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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FilmAll Things To All Men
With a twisty plot involving dodgy diamonds, drug deals and double crosses galore, All Things to All Men strains hard to deliver on a suspenseful s... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
FilmFirst Position
Adopting a similar format to 2002's spelling bee doc Spellbound, First Position is a gripping documentary that follows seven children between the ages o... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
ClubsDie Harder: Underachievers Please Try Harder
After five years and 99 clubnights, Underachievers Please Try Harder go out in style with two final blow-outs in April. The Skinny celebrates that rarest of parties: an indie disco with teeth Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Art
Declan Clarke & Andreas Bunte: Enter the Void
Curator Declan Clarke and exhibiting artist Andreas Bunte discuss the themes and sensitivities of Cornerhouse's ambitious summer group show, Anguish & Enthusiasm: What Do You Do With Revolution Once You've Got It Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
FilmA Late Quartet
Approaching their 25th anniversary concert, a world-renowned string quartet find their world disrupted by the news that cellist Peter (Walken) has been diagn... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
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Borderline-Nuts: Antonio Campos and Brady Corbet on Simon Killer
The Skinny speaks to Antonio Campos and Brady Corbet, the director and star of Simon Killer, a twisted psychological odyssey set in a nightmarish Paris Read more »| 05 Apr 2013
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Film
Promised Land
Fracking is a hot-button issue, but you wouldn't know it from Promised Land, which barely stirs any passions as it trundles through a mundane plot. Matt Damo... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
MusicTrans Am's Phil Manley and QOTSA's Jon Theodore turn Life Coach
Trans Am’s Phil Manley welcomes old college pal Jon Theodore into the fold for his second album as Life Coach. Ruthless advice and sublime cosmic jams ensue Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Music
Keep On Burning: Edwyn Collins on his fearless new LP
Edwyn Collins invites us to his west London studios to discuss Understated – his exhilarating new album Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Music
Strange Daze: Kurt Vile comes of age
Philadelphian troubadour Kurt Vile waxes poetic on rock biographies, giving up drugs, and why loving your couch doesn't make you a slacker Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Art
Opinion: What's your Northwest?
The Skinny is new in the Northwest of England. We spoke to some of those involved in Manchester and Liverpool's arts scenes about place, community, and belonging Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Film
Zaytoun
A cross-conflict road movie set during the 1982 Lebanese war, Zaytoun gets plenty right. For one, it looks fantastic, with cinematographer Dan Laustsen lensi... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
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Thursday Till Sunday
Thursday Till Sunday is the story of a family road trip, and we experience much of it from the perspective of 10-year-old Lucía (the excellent Santi A... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
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Cop and Robber: Derek Cianfrance on The Place Beyond the Pines
New American drama The Place Beyond the Pines reunites director Derek Cianfrance with his Blue Valentine lead Ryan Gosling. Cianfrance speaks to The Skinny about this epic tale of fate and fatherhood Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Music
Akron/Family – Sub Verses
On seventh album Sub Verses, Akron/Family again manage to sound both formidably outré yet instinctively graspable. No Room is a brooding beast of... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013