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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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 -
ArtThere 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 -
Film
Halloween
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 -
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
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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 -
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