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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MusicThe Afghan Whigs to return this April with their first album in 16 years
The Afghan Whigs are back with a new album, their first in 16 years. Do To The Beast will be dropping via Sub Pop on 14 April Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Film
Film News: Live action Ghost In The Shell plans revealed; first look at James Franco's Child of God
A round-up of film news and casting rumours: Ghost In The Shell live action remake in the works; Wonder Woman to feature in three movies; the latest on Tarantino's beleagured The Hateful Eight; plus: the latest on Star Wars VII Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Theatre
Behaviour Festival programme unveiled
Behaviour is the annual festival of live performance hosted and curated by Glasgow venue The Arches. Their 2014 programme was unveiled late last week, with a huge raft of new productions, world premieres and groundbreaking performances announced Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Books
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Eli and Victor are straight-A students and best friends until they decide to investigate the existence of EOs (ExtraOrdinaries – people with superhuman... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
MusicDaft Punk sweep the board at the Grammys
French electronic duo Daft Punk took home five Grammys last night at the celeb-studded awards ceremony in Los Angeles Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
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
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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 -
Film
The 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 -
Film
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 -
Film
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 -
Music
Nathaniel 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 -
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 -
Theatre
1933: 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