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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FilmSimon Killer
Simon, played with considerable nuance by Brady Corbet, is an American neuroscience graduate visiting Paris after being dumped by his girlfriend. His ex... Read more »| 10 Apr 2013 -
BooksWe're Flying by Peter Stamm
Following his celebrated novel Seven Years, We're Flying is a short story collection by Peter Stamm, brimming with insight into the psychological r... Read more »| 09 Apr 2013 -
MusicDavid Grubbs – The Plain Where the Palace Stood
The second song on David Grubbs’ first full-length in five years, I Started to Live When My Barber Died, is a playful meditation on the creative potenc... Read more »| 09 Apr 2013 -
Music
Pan American – Cloud Room, Glass Room
Billed as an album that was 'written to be played live,' Mark Nelson's umpteenth album under the Pan American moniker makes only small changes to the group's... Read more »| 09 Apr 2013 -
ArtThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 8 April
In today's Bulletin: Watch an Alice in Chains mockumentary, new Killing Joke box-set, James Blake versus the Internet, new music from OMD, Cannibal Ox, The Asphodells, Balam Acab, Cat Power, The Besnard Lakes and The National, plus: Lunice on Boiler Room Read more »| 08 Apr 2013 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Kevin Hunt
Showcase: Kevin Hunt Kevin Hunt is a sculptor based at The Royal Standard, an artist-led gallery, studios and social workspace in Liverpool, and is a former... Read more »| 08 Apr 2013
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Film
may i kill u?
A bash on the head turns a mild-mannered London bobby into a serial killer, albeit one who only targets those who break the law and agree to be killed. Write... Read more »| 08 Apr 2013 -
Film
The Place Beyond the Pines
While the brutal intimacy of Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine owed a great deal to Cassavetes, this epic follow-up of family, fate and corruption... Read more »| 08 Apr 2013 -
Film
Harmony Korine on Spring Breakers: “I’m a soldier of cinema”
If you thought the teens in Kids were horned-up wait til you get a load of Spring Breakers' fresh-faced hedonists. We speak to Harmony Korine about his Day-Glo "pop-poem" to the annual American-teen tradition Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 5 April
Daft Punk return with a little help from Giorgio Moroder; new music from Still Corners, Zomby, CocoRosie and Bibio; the latest festival news; opportunities for artists with Collective's Satellites Program; Milan's vertical forest, and much more Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Film
All Things To All Men
With a twisty plot involving dodgy diamonds, drug deals and double crosses galore, All Things to All Men strains hard to deliver on a suspenseful s... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Film
First Position
Adopting a similar format to 2002's spelling bee doc Spellbound, First Position is a gripping documentary that follows seven children between the ages o... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Clubs
Die Harder: Underachievers Please Try Harder
After five years and 99 clubnights, Underachievers Please Try Harder go out in style with two final blow-outs in April. The Skinny celebrates that rarest of parties: an indie disco with teeth Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Art
Declan Clarke & Andreas Bunte: Enter the Void
Curator Declan Clarke and exhibiting artist Andreas Bunte discuss the themes and sensitivities of Cornerhouse's ambitious summer group show, Anguish & Enthusiasm: What Do You Do With Revolution Once You've Got It Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Film
A Late Quartet
Approaching their 25th anniversary concert, a world-renowned string quartet find their world disrupted by the news that cellist Peter (Walken) has been diagn... Read more »| 05 Apr 2013