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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FilmA Touch of Zen
Wuxia masterpiece comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 01 Feb 2016 -
FilmThe Walk
If you can get on its goofy wavelength, The Walk offers spectacular cinema – seek it out on 3D Blu-ray Read more »| 01 Feb 2016 -
FilmHong Kong cinema, from John Woo to Johnnie To
As Manchester's HOME begins its wide-reaching Hong Kong crime film season – Crime: Hong Kong Style – one writer looks back on his introduction to the city's cinema masters, from John Woo to Wong Kar-wai Read more »| 01 Feb 2016 -
FilmA Bigger Splash
I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino reteams with Tilda Swinton for a visually bold psychosexual drama Read more »| 01 Feb 2016 -
Books
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
In an understated author’s note sat quietly on a back page between the novel’s epilogue and its acknowledgements, Chinelo Okparanta states her am... Read more »| 01 Feb 2016 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – February 2016
The big guns get firing in February with Joanna Newsom, Foals and Tame Impala all in town – but there are still gems to be found among the smaller venues Read more »| 30 Jan 2016
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Books
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
Three stories, three grieving men, three years: 1904, 1938, 1981. We begin in Lisbon in 1904, as Tomas sets off in search of an unlikely 17th century artefac... Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
Music
New Albums This Week: Jesu / Sun Kil Moon + more
The week's best new records from Jesu / Sun Kil Moon, Nevermen & MONEY Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
ComedyAn Experience with Arnold Schwarzenegger
When a certain action movie legend came to Edinburgh for An Experience with Arnold Schwarzenegger, ace reporter Fred Fletch donned his tux and raced to meet his hero. Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
Art
XpoNorth announces 2016 programme
Creative industries festival XpoNorth has announced details of its 2016 programme of events, talks and seminars. Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
Comedy
Bec Hill on fun, puns and getting Caught on Tape
Lovers of terrible puns, rejoice! Australian comedian Bec Hill is the founder of a unique pun-based comedy night, Pun Run, as well as an ace standup in her own right. She tells us about her new show, Caught on Tape, and turning regret into humour Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
Books
Nobody Told Me by Hollie McNish
Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood chronicles three years and nine months of poet Hollie McNish’s life, from discovering she was pregnant – &l... Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
Film
Rams
Tender comic drama from Iceland Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
Music
Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale
Location can be an underappreciated facet in rock music. Take Nap Eyes’ second long player, for instance; recorded in a living room in smalltown Nova S... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016 -
Music
Wild Nothing – Life Of Pause
Life of Synth may have been a more apt title for Wild Nothing’s third record, cultivated as it is around layers of woozy electronic timbres. Nowhere is... Read more »| 28 Jan 2016