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 Banshee Chapter
H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond gets a 21st century revamp in Blair Erickson's solid first feature. When a journalist investigates the disappearance of a ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
FilmBlood Glacier (aka The Station)
“The gates of hell are open. We melted them,” laments Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), a technician working against climate change in the remote German ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
FilmThe Selfish Giant
In this Oscar Wilde-inspired addition to British cinema’s social realist canon, all of its Bradford milieu is in the gutter, but two boys are look... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
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The Stuart Hall Project
Having redefined what documentaries can do in his groundbreaking Nine Muses, Ghana-born British director and rogue historian John Akomfrah once again revisit... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
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Wings
Wings, one of the final big Hollywood productions of the silent era, is most famous for being the Best Picture winner at the inaugural Academy Awards, or rat... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
MusicNathaniel Rateliff @ Leaf, Liverpool, 24 January
For a man who’s recently released a new album – Falling Faster Than You Can Run – that's steeped in heartache and seemingly born of a deep ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014
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Music
Adam Green @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 23 January
It’s mildly disappointing to find that, in the four years since this writer first saw him play, the phrase ‘man chest hair’ still forms the... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Theatre
This Wide Night @ Tron Theatre
Written by Chloë Moss, and directed by David Greig, the award-winning play This Wide Night comes to the Tron. The play examines ho... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Theatre
Rantin' on Tour
The National Theatre of Scotland is bringing new work Rantin to ‘intimate venues’ around Scotland this January and February. In these welcoming, ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Theatre1933: Eine Nacht Im Kabarett @ Summerhall
Co-produced by Tightlaced Theatre and Sporadic Music, under the direction of Susanna Mulvihill, 1933: Eine Nacht Im Kabarett travels back to Berlin on the da... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Theatre
Open Access Arts: Cachín Cachán Cachunga! turns 5
Cachín Cachán Cachunga! turns five this February Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Theatre
West Side Story @ The King's Theatre, Glasgow
West Side Story is often revered as the grand modern translation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, one of the masterpiece musicals of the 20... Read more »| 24 Jan 2014 -
Music
Listen: Cloud Sounds with Irvine Welsh, Daedelus, Youth Lagoon and more
This week's Cloud Sounds playlist from The Skinny focuses on a new compilation curated by Edinburgh's Transgressive North, plus tracks from LAW, Girl Band, Daedelus and more Read more »| 24 Jan 2014 -
Film
Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is apparently the passion project that Peter Berg directed Battleship for, and his enthusiasm for the material is evident in every frame. The f... Read more »| 24 Jan 2014 -
Film
Glasgow Film Festival 2014 Programme Revealed
The new comedy from Wes Anderson and Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin among the films revealed in the tenth edition of the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jan 2014