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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Film
Andrea Arnold: Behind Glass
Andrea Arnold has emerged as a distinctive voice in British cinema. The Skinny talks to the director on the eve of the release of her latest film Fish Tank. Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Music
Illa J - Sounds Like Love
There’s plenty mileage in dearly departed rappers, evidenced amply by the Tupac/BIG commercial vehicles which have rumbled along for the last few years... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
September Film Events
Forget Dance Flick and instead head, on 27 September, to the Cameo in Edinburgh or the Belmont Picturehouse in Aberdeen for the ultimate morris dancing movie... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Music
Baddies - Do the Job
Do The Job is either an example of supreme bad luck or an exercise in supremely competent observation. Which is a politer way of saying either Baddies were u... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Music
We Insist! - The Babel Inside Was Terrible
The French have one hell of a knack for post-hardcore. We Insist! are into their 15th year of being but the oddly entitled The Babel Inside Was Terrible demo... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Music
Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring
Cult longevity can often be as much a curse as it is a blessing. While the existence of an audience means an artist can continue to make his or her presence... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009
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Music
Live Music Highlights - September, 2009
All connoisseurs of fucking evil drug music who know what's up will assemble at Glasgow Ivory Blacks on 10 Sep to pay their respects to Electric Wizard Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
Jesse Eisenberg: A ride through Adventureland
Jesse Eisenberg talks about his latest coming-of-age comedy Adventureland, which even comes with a recommendation from Woody Allen. Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
This Is Spinal Tap: Up To 11 Edition
Newcomers to Rob Reiner’s classic shouldn’t have the difficulties its first audience had in understanding its humour. That’s because this c... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
Glasgay! Film Festival Preview
This year's Glasgay! kicks off with a selection of films ranging from poignant drama to old school horror. Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Music
Part Chimp - Thriller
As ambitious as its title suggests, Thriller is a concise statement from a band taking a confident stride forwards. Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
Away We Go
For the last ten years, the adjective “quirky” has become over used in film criticism, but that’s only because it’s been a trait over... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Music
Amanda Palmer @ HMV Picture House, 22 Aug
Although she’s recruited a brass band - arriving in the form of local buskers the Horndogs - to bookend her set, Amanda Palmer spends the majority of t... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
Dim Sum
Set in 80’s San Fran, Dim Sum centres on the daily goings-on of a small and ordinary Chinese family, dealing with small and ordinary everyday issues. T... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Film
Adventureland
Greg Mottola’s follow up to Superbad is a quirky comedy telling a familiar coming-of-age story: recent graduate James (Jesse Eisenberg) is spending the... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009