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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FilmMugabe and the White African
Mugabe and the White African delivers an emotive insight into the effects of Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe’s land acquisition policy. The docum... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
FilmIt's Complicated
The middle-aged demographic is notably underserved in mainstream romantic comedy, but on the occasion that it is, it would be nice to see an alternat... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Music
Homework: We Should Not Regress
Edinburgh-based quartet Homework have been lighting up the capital with their jittering ADD art-rock in recent months, bagging a slot at T In The Park and making noise with their sought after debut EP in the process. A critical year awaits. Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
MusicEmika - Drop the Other
Drop the Other is how Nico might have sounded had she been wearing a helmet in 1988 and lived to remain at the avant garde of the Berlin scene. It’s a ... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Film
Warhol
Invaluable for students of sixties counter-culture, this intimate and controversial collection of documentaries by David Bailey has his titular pop artist pr... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Film
Doomed Youth
Gerardo Naranjo talks about his stylish new Mexican drama I'm Going to Explode. Read more »| 08 Jan 2010
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Film
The Queen of Spades
Based on a short story by Aleksandr Pushkin and championed by Martin Scorsese (who provides an enthusiastic introduction to this DVD), this obscure 1949 fant... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Music
Danton Eeprom - Yes Is More
Electro eccentric Danton Eeprom has been around for a few years now, wildly switching directions every so often through his varied solo singles, remixes for ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Music
Icons of Elegance - Dancing Is Easy
Part of the reason that Scandinavian indie-pop seems to have such an easy journey across the North Sea to our cynical shores lies in the fact that they're so... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Music
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Dogged by the ‘folktronica’ label since his 2001 album Pause, Kieran Hebden should, with any justice, be able to escape that particular straitjac... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Music
Yeti Lane - Yeti Lane
Comfort zones make things easier to swallow, but familiarity in music needn't always breed contempt, as Yeti Lane quite carefully remind us. As with ... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
ClubsDeath Disco: Looking Forward
The folk behind Death Disco give their recommendations for the best live acts to look out in 2010. Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Music
The Seventeenth Century - The Notes EP
The Seventeenth Century are a baroque folk pop collective threading strings and things through dramatic songsmithery. As such, they’re far from groundb... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Books
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
The Children’s Book begins in 1895, when a young runaway is discovered in vaults below the South Kensington Museum. Author Olive Wellwood, adop... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
A Wee Home from Home
A pleasure from the past explains by omission how Glasgow has grown. Read more »| 07 Jan 2010