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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MusicM83 / Porcelain Raft @ The Arches, 19 January
Like post-Fromageau M83, Porcelain Raft is effectively one man’s nom de plume, but, also like M83, Mauro Remiddi is not performing alone, with live dru... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
MusicMull Historical Society – City Awakenings
After two albums under his own name, Colin MacIntyre has readopted his former moniker for the first time in eight years. While the intervening releases only ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
FilmRolling Thunder
With a script written by Paul Schrader, Rolling Thunder is an unlikely cut-and-paste job between a classic 70s meditation on damaged masculinity and a brutal... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
FilmAlbatross
Leather clad tearaway and wannabe writer Emilia (Findlay) takes a job at a hotel on the South Coast run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. She forms an unl... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Books
Exile by Jakob Ejersbo
Exile is set in Tanzania in the late 1980s and follows the late teenage years of Samantha, a second generation ex-pat. Packed off to an international board... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Film
Young Adult
Young Adult is the second collaboration between the creative team behind Juno, and it again displays both their strengths and their weaknesses. Jason Reitman... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012
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Film
The Descendants
Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) directs his first film in seven years with this charming comedy. Matt King (Clooney), trustee to his extended family's v... Read more »| 23 Jan 2012 -
Film
Youth in Revolt – Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012
Looking at the programme for GFF 2012 you'd be forgiven for thinking that festivities begin 16 Feb with opening gala Your Sister's Sister, but you'd be wrong. Overlook the cinematic delights of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival at your peril Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
Music
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Excepting its first and final tracks (a dated-sounding industrial take on Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song featuring Karen O, and a tough, icy interpretation ... Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
Film
J. Edgar
Few public figures have remained as enigmatic and elusive as J. Edgar Hoover, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that Clint Eastwood's sluggish biopic fail... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
Music
Machinedrum – SXLND EP
Travis Stewart has made a conspicuous habit of excellence in the last year. In Room(s) and Sepalcure (his project with Praveen Sharma, aka Braille), 2011 had... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
Theatre
The Shoogle Project
Step in time, out of time - just dance! Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars / Milagres @ ABC2, 8 January
Conjuring enthusiasm among a disappointingly thin crowd, on a Sunday night in early January, is a test for any band, and New York’s Milagres are too me... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Film
Steven Spielberg on War Horse: "This is the first fully British film I've ever made”
After the Leicester Square UK premiere of War Horse, its director, the legendary Steven Spielberg, sat down with the press to discuss his inspiration for this equine opus Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Film
The Burma Conspiracy
The Burma Conspiracy is the second film based on Belgian comic series Largo Winch. It features a Bosnian hero who lives in Switzerland, has more European co-... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012