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 Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Steve Carell is Burt Wonderstone, a David Copperfield-esque Vegas illusionist whose career and “magical friendship” with partner Anton (Stev... Read more »| 14 Mar 2013 -
FilmKen Loach: "We need a new party of the left"
The UK's great socialist filmmaker speaks to us about his latest call to arms, The Spirit of '45 – a potent reminder that it was collectivism, not capitalism, that lifted Britain out of poverty after the Second World War Read more »| 14 Mar 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 13 March
EIF 2013 programme unveiled; Trainspotting 2 confirmed; support School of Seven Bells' Ben Curtis; new music from Dillinger Escape Plan, Earl Sweatshirt, Bigg Taj and Wavves; Iron Maiden make beer; A Tribe Called Quest plan UK comeback... Read more »| 13 Mar 2013 -
MusicLapalux in interview: Brainfeeder's latest prodigy talks his psychedelic debut
As he prepares to drop his debut album Nostalchic on Brainfeeder, Stuart Howard aka Lapalux talks to us about memory, tape hiss and the emotions buried in his music Read more »| 13 Mar 2013 -
BooksStAnza International Poetry Festival, St Andrews
StAnza poetry festival director Eleanor Livingstone tells us what attendees can expect this year, what not to miss, and how the recent closure of The Byre Theatre has impacted the programme Read more »| 12 Mar 2013 -
Music
Tartufi – These Factory Days
San Francisco trio Tartufi's penchant for lush sonic textures and gentle guitar picking shines through in every track of their sixth full-length. As such, it... Read more »| 12 Mar 2013
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Music
Heterotic – 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 -
Music
Rungs – 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 -
Music
The 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 -
Film
Elena
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 -
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