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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BooksSeverance/Intercourse by Robert Olen Butler
This is a tale of two books, bound together as one. The reader need only flip and reverse to move between a collection of vignettes describing moments of int... Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
FilmMark Gatiss responds to Sherlock critics in verse
The creator of the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring TV show hits back at critics of the latest episode with rhyming verse. Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
MusicSOHN – Rennen
Christopher Taylor, aka SOHN, is back with Rennen, the follow-up to his beautiful 2014 debut Tremors. Starting where his previous album left off, t... Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Books
Poetry Slams, Am-drams & Bellyaches
Competition in art: a flawed concept surely? Scottish Poetry Slam champ Iona Lee argues that two separate beings, two lives of experience with opposite tastes and talents should not be graded or pitted against one another. In art there's no correct answer Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Film
David Tennant RD Laing biopic to close GFF
Glasgow Film Festival will close with the world premier of Mad to be Normal, which stars David Tennant as the great Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing. Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Comedy
2016: A Horror Story
Are we actually just living in a slasher movie? Read more »| 04 Jan 2017
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Music
Invisible Boy – Invisible Boy
Polica bassist Chris Bierden finally takes centre stage after a decade of solo shows Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
MusicZOOEY – The Drifters
While it didn’t make the shortlist for the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year, “self-care” had to be a contender – af... Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
Books
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
A cold, wet spring in Dublin. Sonny sees Vera for the first time while he’s working in her garden with his da. She walks down the path towards him and ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
Music
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 3
Equal parts red-hot fire and cold hard reality, Killer Mike and El-P’s third album as Run The Jewels is a muscular call to arms Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
FilmTrailer for Carrie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds HBO doc
HBO have released a bittersweet trailer for their new documentary following Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, which will air this week on the US channel. Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
Film
Ryan Gosling & Iggy Pop for new Terrence Malick film
Song to Song, the latest film from Terrence Malick, features Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender alongside a slate of musicians. Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
Film
Morris from America director: "I humped my pillow a lot"
We spoke to American director Chad Hartigan about his new indie Morris from America (coming to DVD this month), autobiographical filmmaking, working with perennial comic scene-stealer Craig Robinson, and, uh, pillow stimulation. Read more »| 04 Jan 2017 -
Film
Michelle Williams: "It’s unnatural to see yourself large on a screen"
From Dawson’s Creek heartbreaker to indie royalty, we speak to the incomparable Michelle Williams, who gives a stunning performance in Manchester by the Sea, the new film from Kenneth Lonergan. Read more »| 03 Jan 2017 -
Film
Manchester by the Sea
A shattering and surprisingly hilarious study of death, guilt and family centred on a revelatory performance by the good Affleck brother Read more »| 03 Jan 2017