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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BooksThe Seed Beneath the Snow by Joanna Ramsey
With The Seed Beneath the Snow, Joanna Ramsey chronicles the later years of George Mackay Brown. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
ArtCCA Highlights – September/October
Sonica Festival, Take One Action and Lonelady are among the upcoming treats at Glasgow's CCA. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Music
Ought's Tim Darcy on Sun Coming Down
Ought's Tim Darcy describes the strange hive mind and shared psyche of Montreal’s hotly tipped post-punk band Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Film
La Grande Bouffe
Reviled upon its release in 1973, La Grande Bouffe now stands as one of sidelined auteur Marco Ferrari's most palatable works. Of course, the tale of French ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Film
Pickup on South Street
Sam Fuller’s punchy New York noir Pickup on South Street is lean and mean, yet also contains a curiously jovial quality to its portrait of post-war sca... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
FilmCruel Story of Youth
'Cruel' is the operative word in the title of Nagisa Oshima’s second feature – one of three he turned out in quick succession in 1960. This rapid... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015
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Film
Eat Drink Man Woman
The final chapter in Ang Lee’s 'Father Knows Best' trilogy completes the director’s tenderly ironic chronicle of the compromise between tradition... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
FilmPressure
It’s just as well for director Ron Scalpello that last year’s Black Sea flopped. Had Kevin MacDonald’s submarine thriller found the audienc... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Film
My Darling Clementine
John Ford’s take on the Gunfight at the OK Corral was one of the first of his string of Westerns in the sound era and has a legendary cast including He... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Art
The Week in Scottish Art - kennardphillipps & more
From Hospitalfield's open weekend to the culmination of kennardphillipps' Edinburgh Art Festival show, we run through the best of the week's art exhibitions and events. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
ClubsDave Clarke on White Noise 500 and the politics of EDM
Never short of a controversial opinion, Dave Clarke has influenced everyone from Daft Punk to post-punk torchbearers The Soft Moon. We journey out to Dublin for the 500th episode celebration of White Noise, his legendary, agenda-setting radio show Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – September 2015
Behold! The month of psych is here, with Liverpool Psych Fest dominating proceedings, while we also have a rather special event up our sleeves Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – September 2015
In a month of indie rock heavyweights, Future Islands face off with Baltimore housemates Dope Body at the Barras, Tame Impala swing down on Glasgow from their cosmic plane and Mac DeMarco turns the ABC into a slacker den Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Books
Northwest Book Highlights – September 2015
Controversial and political figures hit Manchester and Liverpool as Richard Dawkins and Margaret Atwood come to town, while Gladfest invites audiences to share their own opinions Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Film
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – we meet the cast
A YA weepy centred on a terminally ill teen might have some reaching for the sick bucket, but Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, dubbed "the Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers" by one US critic, is a different breed. We meet its talented young cast Read more »| 01 Sep 2015