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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MusicTrans Am – Volume X
There’s a mind-blowing moment halfway through Night Shift, the third track on Trans Am’s Volume X; having shuffled gloriously through two mi... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
MusicSebastian Thomson on 20 years of Trans Am
As Trans Am notch their tenth studio album, Sebastian Thomson has an awful lot to reminisce about. He chats to The Skinny about longevity, irony and obscene strategies Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Theatre
Under Milk Wood @ Tron
The Tron celebrates the launch of the Commonwealth Games with Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood. Directed by Gareth Nicholls, the play unravels a day in t... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Theatre
The River @ The Briggait
Barrowland Ballet, the Macrobert, and East London Dance present The River, a performance piece that takes its audience on a journey from the Briggait along t... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
FilmShoot the Pianist
Sandwiched between The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim, François Truffaut's frequently neglected second feature is only marginally less essential tha... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
The LEGO Movie
Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made a name for themselves by transforming dubious prospects for film adaptations (21 and 22 Jump Street; Cloudy with a ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014
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Film
Labor Day
A change of pace for Jason Reitman, and a near-disastrous one, Labor Day is an earnest attempt to make an old-fashioned romance that can’t take flight ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
Rapture
This curio from 1965 features strong performances from screen greats Melvyn Douglas (Ninotchka) and Dean Stockwell (Paris, Texas), but is carried by 15-year-... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
MusicScottish Gig Highlights – August 2014
From Earth to Converge, it's a fine month to be a cultist Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
Jules et Jim
Despite being based on the memories of 74 year old author Henri-Pierre Roché, this iconic account of a doomed love triangle is notable for its rare, y... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
Branded to Kill
The film to earn outlaw master Seijun Suzuki his P45, Branded to Kill is the flawed masterpiece of a misunderstood genius. Asked to follow up his stylised cl... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Film
Divine Inspiration: Jeffrey Schwarz on I Am Divine
No queer film festival is complete without a sprinkling of Divine. He shows up on cue at this month's POUTfest in John Waters' Hairspray and in Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary I Am Divine. We speak to Schwarz about this larger-than-life icon Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
Theatre
Around the World in Eighty Days @ Royal Exchange Theatre
Any cartoon-addicted child of the eighties will be familiar with Phileas Fogg, the wealthy Victorian about London town who wagers his £20,000 fortune t... Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
Film
We Are the Best!
It’s suburban Sweden, 1982, and punk is dead. Two 13-year-old outsiders, Bobo (Barkhammar) and Klara (Grosin), are feeling the loss more than most. Und... Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
Music
Conor Oberst @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 21 July
While angst remains etched through his music like lettering through a stick of rock, a waistcoated and wise-cracking Conor Oberst appears relatively relaxed ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2014