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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TheatreHamlet @ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
In one of 2014’s most anticipated productions, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is given new life by the inspired casting decision of a female Hamle... Read more »| 29 Sep 2014 -
TheatreWicked @ Liverpool Empire
The Wizard of Oz has delighted both child and adult for over eighty years: Judy Garland’s Dorothy is the fresh-faced heroine of little girls' dreams, h... Read more »| 29 Sep 2014 -
Film
Life After Beth
Life After Beth is a romantic zombie comedy drama. Or, as anyone fond of cinematic abbreviations might say, a rom-zom-com-dram. Dane DeHaan plays Zach, a gri... Read more »| 29 Sep 2014 -
MusicThom Yorke releases surprise new album via BitTorrent
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has caught the music world off-guard – yet again – by releasing brand-new solo album Tomorrow’s Modern B... Read more »| 26 Sep 2014 -
MusicKate Bush: Before the Dawn
35 years after she last performed a full concert, we finally get to see Kate Bush live Read more »| 26 Sep 2014 -
MusicNorth Atlantic Oscillation – The Third Day
Hardly original but big on heart and soul, this is sophisticated and intelligent dream pop. With the genre tropes of the late 80s shoegaze scene increasingly... Read more »| 26 Sep 2014
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Film
Silver Scream: Grimmfest 2014
Are you looking forward to the sixth Grimmfest? Horror fans can expect a long weekend of werewolves, vampires, killers and, er, beavers Read more »| 26 Sep 2014 -
Film
Ghost in the Shell
It’s no exaggeration to say that Ghost in the Shell is one of the most influential sci-fi films of the last two decades. Set in a futuristic cyberpunk ... Read more »| 25 Sep 2014 -
Film
300: Rise of an Empire
Part prequel, part sidequel (parallelquel?) and part sequel, this belated follow-up to 300 takes place before, during and after the events of Zack Snyder&rsq... Read more »| 25 Sep 2014 -
Film
Shivers
Shivers, which introduced erstwhile ‘king of venereal horror’ David Cronenberg to the world stage, was at one point renamed They Came from Within... Read more »| 25 Sep 2014 -
Books
Beer, Bookselling and Birds of Prey: Wigtown Book Festival preview
As Scotland's National Book Town hosts its annual Festival here's our guide to the vibrant programme of literary events in Wigtown, a town regenerated through the power of words. Read more »| 24 Sep 2014 -
Music
Miss Kenichi – The Trail
"My faith is for real and my mind is free," breathes Katrin Hahner, aka Miss Kenichi, on Who Are You. Like much of The Trail, Hahner's third album as Kenichi... Read more »| 24 Sep 2014 -
Music
EX HEX – Rips
“I got no regrets,” Mary Timony proclaims, midway through Ex Hex’s debut album. As with many of the tracks here, it’s a worldly-wise ... Read more »| 24 Sep 2014 -
Music
Die! Die! Die! – SWIM
It’s not all lackadaisical jangles in New Zealand indie rock, y’know. OK, anyone familiar with the proto-slackerisms of the Dunedin Sound might b... Read more »| 24 Sep 2014 -
Music
RM Hubbert – Ampersand Extras
Oh, this is too much. After three albums of beautiful, lilting guitar instrumentals (to which you could fairly attach genre descriptors like ‘flamenco,... Read more »| 24 Sep 2014