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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FilmWooden Crosses (Les croix de bois)
Countless films declare ‘war is hell’, but few do so with as much bitter veracity as Wooden Crosses. Adapted from Roland Dorgelès’ a... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
MusicNadine Shah – Fast Food
Nadine Shah's follow up to 2013's Love Your Dum and Mad (applause for the title alone) confirms a vision that her debut could only hint at. That opening shot... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
FilmMasculinity in Crisis: Ruben Östlund on Force Majeure
A perfect bourgeois family is rocked to its core in relationship-in-crisis drama Force Majeure. Director Ruben Östlund describes how his pin-sharp black comedy dissects perceptions of masculinity with laser-like precision Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Garden Of Elks – A Distorted Sigh
‘Thrash-pop,’ they call it, although Scotland’s Garden Of Elks favour something a little more subtle than Kerry King-style shredding. Drawi... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – April 2015
Things get political this month, with Filmhouse, CCA offering interesting cinematic takes on the Iraq war and its aftermath. There's also the return of Dead by Dawn and Harrison Ford is back hunting Replicants in Blade Runner: The Final Cut Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
BooksThe Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
The latest novel from this Nobel Prize-winning writer examines a web of corruption that extends from the world of business to the heart of family life. There... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015
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Music
Northwest Gig Highlights — April 2015
Overdraft, prepare to take another hit, ’cause there’s a shed load of essential gigs coming our way in April, from cover stars Errors to rising star Låpsley, via the thunderous Primitive Man and some swell Record Store Day gigs Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Film
Hipster Takedown: Noah Baumbach on While We're Young
While We're Young, the wise and witty new comedy from Noah Baumbach, throws a Gen X couple into Brooklyn's twenty-something hipster milieu. The Frances Ha director explains why young people both thrill and terrify him Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – April 2015
Your cinema screens are awash with classics this month, from Nouvelle Vague touchstone Breathless to comedy classic Some Like It Hot and David Lynch's Blue Velvet, which brings Cornerhouse to a close in grand style Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – April 2015
A cursory look at the month ahead confirms one universal truth: punk's not dead, it’s just got multiple synths and a top-knot these days. Get the sprin... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Film
While We're Young
“For the first time, I didn’t feel like a child imitating an adult.” With While We're Young, writer-director Noah Baumbach bridges the gap ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Film
Altman
The career-portrait documentary is a tricky beast to pull off. A director will be inclined to do the artist’s body of work complete justice while also ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Comedy
Rich Hall: Hoedown @ Garage
Rich Hall has won the most prestigious comedy prizes and also has a claim as the real-life inspiration for bartender Moe Szyslak from The Simpsons. Th... Read more »| 28 Mar 2015 -
Books
The Honours by Tim Clare
Tim Clare is a stand-up poet and the author of award-winning memoir We Can’t All Be Astronauts. His debut novel, The Honours, is a tightly pl... Read more »| 27 Mar 2015 -
Music
Warpaint @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 24 March
“It sounds like you’re shouting horrible things, but I’m hoping they’re nice? Is that just the Scottish way?” asks Warpaint&rsq... Read more »| 27 Mar 2015