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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FilmAnother Round
Four Copenhagen high-school teachers – one played by Mads Mikkelsen – try to escape their existential lethargy through a sustained alcoholic buzz in this compassionate study of everyday life from Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
ArtThe Show Must Go On: Scottish Degree Shows 2021
After an impossible year, the graduates of Glasgow School of Art, DJCAD and Edinburgh College of Art share bodies of work that are – against all odds – considered, critical, poignant and memorable Read more »| 25 Jun 2021 -
BooksSara Jafari on The Mismatch
We meet Sara Jafari to discuss The Mismatch, her new novel exploring second-generation Iranian identity and its relationship to romantic and sexual desire Read more »| 24 Jun 2021 -
MusicSquirrel Flower – Planet (i)
Ella Williams faces her fear of disasters on her second album as Squirrel Flower, Planet (i), and ultimately regains control Read more »| 21 Jun 2021 -
MusicJohn Grant – Boy from Michigan
As its title and pared-back cover suggest, Boy from Michigan is a personal, unadorned look into John Grant’s psyche Read more »| 21 Jun 2021 -
MusicLucy Dacus – Home Video
The Virginia singer-songwriter is at her most vulnerable in front of her biggest audience yet Read more »| 21 Jun 2021
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FilmFreaky
Imagine if Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees had their hulking bodies switched with their petite teen victims. That's the delicious premise of this body-swap horror-comedy from the director of Happy Death Day Read more »| 21 Jun 2021 -
ArtScottish Community Arts and the COVID Pandemic
In the fourth in our series platforming emergent writers, produced with Edinburgh International Festival, we meet participants and organisers at WHALE Arts, NEMO Arts and Birds of Paradise to learn about their use of the arts to build community Read more »| 16 Jun 2021 -
ComedyICYMI: Helen Bauer on Parks and Recreation
Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee Helen Bauer shares the joys of the relentlessly positive Parks and Recreation Read more »| 16 Jun 2021 -
FilmBen Wheatley on pandemic-shot horror In the Earth
Ben Wheatley is so prolific, it's no surprise he's managed to write and shoot a film during the COVID pandemic. He fills us in on the production of In the Earth ahead of its UK release Read more »| 16 Jun 2021 -
FilmIn The Earth
Ben Wheatley delivers one of the first satisfying films made in the COVID-era in this resourceful microbudget folk horror imbued with expansive wilderness and lockdown claustrophobia Read more »| 15 Jun 2021 -
ClubsB2B: Vinca Petersen x Scott Duncan
Having worked together on elements of the V&A Dundee’s current Night Fever exhibition, British photographer and artist Vinca Petersen and Dundee-based artist Scott Duncan discuss creating, collaborating and clubbing Read more »| 15 Jun 2021 -
ArtLocal Heroes: Naomi Mcintosh's Quiet Garden
As her Quiet Garden installation continues at the London Design Biennale, Naomi Mcintosh talks about participating in one of this year’s most important international design events Read more »| 14 Jun 2021 -
ComedyAnia Magliano on The Weekly Shop and live comedy
Lockdown star Ania Magliano on her new podcast, work anxiety as a form of material, and her hopes for the future of live comedy Read more »| 14 Jun 2021 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Rae-Yen Song
In this month's Showcase, we highlight the work of Glasgow artist Rae-Yen Song Read more »| 10 Jun 2021