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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MusicJoan as Police Woman – The Classic
There are times, as on the Motown-fuelled Holy City, a breathless, ribald devotional (“Yeah, I’m ready to get up on your wailing wall!”), w... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Books
Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood
Ernest Hemingway was a great man: a writer, a lover, a fighter. But this novel is about the women who normally comprise his subplot – the wives. O... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
FilmAussie Rules: Ted Kotcheff reflects on his 1971 classic Wake in Fright
Ahead of the reissue of Wake in Fright, a blistering study of Outback machismo from 1971, we speak to its director Ted Kotcheff about the film's shoot in Broken Hill, New South Wales Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
MusicLiverpool's Get Into This Award: Shortlist announced, featuring Evian Christ, Ninetails and more
The shortlist for this year's GIT (GetIntoThis) Award has been announced, and it included a few Skinny favourites from Liverpool and beyond, like Evian Crist, Forest Swords, Ninetails, Dan Croll and Tea Street Band Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Music
King Midas – Rosso
King Midas have some reacquainting to do. Rosso is the Norwegian cult act's first album in six years, but it's also their international debut. An odd blend o... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
MusicElbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything
“Was the universe in rehearsal?” wonders Guy Garvey on opener The World is Blue. Clocking at nearly eight minutes and ghosting to a string-driven... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014
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Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – March 2014
March brings another smattering of quality acts including Mathias Kaden for mUmU in Liverpool, and a fifth birthday bash for Zutekh! in Manchester with Midland and Trevino. And then, of course, there's Bugged Out... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Music
The Stars And Psychs: Sudden Death of Stars Interviewed
French revivalists Sudden Death of Stars are quietly yet assuredly leading the way in bringing the psych back into pop. Or should that be the other way round? We went all the way to Rennes to investigate Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
Film
The Tale of Iya
Iya is a place, not a person, although it comes to be one over a 169 minute running time which never overstays its welcome. This is the astonishing second fi... Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
Film
CineSkinny Awards 2014
As GFF14 comes to a close, we look back at another successful festival and hand out some of the coveted CineSkinny awards. Who needs the Oscars? Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
FilmLocke
If the close-up is cinema’s most powerful tool, not to be overused, tell director Steven Knight, who focuses intently of the face of Tom Hardy in this ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Film
Directors, Cut: Jake West on Draconian Days
The horror genre has long been plagued by issues of censorship. Director Jake West exhumes its history in his latest film Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Film
Far Eastwood: Japan remakes Hollywood
Hollywood isn't the only part of the world with a penchant for remakes, as the Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven reveals Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Film
The Golden Dream
The Golden Dream is the debut feature by Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez, previously a cinematographer and camera operator on 21 Grams and The Con... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014 -
Film
Mistaken for Strangers
On the surface, Mistaken for Strangers would seem to be a standard tour rockumentary, in this case following Ohio indie outfit The National during the mainst... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014