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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FilmGFF 2012: Death of a Superhero
A refreshingly unsentimental account of a teenager dealing with terminal cancer, Death of a Superhero sees Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster, in an excellent tu... Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
TheatreFahrenheit 451 @ Bedlam
Bradbury’s futuristic dystopia Fahrenheit 451 explored through television screens, loud electronic rumblings, bright lighting and PVC costume Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
Film
Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
The cinema release of Spielberg's Tintin was met with predictable howls of outrage from certain quarters - mostly middle-aged, male Guardian writers - for wh... Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
MusicThe Metal Column – March 2012
Mainstream music has taken a couple of major blows in the past month. Whitney Houston – our favourite guilty pleasure – has become the latest vic... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
MusicHerzog – Cartoon Violence
The second LP from Cleveland, Ohio’s Herzog is a significant step forward from their 2010 debut Search; a record which sounded, by turns, like a band u... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Music
Kelvox1 – Grazed Red
Depending on how you look at it, Kelvox1 either occupy a genre-less zone of glitches and groans; or, paralactically, they’re saturated with genres, wit... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012
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Music
The Shins – Port of Morrow
Having shed all but one of their original line-up, The Shins' long-awaited follow up to 2007’s Wincing the Night Away is rather more of a musical man... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Comedy
Preparing for the Apocalypse: Anticipating the End
With less than 10 months left until the Apocalypse, I decided to get all my survival research done as early as possible. Obviously, when the world ends, th... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
TheatreAn Appointment with The Wicker Man @ Theatre Royal Glasgow
From cult horror to musical comedy Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Theatre
Passing Through @ Tron
Romance in the Tron bar Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Theatre
PUSH
Hitting the wall with style Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Art
Anna Barriball @ Fruitmarket
The work of Anna Barriball smudges the lines of traditional art disciplines; simultaneously both drawing and sculpture, hers is a practice that occupies an e... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Theatre
Spirit Of Adventure @ Oran Mor
A captain gets the bird's eye Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Film
The Sniper
"Experts can coexist." The final, summarising line of dialogue in the The Sniper suggests the dead hand of China's Communist Party at work in this story of r... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Film
Special Forces
To watch Special Forces is to go to war with your own incredulity. Individual tolerances for cliché are rigorously tested as an elite team of French s... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012