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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BooksTin Man by Sarah Winman
It starts with a painting, selected as a prize at a small town raffle, mainly to the disarray of the men shouting for the whisky. A seemingly innocuous event... Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
MusicColin Stetson @ Gorilla, Manchester, 14 Jul
Virtuoso woodwind and brass player Colin Stetson delivers an entrancing set tonight as part of the Dark Matter series – slogan: “Destroy your Boundaries” – during the Manchester International Festival Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
ComedyLimmy plans new online sketch show
The comedian plans to launch a new sketch show with monthly episodes online Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
FilmWhen Pop Stars Act: The best and worst
From Harry Styles in Dunkirk to Rihanna in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, our cinema screens are currently full of pop stars having a go at acting, but it's hardly a new trend. Here are the best and worst examples Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
Comedy
Spotlight: Jade Fearnley
Manchester has its own booming improv comedy scene, and Jade Fearnley is at its heart Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
FilmWatch Will Smith in trailer for fantasy film Bright
Will Smith and Joel Edgerton star in David Ayer’s $100 million Netflix fantasy drama, which comes across as Training Day meets Lord of the Rings Read more »| 21 Jul 2017
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Music
Mickey Lightfoot on politics, the media and Needy Bruises
Ahead of the release of his new EP Needy Bruises, London artist Mickey Lightfoot talks to us about the "complexity of black experience" “If you don&rs... Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
Music
Fake Laugh – Fake Laugh
Fake Laugh, the new project from Kamran Khan, have teased their fans with a splattering of singles and EPs over the last few years but now their self-titled ... Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
Film
A Ghost Story
Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck get ghosted in David Lowery's spellbinding exploration of the passage of time Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights: 20-25 July
In Glasgow, techno mainstay Peter Van Hoesen stops in at Sub Club this weekend, while over in Edinburgh, the Heverlee mini-festival is soundtracked by some top local talents Read more »| 20 Jul 2017 -
Film
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Fifth Element director Luc Besson returns to epic sci-fi with an imaginatively designed space opera marred by a wonky script and a pair of dead-eyed leads Read more »| 20 Jul 2017 -
Film
Watch first trailer for Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water
The first trailer for The Shape of Water, the latest film from the director of Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim, looks stunning Read more »| 19 Jul 2017 -
Film
Watch James Franco as The Room's Tommy Wiseau
Take a first glimpse of James Franco in action as Tommy Wiseau, the bizarre auteur behind 2003 oddity The Room, which is often dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” Read more »| 19 Jul 2017 -
Clubs
The Warehouse Project announce full 2017 line-up
The full details of this year's Warehouse Project in Manchester has been unveiled, with Daphni, The Chemical Brothers, Mura Masa and Nina Kraviz among the huge line-up Read more »| 19 Jul 2017 -
Music
Psychedelic Living: The Black Angels interview
As The Black Angels prepare to headline the Liverpool Psych Fest in September, we speak to guitarist Christian Bland about their latest record Death Song and the merits of living the psychedelic life Read more »| 19 Jul 2017