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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Tv RadioWatch the first trailer for The Handmaid’s Tale season 2
The award-winning show returns for a second series, and the first trailer suggests that life in the Republic of Gilead will be even more bleak for women – but resistance could be in the air Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
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Watch Bill Murray's surprise turn as Steve Bannon on SNL
Former SNL funnyman Bill Murray returned to his old haunt to portray the dermatologically challenged mastermind of Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
Music
The Spook School on touring, safer spaces and their new album
As The Spook School ready themselves for the release of new album Could it be Different?, we chat self-care, safer spaces and the sudden closure of Fortuna Pop! Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
MusicTeenage Fanclub's Francis Macdonald on his new classical suite
We chat to Teenage Fanclub drummer, and classical composer, Francis Macdonald about his latest offering, Hamilton Mausoleum Suite Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
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TV version of Gareth Edwards’ Monsters in the works
Edwards' low-budget monster movie from 2010 is being developed into a sci-fi series for Channel 4 Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
MusicDjango Django on new album Marble Skies
We catch up with Django Django at the end of 2017 to talk about their busy work schedule and their latest record, Marble Skies Read more »| 15 Jan 2018
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Film
Joaquin Phoenix turns vigilante in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal thriller
The trailer for You Were Never Really Here, one of our most anticipated films of the year, shows Joaquin Phoenix's character ready to hand out some violent retribution Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Books
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
The new collection by American poet Danez Smith is a truly unique and resonant read Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Music
Eurosonic Noorderslag 2018: Preview
From much-hyped acts like Sigrid and Pale Waves to German techno marching bands and Icelandic hip-hop, we preview Eurosonic 2018 and take a closer look at the Danish acts at this year's festival in Groningen Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
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Netflix cyberpunk thriller Altered Carbon looks jaw-dropping
The trailer for this ambitious sci-fi set 300 years in the future will knock your socks off Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
ComedyFringe Dog's Guide to Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
Froget willpower, try dog power Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
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Flight of the Conchords confirm TV return in 2018
But it's not in the form of their much-loved cult HBO comedy. Instead, it'll show starring Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie might be back in 2018 in the form of an hour-long special Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Film
Listen to Jonny Greenwood’s stunning Phantom Thread score
The Radiohead multi-instrumentalist's fourth collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson is now available online, and it's stunning Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Music
The Go! Team on optimism, playing live, and Semicircle
Ahead of the release of their fifth studio album, Semicircle, producer and The Go! Team leader Ian Parton explains how the band's sense of utopia is needed more now than ever before Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Theatre
Jemima Levick and Fleur Darkin on The Lover
Ahead of its world premiere later this month, The Skinny talks to the directors of The Lover, the first stage adaptation of Marguerite Duras' classic autobiographical novel about the book, the play and the coincidences that led to its premiere Read more »| 12 Jan 2018