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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FilmThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 May
In today's Bulletin: The Clash to release 5-disc box set; details from the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Scottish Opera programmes; plus new music from Icarus Line, Madlib, Congo Natty and Dirty Beaches Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
BooksBear Witness by Mandy Haggith
One of the central themes of this novel – Mandy Haggith’s second with a bear in the title – is independence. It’s dealt with on a sli... Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
FilmI Wish
Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows (2004) is one of the saddest films ever made about childhood, but his latest, I Wish, feels like the optimistic fli... Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
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Epic
Epic feels like a deliberate throwback to children’s adventure films of the 80s and 90s. And not necessarily the good ones – it’s plagued b... Read more »| 21 May 2013 -
BooksGutter 08
Gutter is a leading Scottish journal of prose, poetry, and review. The latter comprise a small wedge in the centre of the magazine, offering a nice round-u... Read more »| 21 May 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 20 May
In today's Bulletin: GENERATION celebrates the past 25 years of Scottish art; Rachel Maclean wins the Margaret Tait Award; new music from Wu-Tang Clan, Liars, Mount Kimbie and more; Dundee International Book Prize shortlist announced; and much more! Read more »| 20 May 2013
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Film
Myth Making: Neil Jordan on Byzantium
Neil Jordan returns to the vampire sub-genre with Byzantium, an adult fairy tale starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. We spoke to the Irishman at Glasgow Film Festival, where Byzantium had its UK première Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
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Byzantium
Neil Jordan loves a myth. His best movies (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Company of Wolves) are dreamy fairy tales with one toe in reality. The sensual and... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
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Gangster Squad
Not much liked by the critics on its theatrical release, Gangster Squad's account of the creation of an extra-legal LAPD team to take down mob boss Mickey Co... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
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The Last Stand
"I'll give the sheriff a call to tell him to get out of the way." When a psychopathic cartel boss is sprung from custody in Las Vegas and races towards the M... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
FilmSacrifice
If there's one thing that we learn from this historical epic from director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine), it is that if revenge is a dish best served co... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Music
Nancy Elizabeth – Dancing
Arguably her most elaborate offering to date, Nancy Elizabeth’s third album Dancing pushes the Lancastrian singer-songwriter’s neo-folk... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
Art
Stephen Sutcliffe @ Tramway, until 30 Jun
Stephen Sutcliffe’s video installation Outworks is difficult to assess. It gives rise to myriad seemingly contradictory adjectives – at once humo... Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
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The Unbelievable Truth
Audry feels, and looks, like the heroine of a Nouvelle Vague film who is trapped in the very ordinary surroundings of a Long Island suburb in the late 1980s.... Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
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Something in the Air (Après mai)
Set in 1971, Something in the Air is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s ebullient tribute to the kids who had to follow in the footsteps... Read more »| 17 May 2013