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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TheatreEducating Rita @ The Lowry, Salford
It’s a surprisingly low-key start to the Library Theatre Company’s final season before they merge with HOME. Educating Rita, Willy Russ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
FilmWe Are What We Are
Jim Mickle updates Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 cannibal family drama in solid style, building on the promise of his low-key vampire saga Stake Land from t... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 18 October
In your weekly Bulletin: Superman turns 75; Ben Wheatley to direct Doctor Who; new music from Prince, Atoms For Peace, James Blake, Snoop Dogg and Eminem; Nigel Godrich and David Byrne slam Spotify; and CHVRCHES play The Boiler Room Read more »| 18 Oct 2013 -
ArtKaren Cunningham @ Collective, until 24 Nov
Contemporary art’s ongoing project to wean itself off philosophy and onto newer disciplines such as anthropology seems to be progressing well, particul... Read more »| 18 Oct 2013 -
TheatrePlay Pie and a Pint: The Trouble with Double @ Òran Mór
Watch out world, there’s a new Mrs Malaprop in town and she’s causing havoc with her own unique malapropistic condition. It’s the morning ... Read more »| 18 Oct 2013 -
Books
Personae by Sergio De La Pava
Postmodern to the core, Sergio De La Pava's Personae starts out telling the story of Detective Helen Tame – musical prodigy/polymathic essayist e... Read more »| 18 Oct 2013
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Music
Melvins – Tres Cabrones
Despite growling their way into middle age, the Melvins never really seemed the sort of band who’d bother to grow up. The snickering nastiness of their... Read more »| 17 Oct 2013 -
Film
Captain Phillips
Dramatising the real-life hijacking of an American freighter by Somali pirates, Captain Phillips sees docudrama master Paul Greengrass occupying safe creativ... Read more »| 16 Oct 2013 -
Film
The Fury
A sort of blown-up companion to 1976’s Carrie, The Fury follows Peter Sandza (Douglas) as he searches for his psychic son, Robin (Stevens), who’s... Read more »| 16 Oct 2013 -
Film
Realist Fairytale: Clio Barnard on The Selfish Giant
The Arbor director Clio Barnard discussed her second feature film The Selfish Giant, an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde fairytale of the same name, which sees her back on the Arbor estate in Bradford Read more »| 15 Oct 2013 -
Music
Laurel Halo – Chance of Rain
It ends as it starts, book-ended by the brief electric piano meanderings of the opening Dr. Echt, and the closing Out. Mini-overture and coda, they house the... Read more »| 15 Oct 2013 -
Music
Botany – Lava Diviner (Truestory)
The bizarrely clunky title of Spencer Stephenson’s debut as Botany reflects the LP’s similarly bonkers concept, which narrates the tale of a fict... Read more »| 15 Oct 2013 -
Music
Apex Zero – Reality Provoking Liberation
Trading in a decidedly old-school form of lyricism that recalls early London pioneers, Apex Zero's raw, manifesto-driven raps have a lot in common with the e... Read more »| 15 Oct 2013 -
Music
In Pictures: The Pleasance Sessions
The Skinny Presents... Rick Redbeard / LAW / Siobhan Wilson / Honeyblood @ The Pleasance Sessions, 12 October Edinburgh University Students' Association's P... Read more »| 14 Oct 2013 -
Music
Autechre – L-Event
L-Event finds the veterans delivering a characteristically uncommercial four-track set of inscrutable electronic contortions. Tac Lacora leans hard on metall... Read more »| 14 Oct 2013