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 RadioTV 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 -
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 -
MusicEurosonic 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 -
Tv Radio
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
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ComedyFringe Dog's Guide to Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
Froget willpower, try dog power Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Tv Radio
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 -
Art
Ben Soedira: The Skinny Showcase
A look at the work of Glasgow-based photographer Ben Soedira, and his Foreign Sands project focused on his home city of Dubai Read more »| 11 Jan 2018 -
Art
Kate V Robertson @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
Kate V Robertson's installation in Dundee Contemporary Arts combines monumental scale with material precarity to provide insight into concepts of productive failure Read more »| 11 Jan 2018 -
Film
Michelle Williams 'paid a fraction of Wahlberg's salary' for Spacey reshoots
Celebrated actor Michelle Williams made 1,500 times less than her co-star Mark Wahlberg for their roles in the re-shoots for All the Money in the World Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
Music
Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on I can feel you creep into my private life
Merrill Garbus tells us about exploring her relationship with whiteness on Tune-Yards' ominously-titled fourth album, I can feel you creep into my private life, and officially re-branding as a duo Read more »| 10 Jan 2018