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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TheatreThe Return of the The Wanderer: 11 and 12
One of the greatest directors of any generation comes back to the venue he helped to found. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: No Sex Please - She's Catherine Breillat
Controversial filmmaker Catherine Breillat takes a different approach to shock tactics with her latest feature, Bluebeard. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Hidden Diary
In Hidden Diary, Audrey returns to her parents’ home on the French coast after ten years abroad, keeping her pregnancy secret from her distant mother, ... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Cutting Lines
Cynthia Beatt explores the fading boundary of the Berlin Wall in her two documentaries, The Invisible Frame and Cycling the Frame, which open the Glasgow Shorts Film Festival tonight. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
MusicThe Boy Who Trapped The Sun - Home EP
Home is an incredibly mature effort for sun-trapping boy Colin MacLeod, considering that he was last spotted drunkenly dishing out Deep Purple covers in an A... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Cuckoo
With its Hitchcockian leanings and oppressive cinematography, Cuckoo is as tangible a representation of a troubled mind as you are likely to encounter on fil... Read more »| 19 Feb 2010
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Theatre
Back Beat
The Beatles are not only one of the most celebrated artistic sparks in history; they are also one of the most romanticised. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
One More For The Road
Lucille Burn steps out from the fan dances and feathers to salute the heart-broken with her first solo show Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
MusicArchie Bronson Outfit – Coconut
With 2006’s aptly titled Derdang Derdang, Archie Bronson Outfit hit a seemingly effortless groove of knuckle-bruising, country-soaked rock with... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
The Automatic - Tear the Signs Down
What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster, is it a monster? No, it's only the return of the rather pointless Welsh band behind one of the most annoyi... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Opening with a Bang (and a crash and a wallop)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest film Micmacs opens this year’s Glasgow Film Festival with a dose of hi-jinks. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Sambassadeur - European
For all its sweeping strings and pop nous, Sambassadeur’s third album is an understated affair that initial listens might write off as underwhe... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Vincere
Marco Bellocchio previously explored the impact of national politics on a personal level with Buongiorno, notte, a quietly observed depiction of the kidnappi... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
Uncluttered and Companionable
Clutter Keeps Company has a brilliant lighting design. All nuance and subtle movement, it brings the simple set to life as a pop-up book, clear and coherent.... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Initially resembling an emo-Foals, Two Door Cinema Club discover unexpected range across their full length debut. Pierce the production sheen and the... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010