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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MusicMØ – 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 -
MusicMicah 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 -
MusicO2 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 -
MusicWater Liars – Water Liars
There's a burning passion comparable to the earlier recordings of My Morning Jacket scattered across Water Liars' third, self-titled full-length, but the air... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
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Skaters – Manhattan
Ignore the shuffle of primitive syn-drums that raise the curtain here. They’re little more than a flutter of false promise, swiftly giving way to the S... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Real Estate – Atlas
Last album Days seemed to unexpectedly catapult Ridgewood, New Jersey natives Real Estate to the top table of American indie. Atlas largely follows a similar... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014
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Film
At Home in The Dark: FrightFest at GFF14
The festival might be in its closing days, but this year's FrightFest line-up shows the thrills are far from over Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
FilmThe Zero Theorem
In the vein of Spike Jonze’s Her, Terry Gilliam’s latest sci-fi, like all the best films in that genre, puts humanity under a microscope lens and... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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The Phantom Movie: Roger Christian on Black Angel
Black Angel has remained a fuzzy memory in the heads of those who saw it with The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. Tonight, Roger Christian presents the film at GFF14 Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Love Is Not What It Used to Be (El amor no es lo que era)
In one Spanish city, three couples of varying ages undergo differing experiences of modern love: elderly former lovers meet again after years apart, a middle... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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We Are Analogue: Chris Petit on post-cinema and the Museum of Loneliness
Writer, director and artist, Chris Petit brings his post-cinematic multi-platform project, Museum of Loneliness to GFF14. We catch up with Chris to find out what exactly is post-cinema and what it means for viewers in our post-modern age. Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Under the Skin
Under the Skin, the long awaited cinematic return of Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth), opens with a hallucinatory dance of light and sound, which in turn ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
Music
Sudden Death of Stars – All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown
Everything the Sudden Death of Stars do is not so much tinged but teeming with a sepia tone. The Rennes sextet exist in that increasingly inclusive realm of ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Johnny Foreigner – You Can Do Better
Diminishing returns? Nah. Johnny Foreigner may plead ignorance as to why they still haven’t mellowed out by this fourth record, but it’s false mo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014 -
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Bill Pritchard – A Trip to the Coast
Staffordshire-born songwriter Bill Pritchard has been releasing music intermittently since the eighties, though if the name doesn’t ring bells it&rsquo... Read more »| 27 Feb 2014