus Clint Mansell remixes The Fauns Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Film
Action Cinema Comes to Albion: Eran Creevy on Welcome to the Punch
Michael Mann and John Woo provide the prime influences for Shifty director Eran Creevy's breathless new film Welcome to the Punch. We spoke to the director ahead of its UK première at Glasgow Film Festival 2013 Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Film
My Brother the Devil
Sally El Hosaini's debut feature is a remarkably slick and confident coming-of-age tale about two immigrant brothers embroiled in Hackney's violent gang cult... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
FilmElena
The third feature from Andrey Zvyagintsev is an icy anti-thriller thick with tension and brimming with allegorical undertones. Nadezhda Markina is superb in ... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013
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Film
The Bay
Barry Levinson's original plan was to make a documentary detailing the terrible environmental degradation of his beloved Chesapeake Bay on America's east coa... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Film
Alps
"I'll do anything you want." It is a mark of the topsy-turvy world that Yorgos Lanthimos has created in his new film, Alps, that, when a female characte... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Clubs
Electric Frog: Easter Weekender
Returning for the first time since their New Year's Day Blowout, Electric Frog goes full scale again with an impressive two day lineup. Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Romany Dear
Showcase: Romany Dear Movement is at the core of Romany Dear’s practice; she has a genuine fascination with the way we as people move, whether collect... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Film
Red Dawn
In 1984, the year Orwell prophesied doom, writer-director John Milius took the Cold War to its barely logical conclusion for Red Dawn, imagining a Third Worl... Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
Comedy
Sanderson Jones: "We will celebrate the hell out of life"
One of the most innovative comedians in the world right now, Sanderson Jones wants to sell you a ticket to his show. Yes, you personally Read more »| 11 Mar 2013 -
FilmBeyond the Hills
Cristian Mungiu established himself with the Palme D’Or-winning 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, a gritty tale of illegal abortion and rape in Communist... Read more »| 08 Mar 2013 -
Art
Interzone @ The Whisky Bond
It’s over 56 years since the dissolution of the Tangier International Zone, an entity immortalised by no end of bad spy movies and impenetrable, soul-s... Read more »| 08 Mar 2013 -
Music
Pearl Jam's Bass Heroes: Under the Influence
A homage to players ranging from late Stax legend Duck Dunn to hardcore punk pioneer Mike Watt, Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament tells the story of his bass neck Read more »| 08 Mar 2013