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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FilmTwo Days, One Night
A new picture from the Dardenne brothers is always something to treasure; the Belgian filmmakers sprinkle tiny morsels of humanist truth and insight ove... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
FilmFrau im Mond
Soberly billed as ‘the first scientific science fiction film,’ Fritz Lang’s final silent feature, 1929’s Frau im Mond, is really almo... Read more »| 22 Aug 2014 -
Art
Be a Smarty – Go to an Art Party
With art subjects occupying an ever more precarious place within UK education, Bob and Roberta Smith's Art Party! campaign has been gaining momentum. With the release of his film Art Party!, we preview the art parties that are happening across the UK Read more »| 21 Aug 2014 -
Film
Night Moves
In her follow-up to Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt’s trademark languid, stripped-back style is maintained for her most narrative-driven film to d... Read more »| 20 Aug 2014 -
Film
The ’Burbs
With its white picket fences, perfectly tended lawns, and boring, unending conformity, suburban America can be a pretty strange place, and never more so... Read more »| 19 Aug 2014 -
Books
Neu! Reekie! does Titian @ National Gallery of Scotland
In homage to the Renaissance master, 'monthly headfuck' Neu! Reekie! took over National Gallery Scotland for a night in June bringing animation, poetry and music. The Skinny was there to experience the shame and love, myth and legend, boobs and... hip-hop Read more »| 18 Aug 2014
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Film
God Help the Girl
In the pop song format, Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch is a deft storyteller, with a couple of stanzas being all that's needed to sketch a compel... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Theatre
In Good Company: Humunco Theatre
A new company from young playwright Lewis Bray presents its first play, Cartoonopolis, about an imaginary world Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Film
The Rover
There’s nothing quite so chilling in cinema as mundane violence; violence matched for shock only by the perpetrators – and frame – demonstr... Read more »| 15 Aug 2014 -
ClubsNodding Heads: The Final Thursday Stop Making Sense
As Common's Thursday night institution Stop Making Sense comes to an end in its current form, we hear from two of the night's founding members to find out what made this start to the weekend party so special Read more »| 14 Aug 2014 -
MusicMerchandise – After The End
So what exactly do you want from Tampa contrarians Merchandise? A return to their hardcore roots? More post-punk noise-pop? Sorry kids. After The End is thei... Read more »| 13 Aug 2014 -
Music
J Mascis – Tied To A Star
Is any phrase in the pop lexicon even half as soul-crushing as ‘solo album’? They’re often drab affairs, characterised less by the artist&r... Read more »| 13 Aug 2014 -
Clubs
Breaking Free: FaltyDL aka Drew Lustman
Drew Lustman graces the formidable Ninja Tune yet again, with what might be his weirdest LP to date Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
MusicBear In Heaven – Time Is Over One Day Old
Bear In Heaven's fourth album is often shrewdly crafted. Each track is guided by a clean, simple melodic progression, Jon Philpott's vocals polished until th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
Music
Zonal Pressure: The Bug returns with Angels & Devils
The Bug, aka Kevin Martin, on the making of dualistic masterpiece Angels & Devils, the long-awaited follow-up to London Zoo Read more »| 12 Aug 2014