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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TheatreDragon @ Citizens Theatre
From the first glimpse of the cotton wool clouds hanging from a brooding sky, it is with a sense of wonder that you watch Dragon. Wonder at the choreogr... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
MusicGhostpoet @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 19 October
If nothing else, you have to give Ghostpoet – real name Obaro Ejimiwe -– his due for not swaying in the face of popular pressure. His lyrical con... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
MusicCrystal Antlers – Nothing Is Real
Tricky things, influences. You can reference all the Dinosaur Jr licks or Fugazi rhythms you want, but no-one ever fell in love with tasteful record collecto... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
Art
There Is No Rewind @ Talbot Rice
Within the darkened Neoclassical interior of the Georgian gallery a single projector screen stands before a scattering of candlelit tables. It shows the fami... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
FilmHalloween
John Carpenter's iconic horror defined the slasher genre and for many it’s never been bettered. Looking at it today, it’s startling just how sim... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
Film
Hummingbird
If you're expecting another manic actioner, you could be disappointed by Jason Statham’s latest, which swaps OTT gunplay for religious symbolism and a ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013
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Theatre
Educating 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 -
Film
We 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 -
Art
Karen 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 -
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