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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MusicEugene McGuinness - Fonz
A puerile pleasure. Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
FilmA Not-So-Old Story: Interview with John Crowley
Becky Bartlett talks to director John Crowley about his film Is Anybody There? showing at Glasgow Film Festival, a poignant drama that explores society’s attitude to the elderly. Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
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Glasgow Film Festival: Independent State
Stephen Mitchell looks at the American indie presence at GFF this year. Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
FilmThe Class
If there‘s one scene that captures most succinctly the challenge of educating and engaging a modern, multicultural group of children in The Class, it&r... Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
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Let the Right One In
If I’d known Let the Right One In was a vampire film, I wouldn’t have bothered seeing it, which would have been very much my loss. In fact, it de... Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
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Glasgow Youth Film Festival
Don’t be deterred by the title - the Glasgow Youth Film Festival caters for all ages. Becky Bartlett finds out more. Read more »| 17 Feb 2009
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Music
Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
Sky Larkin's debut album, The Golden Spike, sounds like it has been carved from the earth, its rough-hewn guitar lines rising and swelling with an elemental ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2009 -
MusicAsobi Seksu @ ABC2, 14 Feb
Tonight gets off to a shaky start with piercing feedback interrupting Asobi Seksu’s early songs. Luckily the sound-gremlins soon retire and leave the b... Read more »| 17 Feb 2009 -
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Ida Maria @ The Garage, 13 Feb
While she barely hits a note, she throws her heart and soul into every single moment. Read more »| 17 Feb 2009 -
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Johnny Mad Dog
From shooting a young boy for his basket of fruit to the gang rape of a woman caught in the middle of battle, Jean–Stephane Sauvaire’s bleak inte... Read more »| 17 Feb 2009 -
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Soft Toy Emergency - I Kno U Want It
The electro-levies have broke, and now comes the deluge. If 2009 is to be the year kids swap Fender for Casio en masse, then Soft Toy Emergency typify the sh... Read more »| 17 Feb 2009 -
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Encounters at the End of the World
For over a year, Encounters at the End of the World has travelled the festival route, and its many awards have culminated in a much deserved Oscar nomination... Read more »| 17 Feb 2009 -
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Mr 73
“God’s a son of a bitch. Someday I’ll kill him.” When a hero utters these words within the first minute of a film you know things wil... Read more »| 16 Feb 2009 -
MusicKateGoes - All We Wanna Do Is OH!
“Cute-core” Brummies KateGoes are a love-it-or-hate-it kind of band whose new single will test the resolve of the former camp and swell the ranks... Read more »| 16 Feb 2009 -
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N.A.S.A. - The Spirit of Apollo
Picture the scene: two well-connected but unsung DJs meet at a Hollywood Hills party and find they share an ideological vision of, like, peace and love for a... Read more »| 16 Feb 2009