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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MusicSuuns – Images du Futur
If at first you don't succeed, try again? That seems to be the motto of Montreal's Suuns. 2011's excellent Zeroes QC was criminally overlooked by t... Read more »| 26 Feb 2013 -
MusicFunction – Incubation
The debut full-length album from New York's David Sumner under his Function alias has been a long time coming – his production and remix credits using ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 25 February
In today's Bulletin: Playstation 4 news, Iggy & The Stooges reform, a new Belle & Sebastian doc, Creative Scotland's public consultations begin, plus new music from The Pastels, Small Black, Conquering Animal Sounds, and Cannibal Ox's new Kickstarter Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
Books
Gone Again by Doug Johnstone
Edinburgh-based Doug Johnstone has pared down the breadth of his subject matter – his last novel, Hit and Run used the setup indicated by its titl... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
MusicThe Bronx / Single Mothers, The Garage, 16 February
Ontario's Single Mothers have often been compared to The Hold Steady – mainly due to vocalist Andrew Thomson's vivid, half-spoken narratives ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
Music
How to Destroy Angels – Welcome oblivion
Having delivered two competent-but-unremarkable EPs thus far, How to Destroy Angels were surely looking to make a strong statement with their debut long-play... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013
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Film
Premium Rush
Premium Rush is the story of Wilee, a lawyer turned bike messenger, who is on a mission to deliver an envelope on which a life depends, hotly pursued by... Read more »| 24 Feb 2013 -
Film
GFF 2013: CineSkinny Awards
The most important awards of the weekend, the CineSkinny's GFF awards... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
Film
Glasgow Kizz: Big Star and Glasgow
Glasgow Film Festival 2013's closing gala party will feature a tribute to Big Star, with DJ sets from Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and the good folks at Monorail. We take a look at some of the ways Big Star and Glasgow have connected over the years Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
Film
GFF 2013: The History of Future Folk
Arriving on our planet to evaluate it for invasion and resettlement, General Trius (d’Aulaire), later called Bill, is seduced by the sounds of music, a... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
Film
GFF 2013: Vito
The life of the late Vito Russo, an activist for both LBGT rights and AIDS awareness, has particular resonance for cinephiles, being that he was also a film ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
Film
A Pentametric Glance at Shakespeare Films
Shall I compare thee to another film? As Glasgow Film Festival 2013 is closing with Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, we take a look at previous Shakespeare adaptations Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
Books
Me and You by Niccolò Ammaniti
The third Ammaniti novel to be translated from Italian into English, he moves away from the thriller format he experimented with in I'm Not Scared and Steal ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013 -
Film
Close-Up: In Praise of Dreyer's Joan of Arc
Is there a more expressive face in cinema than that of Renée Maria Falconetti's in The Passion of Joan of Arc? We celebrate this masterpiece ahead of its screening at Glasgow Cathedral Read more »| 22 Feb 2013 -
Music
Mogwai – Les Revenants
Mogwai's soundtrack for French zombie TV show Les Revenants is an exercise in wilful self-control and restraint, with their customary feedback-driven walls o... Read more »| 22 Feb 2013