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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MusicElbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything
“Was the universe in rehearsal?” wonders Guy Garvey on opener The World is Blue. Clocking at nearly eight minutes and ghosting to a string-driven... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – March 2014
March brings another smattering of quality acts including Mathias Kaden for mUmU in Liverpool, and a fifth birthday bash for Zutekh! in Manchester with Midland and Trevino. And then, of course, there's Bugged Out... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
MusicThe Stars And Psychs: Sudden Death of Stars Interviewed
French revivalists Sudden Death of Stars are quietly yet assuredly leading the way in bringing the psych back into pop. Or should that be the other way round? We went all the way to Rennes to investigate Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
Film
The Tale of Iya
Iya is a place, not a person, although it comes to be one over a 169 minute running time which never overstays its welcome. This is the astonishing second fi... Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
Film
CineSkinny Awards 2014
As GFF14 comes to a close, we look back at another successful festival and hand out some of the coveted CineSkinny awards. Who needs the Oscars? Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
FilmLocke
If the close-up is cinema’s most powerful tool, not to be overused, tell director Steven Knight, who focuses intently of the face of Tom Hardy in this ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014
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Film
Directors, Cut: Jake West on Draconian Days
The horror genre has long been plagued by issues of censorship. Director Jake West exhumes its history in his latest film Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Film
Far Eastwood: Japan remakes Hollywood
Hollywood isn't the only part of the world with a penchant for remakes, as the Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven reveals Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Film
The Golden Dream
The Golden Dream is the debut feature by Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez, previously a cinematographer and camera operator on 21 Grams and The Con... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Film
Mistaken for Strangers
On the surface, Mistaken for Strangers would seem to be a standard tour rockumentary, in this case following Ohio indie outfit The National during the mainst... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Music
Carla Bozulich – Boy
A veteran of the LA alternative and avant garde music scene, Carla Bozulich uses Boy to align herself with other practitioners of skewed, angular t... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – March 2014
Behold! A homecoming gig for Franz Ferdinand, the return of the Radiophonic Workshop, rising stars Machines In Heaven and IndianRedLopez, plus an unmissable gig from German art-pop weirdos The Notwist and Anticon founder Jel Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Music
MØ – No Mythologies To Follow
Following up her feisty 2013 EP Bikini Daze, Danish pop vixen Karen Marie Ørsted – as MØ – unveils her debut No Mythologies To Foll... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Music
Micah P. Hinson – Micah P. Hinson And The Nothing
Back in 2011, a serious road accident brought Micah P. Hinson's tour of Spain to an abrupt halt. Alarmingly, losing the use of his arms was a distinct possib... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – March 2014
If there was ever an artist that just got on with it, despite their circumstances, that’d be prolific albino reggae veteran Yellowman. Raised in a King... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014