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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MusicGary Numan: The Rise and The Fall
Ignoring your detractors can serve you well – electro godfather Gary Numan knows this better than most Read more »| 15 Sep 2011 -
MusicGlassjaw @ O2 ABC2, 25 August
Two Scottish gigs in 18 months is swift work by the measure of Glassjaw's previous form. The New York quartet came close to kicking the plug out completely w... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
Film30 Minutes or Less
High hopes spilled from this reunion of Zombieland director and star, Ruben Fleischer and Jesse Eisenberg, but the result is a comedy crime caper centred on ... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
Music
Mastodon – The Hunter
A lot of great bands have come to an end prematurely due to pushing too hard in the studio, and it's to Mastodon's credit that they've been upfront about the... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
FilmDirector Let Loose: David Mackenzie
Tennent's lager, tent sex and The Proclaimers accompanied by 85,000 backing singers – all familiar to those who make the annual pilgrimage to Kinross for T in the Park. David Mackenzie brings this experience to the big screen with You Instead Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: Clooney and Cocktails
31 August marked the opening of the Venice Film Festival so we donned our most fabulous clothes, boarded the not-quite-as-fabulous vaporetto and sped&nb... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011
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Art
Dundee 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 -
Books
Hot 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 -
Film
Cinéma 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 -
Music
Årabrot – 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 -
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