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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FilmThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Walerian Borowczyk’s uniquely erotic take on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic gothic tale of split personality re-imagines Dr Jekyll’s experiment... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
MusicFrom Russia with Love: Happy Meals interviewed
Scottish Album of the Year nominated duo Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, aka Happy Meals, look beyond their roots with their brand of minimalist European disco. It's already proved a hit in Moscow. Now it's the turn of Supersonic festival Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
FilmPaper Moon
There was a time when Peter Bogdanovich was a superstar director, and after making megahits with the monochrome elegy The Last Picture Show and the breakneck... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
Music
Northwest Music News — 22 May: Liverpool Sound City, Bill Ryder-Jones and more
Our Northwest music round-up features Liverpool Sound City, a new Bill Ryder-Jones collaboration and more... Read more »| 22 May 2015 -
MusicRobert Smith covers The Twilight Sad’s There's A Girl In The Corner
The Cure frontman Robert Smith has shared his cover of The Twilight Sad’s There’s A Girl In The Corner ahead of its physical release in June. Sm... Read more »| 22 May 2015 -
Art
Spooky Films, D/R/U/G/S and External Pressure: This Month in Northwest Art
With many big-name shows closing at the end of May and so many opening at the beginning of June, it's all change on the Northwest art scene. Plan your month in art with our pick of the best exhibitions and events Read more »| 22 May 2015
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Music
Sleaford Mods @ Manchester Academy 2, 15 May
Sleaford Mods probably weren't surprised by the general election result; to them, whatever the outcome, Britain’s rotten to the core. For those equally... Read more »| 21 May 2015 -
Film
Cat People
Made between his milestones American Gigolo and Mishima, Paul Schrader’s Cat People is a blend of the more commercially minded concerns of the former a... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Film
Tomorrowland: A World Beyond
With The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, director Brad Bird demonstrated a keen interest in retrofuturism, a creative trend in which futuristic technology is... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Music
American Football @ SWG3, Glasgow, 17 May
“Honestly, I can’t remember all my teenage feelings,” sings Mike Kinsella, halfway through American Football’s first appearance in Gl... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Film
Audio Terror: Carnival of Souls at HOME
There are several great cinema screenings and events at HOME over its opening weekend, but perhaps the most innovative is one in which the film has been removed from the equation. Welcome to the audio-only adaptation of 1962 horror Carnival of Souls Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Music
The Catenary Wires – Red Red Skies
The first line of Red Red Skies is a bit of a giveaway. “Nothing ever comes between us,” they sing, almost rendering void the themes of relations... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Film
Timbuktu
One of the many memorable sequences in Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu depicts a group of teenage boys playing football without a ball, as ball games have be... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Art
The Arches ‘taking legal advice’ over club closure
Glasgow multi-arts venue The Arches have stated they are “taking legal advice” on appealing a decision by the city’s licensing board to cut... Read more »| 20 May 2015 -
Music
No Joy – More Faithful
It won't change your life. It might not even change your day, but album number three from Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd makes good on their original fi... Read more »| 20 May 2015