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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FilmPeeping Tom: 50th Anniversary
Fifty years after its notorious debut, Peeping Tom returns to cinemas in all its creepy and lucid Technicolor glory for audiences' voyeuristic pleasure. It&r... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
MusicSharon Van Etten – Epic
You can’t argue with statistics: if the bland outweighs the good, disappoint beckons. Quality ratios can be kind to the lengthy – an opus like Th... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
MusicThe Gaslamp Killer – Death Gate EP
While psychedelic and Eastern music have all made an impact on hip-hop's sampladelic soundscape in some limited way, few have made the combination sound so n... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
FilmThe Secret Of Kells
The polished work of Pixar and its peers has left a large void for alternatives, and The Secret of Kells, basing both visuals and storyline on the famous Cel... Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
Tailor of Inverness
Tailored to fit Read more »| 22 Oct 2010 -
Music
Nosferatu D2 – We’re Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On To Block Out The Noise
Thrashing frenetic guitars, and hectic jaw-drop drumming, with what sounds like Zed from Police Academy on vocals - this is a win, win, win situation! Tighte... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010
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MusicdBass – Garden EP
Coming off a spate of gigs around the UK, dBass release their Garden EP, and if the 3 tracks don't quite capture the muscular risk-taking of their live attac... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
Music
The National @ O2 Academy, 26 Nov
Returning to the status of critical darlings without ever quite returning to the same well, The National have built a reputation of being one of the most sol... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
Film
The Collector
A small time burglar gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into a house and discovers a bloodthirsty lunatic already preying on the defenceless fami... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
Film
Predators
Predators opens with a bang. Or, more accurately, a whoosh. Our hero (Adrien Brody) wakes to find himself plummeting through the air towards the ground. A pa... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
Film
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
This live-action Tintin adventure from 1961, which sees the boy reporter and Captain Haddock on the trail of lost gold in the Aegean, gets so many details ri... Read more »| 20 Oct 2010 -
Music
DOOM @ The Arches, 20 Oct
DOOM has released some of the most fascinating hip-hop albums of the new millennium and created a lexicon that transcends the standard of most contemporary e... Read more »| 20 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Fruit Tree Foundation – First Edition
It’s tempting to be abnormally lenient towards a record borne of a good cause, with lyrical ideas that deal with difficult, easily overwrought themes o... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
Clubs
Mim Suleiman @ Huntleys and Palmers Audio Club
Since their parties commenced in December 2007, Huntleys and Palmers Audio Club have pursued a daring booking policy, promoting acts as diverse as Silver App... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
Art
Get your designs into production
We hear about a lot of opportunities here at The Skinny, but this one particularly caught our eye, perhaps because it involves slicing through rubber and met... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010