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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FilmWatch the Stranger Things Season 2 Trailer
A seriously creepy promo for Stranger Things season two landed online last night promising a terrifying new monster, the return of Eleven, and Mike, Luc... Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
FilmMoonlight
Barry Jenkins' decade-hopping coming-of-age film is a complex and boldly expressive meditation on time and identity Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
Music
Future Get Down @ Sneaky Pete's, 28 Jan
“That was bangin’! Better than most club nights I’ve been to,” a random punter remarks, as The Skinny's hearing and eyesight slowly r... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
Bandcamp donate profits to ACLU
New music website Bandcamp have announced that today (Fri 3 Feb) all of their profits will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union, starting from 12... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
Esben and the Witch: Guest Selector
The post-rock trio get to grips with the tracks behind their stunning latest LP Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
FilmDonald Trump 'too crazy for South Park'
“It’s really hard to make fun of [Trump]; what’s actually happening is much funnier than anything we could come up with” Read more »| 03 Feb 2017
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Music
Acting Strange – Start It Over: Track Premiere
Listen to Start It Over, the first track from the new album by Glasgow band Acting Strange Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
FilmReassessing Martin Scorsese's legacy
Think Martin Scorsese's films are all about gangsters, violence and mayhem? Think again. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
Kate Tempest shares blistering Europe is Lost video
The insanity of our current political climate is documented in the video for the powerful Kate Tempest piece Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
The Upside Down: S U R V I V E interview
Best known for their Stranger Things soundtrack, we talk to S U R V I V E about synths, sophomore album RR7349 and what's next for the four-piece ahead of th... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Film
Is Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge war porn?
War! What is it good for? Making lots of movies (say it again). Are all war movies – even those about pacifists – war porn? Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Film
Raising Cain
John Lithgow stars here as a troubled child psychiatrist in this hallucinatory, 1992 psychological thriller from director Brian De Palma. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Film
John Carpenter's Vampires & Ghosts of Mars
This pair of late works by John Carpenter prove that the genre master's filmography has riches beyond his earlier, celebrated classics Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
Introducing: Rationale
We grabbed a quick chat with Rationale, aka Tinashe Fazakerley, after his King Tut's show last month to talk touring, Pharrell, and family connections The S... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Art
Oliver Laric @ Tramway
Oliver Laric's new exhibition is a keen taken on internet transmogrification, in-between mental states, and technological reality. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017