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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FilmWhat to Watch this Week (8-15 Aug)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest film from Todd Solondz, 80s-set coming-of-... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
FilmBrady Corbet on The Childhood of a Leader
Brady Corbet has come a long way from 2004's Thunderbirds reboot. Since that inauspicious start he's chosen his acting roles wisely and with The Childhood of... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
Music
Glass Animals – How to Be a Human Being
Like a trip to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, Glass Animals’ debut Zaba was a fruit salad-coloured melting pot of fizzing percussion, popping s... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
FilmThe Shallows
Jaume Collet-Serra's shark thriller starring Blake Lively offers some unsettling scenes, but most of the groundwork was done by Jaws four decades ago Dark, ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
ComedyVir Das on Telling the Truth with Toilet Humour
Vir Das is one of the biggest names in Indian comedy, and it's apt that his first name means 'brave' – the last time he was in town, things didn’t quite go as planned Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Re-Imagining A Seminal Moment in Scottish Raving
With Slam's legendary 1989 Tramway rave as its starting point, The Pony Island looks to merge classic rave sounds with a community vibe that promotes inclusivity and fun Read more »| 08 Aug 2016
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Film
Pete's Dragon
A charming new spin on Disney's Pete's Dragon Disney’s ongoing spate of live-action remakes has once again upped the ante with Ain't Them Bodies Saint... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Film
Todd Solondz on his controversial career
For over two decades, Todd Solondz has wryly explored the lives of middle-class suburbanites trapped by their own melancholy and anxieties. We speak to him a... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Film
The Wave
Hollywood-style disaster picture made in Norway Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: Joakim
Multi-talented Crowdspacer/Tigersushi head honcho Joakim guides us through the ten tracks that make him think of summer Read more »| 06 Aug 2016 -
BooksThe Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
The revisionist treatment of the American West has gathered pace over decades, with John Wayne’s pristine duds and decency decomposing into Deadwood's ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2016 -
Music
A Guide to Deep Time
Edinburgh International Festival gets underway this Sunday with The Standard Life Opening Event: Deep Time – but what's beneath that mystical title? We... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Music
The Fall @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 30 July
In 1988 Mark E Smith joined fellow maverick songwriters Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan for a drink in a south London boozer. The occasion was a magazine interv... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Art
Gerda Scheepers @ Mary Mary
Gerda Scheepers peels away at commonplace flat-packed disposable furniture to make unexpected allusions to the body and its heavy physicality Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Film
Best film screenings in the North (5-12 Aug)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including HOME's Soundtrack season and FACT's rare screening of Jacques Rivette'... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016