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 Child (L'enfant)
Gritty socio-realism with a noirish nihilism running through it, like someone Bogarted the Loach. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
FilmThe Big White
In the end this feels like a waste of an excellent cast. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Film16 Blocks
A formulaic yet enjoyable buddy flick in heavy traffic. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Film
GFT Course: Italian Food and Cinema
Like cinema, food is perceived in Italy as culture, creativity, memory, passion and seduction; in a nutshell, as a collective emotion that shapes and informs the life of the country. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Film
Edinburgh Film News April 2006
A new film scheme offers an ideal opportunity for anyone who fancies themselves as the next Shane Meadows Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Spare Snare - Sort it for afterwards
gone is the gratingly lo-fi production of their earlier releases Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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MusicSecret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes
Like a heavyweight boxer, the Secret Machines have us just where they want us Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
MusicA Muso's Top 10: DoseOne
Anticon's Adam Kidd Drucker AKA DoseOne dropped 10 of the best on the Skinny's doorstep for the month of April and also gave us the gen on what he's got plan... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
MusicLast Great Wilderness - From the Ashes
Stop, listen, what's that sound? Local noise mongers come to tear your house down... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
FilmTsotsi
The film's unflinching portrayal of the characters' struggle for survival, respect and belonging set it apart from similarly themed fare. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
FilmThe Hills Have Eyes
Prepare to soil your underwear with sequences directed with masterful suspense Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
MusicThe Knife – Silent Shout
A few years ago, The Knife recorded a song called Heartbeats. It was a spangled slice of electropop, glad-sad and catchy, and a Swedish hit. But now it's 200... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Clubs
Joe Acheson Quartet, Saturday Night Fish Fry, The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Mar 4
A clever mix of live funk fuelled jazz that unleashes percussive breaks and drum & bass beats Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
MusicThe Easy Gramophone - April
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
FilmKidulthood
Makes for challenging and harrowing viewing at times, and it's certainly not one to take your gran or little nephew to go see. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006