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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FilmNaked City
Jules Dassin’s absorbing 1948 potboiler The Naked City is sometimes billed as a film noir. It’s actually much more concerned with the nitty-gritt... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
FilmHide Your Smiling Faces
Death is introduced early in this US indie, with an opening shot that features a snake ingesting its prey. Its presence then lingers through every frame that... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
FilmYouth of the Beast
In 1968, Japanese director Seijun Suzuki saw his long-standing contract with the Nikkatsu studio terminated for repeatedly turning routine potboiler scripts ... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Books
The American Nightmare: An interview with James Ellroy
The L.A. Confidential author and 'demon dog of American crime fiction' discusses his new book Perfidia, alongside kilts, addictions, Beethoven, and exactly why James Franco will not be adapting his work for the big screen. Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Theatre
The Events
For a seemingly small play – two actors, 90 minutes, no interval – David Greig's The Events has a big reputation. Premiered at the Edinburgh Frin... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Film
From SNL to Sibling Hell: Craig Johnson on The Skeleton Twins
During their stints on SNL, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig proved themselves expert comic performers. In The Skeleton Twins they reveal substantial dramatic chops too. The film's writer-director, Craig Johnson, discusses channeling their dark sides Read more »| 04 Nov 2014
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Art
Not So Tatty: Playtime at Cornerhouse
Playtime marks the end of Cornerhouse and the beginning of HOME. The Skinny caught up with Cornerhouse's curator – and new Professor at Manchester School of Art – Sarah Perks, to find out what's planned for the exhibition and her thoughts on the future... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Music
Wu-Tang Clan unleash 'Ruckus In B Minor' from new album A Better Tomorrow
After a troubled genesis, the Wu-Tang Clan have released the soul-inflected single 'Ruckus in B Minor' from A Better Tomorrow, their first new studio LP... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Music
Motor City Drum Ensemble Playlist: Guest Selector
Ahead of anticipated dates in both Liverpool and Manchester, Danilo Plessow – aka MCDE – steps up with ten LPs that he considers to be "absolute must-haves" Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Music
Claudio Simonetti's Goblin perform Suspiria @ SWG3, 31 October
Like so many of the best horror films, Suspiria doesn’t just inspire nightmares; it resembles one. As victims helplessly flee from unseen assailants, l... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Art
First Person: Twisting the System
Liverpool’s Syndrome events programme experiments with the relationship of performance and technology. As they launch the third phase – exploring ‘Post-Humanities and Techno-Genesis’ – director Nathan Jones discusses his own conception of the ‘post-human’ Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Music
TV Smith – I Delete
Album number 16 from the former Adverts frontman, this time pushing his well-worn pen through themes of techno-skepticism, social fragmentation and the mindl... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
Music
Landlady – Upright Behavior
Given that Landlady’s Adam Schatz’ other collaborations include Philadelphia chamber-pop outfit Man Man, fidgety Brooklyn jazz heads Father Figur... Read more »| 04 Nov 2014 -
BooksThis is Scotland: A Country in Words and Pictures by Daniel Gray and Alan McCredie
Photographer Alan McCredie and writer Daniel Gray have merged talents to bring you the travelogue This is Scotland. It’s a flirty glance at a dozen are... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Music
Idlewild announce new album, Everything Ever Written
Idlewild have today announced their eighth studio release – titled Everything Ever Written – which is due for release on 9 Feb. Th... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014