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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FilmRobert Florence on the 'Golden Age of Gaming'
Gaming guru Robert Florence talks about life, games, and what it is to press multi-coloured buttons for a living Read more »| 11 Feb 2013 -
Music
The History of Apple Pie @ Glasgow Art School, 5 February
With debut Out of View doing brisk business (impressively nestled at number two in the midweek record stores chart), The History of Apple Pie shoul... Read more »| 11 Feb 2013 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Jonathan Owen
Showcase: Jonathan Owen These drawings are made by erasing the ink from printed book pages. No medium is applied to the surface of the page, only removed. F... Read more »| 11 Feb 2013 -
FilmThe We and the I
It's the last day of school and a horde of chattering adolescents squeeze on to a Bronx-bound bus. The backseat is the elongated throne belonging to four bul... Read more »| 11 Feb 2013 -
ArtMassimo Bartolini @ Fruitmarket, until 14 April
Divided across two floors, an interesting dichotomy of a show presents a decisive split between Bartolini’s renowned immersive works and his quiet stud... Read more »| 11 Feb 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 8 February
Grimes comes under fire for defending modern pop icons; Alex Harvey's life celebrated; The Arches' Behaviour 2013 programme announced; new music and videos from Gibby Haynes, Liars, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Make-That-A-Take; RIP The Stool Pigeon Read more »| 08 Feb 2013
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Film
This Is 40
Judd Apatow revives characters from Knocked Up (2005) in this spin-off starring Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd. Attempting a Lena Dunham-esque take on the dreaded... Read more »| 08 Feb 2013 -
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Oliver Braid @ Intermedia
Despite the playful nature of its titular reference to Pokémon, Oliver Braid’s latest exhibition, Snorlax Beanbag, is an almost antisocial affai... Read more »| 08 Feb 2013 -
Film
Warm Bodies
Jonathan Levine seems so seduced by the smart premise of his lazy Warm Bodies – tortured hipster zombie starts romance with live and kic... Read more »| 07 Feb 2013 -
Music
Band of Horses to headline Green Man
Band of Horses, F*ck Buttons, Edwyn Collins and more confirmed in first announcement. Read more »| 07 Feb 2013 -
Film
Minority Report: Women & Film @ GFF 2013
We preview the array of events debating and celebrating female filmmakers at this year's Glasgow Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival Read more »| 07 Feb 2013 -
Film
Skyfall
Skyfall's success at the box office has cemented Daniel Craig's reputation as the best Bond since Connery. Bringing to the role the blunt charm of a hammerhe... Read more »| 07 Feb 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 6 February
New music from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Kavinsky, Comanechi, Adebisi Shank, Sparrow & The Workshop and Wet Nuns; bills announced for Optimus Primavera, Reading and Leeds and Soundwave; plus, Kickstarter for a Death Star? Read more »| 06 Feb 2013 -
Film
I Give It a Year
I Give It a Year writer/director Dan Mazer has described his raunchy feature debut as an ‘anti-rom-com'; a subversion of those well-worn boy-... Read more »| 06 Feb 2013 -
Music
Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In
Tiptoeing the divide between showiness and subtlety, Caitlin Rose has a voice all-but guaranteed to melt hearts. Velvet-soft and effortlessly emotive, the ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2013