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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ArtDundee Masters Show @ DJCAD
With just over fifty students and six disciplines exhibiting, the Dundee Masters Show offers a much smaller package than its undergraduate counterpart, but w... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
BooksHot Off the Comics Press: Villains, Pigs and Nerve
It's going to be incredibly tough for the next few weeks to look past 'the new 52' titles DC has on offer each and every week - which is a far too long a lis... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
FilmCinéma Rosé: Kim Longinotto
We speak to award winning filmmaker Kim Longinotto about her latest documentary, Pink Saris Read more »| 13 Sep 2011 -
Books
Hot off the Comics Press: First Issues
New titles and old heroes Read more »| 12 Sep 2011 -
Film
Steampunk Horror: An Interview with Leigh Whannell and James Wan
Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell swap grisly torture porn for chilling horror in their latest collaboration Insidious Read more »| 12 Sep 2011 -
MusicÅrabrot – Solar Anus
While Georges Bataille may have defined the Solar Anus in the unifying language of sexual imagery, Årabrot have further developed it into this, a pseud... Read more »| 12 Sep 2011
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Film
Friends with Benefits
All the usual ingredients are here – boy meets girl; one emotionally unavailable, the other emotionally damaged – in a tale of modern friendship ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011 -
Music
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins @ Grand Ole Opry, 7 September
It's the evening after the night before; you’d never guess by looking at them that Fife’s favourite troubadour King Creosote, or his ivory-twinkl... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011 -
Film
Post Mortem
In Tony Manero, a Chilean dancer’s quest to build an illuminated dance-floor was studded with acts of shockingly abrupt violence, to blackly comic and ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011 -
Film
Colombiana
Writer/producer Luc Besson returns to familiar super-assassin territory with Colombiana, and it may be time he left the genre well alone. After witnessing th... Read more »| 09 Sep 2011 -
MusicPublic Enemy at O2 ABC, 6 Sep
Some images from the Public Enemy gig at the O2 ABC on Tuesday 6th September 2011. Photography from Euan Robertson Read more »| 08 Sep 2011 -
Music
Public Enemy @ O2 ABC, 6 September
Billed as a run-through of the classic Fear of a Black Planet album, tonight's show clings loosely to the promised narrative whilst delving into a rag-bag ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2011 -
Books
Turf by Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards
Turf is Jonathan Ross’s debut as writer of a comic series, and this collection of the first five issues, which form a complete story, is a winn... Read more »| 08 Sep 2011 -
Music
Boom Bip – Zig Zaj
In recent years, producer Bryan 'Boom Bip' Hollon has shown a desire to connect the dots between his electro-purist roots and the hippest realms of the indie... Read more »| 07 Sep 2011 -
Music
The Shivers – More
Somehow, it’s taken five self-released albums for someone in the UK to prick up their ears and sign New York’s The Shivers. Johnny Lynch (aka The... Read more »| 07 Sep 2011