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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FilmKnightriders
Knightriders opens with a wonderful visual gag. Through a gauzy lens we see a naked Ed Harris awake with his lady friend in sylvan glade. After bathing in th... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
MusicColin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Sometime session saxophonist Colin Stetson has been blazing a strange and experimental path with his New History Warfare series, in which unique pl... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 15 April
Deftones' Chi Cheng remembered; new music from Daft Punk, The National, King Midas Sound and Black Pus; Grizzly Bear's ATP event re-scheduled; Wu-Tang Clan announce new album and tour, plus: General Zod is not amused Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Music
Steve Mason @ King Tuts, Glasgow, 9 April
By his own estimation, Steve Mason is operating at about 80% strength tonight due to a lousy start-of-tour cold. But, he adds, “that’s still enou... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Film
Small Pleasures: Sam Meech on A Small Cinema
We all hate the multiplex, its strange odours, its soulless architecture, its noisy patrons and their volcano acne. But what's a film-lover to do? Sam Meech, creator of A Small Cinema, has a solution Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Film
Evil Dead
Few 80s horrors have escaped the unflinching gaze of the ruthless Hollywood remake machine. But some thought The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi’s scrappy, much-l... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013
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MusicCut Yourself in Half – Mekkanizm
Yorkshire's Cut Yourself in Half lift more than a few pages from Mastodon's book on this first set of recordings: the down-tuned, groove-oriented nature of t... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: April 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES April sees you discover a demonic real-life computer game cheat written in an ancient grimoire. Jump, jump, blink, blink, squat, step forwards, step ba... Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Music
British Sea Power, Casual Sex @ Òran Mór, 7 April
For much of their current tour, British Sea Power have been opening gigs with a bonus set of ‘mellow’ fan-favourites. Unfortunately, Oran Mor&rsq... Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 12 April
Trailer emerges for Irvine Welsh's Filth; Oliver Stone defends Julian Assange; Scott Walker box-set announced; new KORG synth recreates the 303 and 808; Death Grips remix The Prodigy; new music from Pictureplane, United Fruit and more, plus festival news Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Film
Flying Blind
In a tense world of racial profiling and questionable military ethics lands erotic political thriller Flying Blind, starring Helen McCrory as leading aerospa... Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Film
Will Anderson on The Making of Longbird
After having his film, The Making of Longbird, selected for dozens of film festivals and winning awards from most of them, Will Anderson crowned off a fantastic year by winning the BAFTA for best animated short. We speak to this talented filmmaker Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Books
World Book Night 2013
Now in its third year, World Book Night returns on 23 April with a whole host of nationwide events designed to celebrate reading and encourage those who do not regularly read to get involved Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Film
The Collection
A sequel of sorts to The Collector, from 2009, The Collection opens with an entertaining scene in which a gimp-masked serial killer takes out an en... Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Music!!! – Thr!!!er
Throughout their 17 years thus far, !!! have evolved from a tight, snarling punk-funk ensemble into something altogether more louche, studied and h... Read more »| 11 Apr 2013