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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FilmThomas Vinterberg on Another Round and Mads Mikkelsen
Thomas Vinterberg returns with boozy new drama Another Round. The great Danish director discusses his country's binge drinking culture, why some of our greatest leaders are massive pissheads and the brilliance of Mads Mikkelsen Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
MusicScotland's Festivals: 2021 preview
With Scotland's festivals back on the menu for 2021, we take a look at just some of what's on offer in the next 12 months Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
MusicLaura Mvula – Pink Noise
Laura Mvula's unique vocal range is the star of Pink Noise, her first new music in five years Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
MusicEmma-Jean Thackray – Yellow
Emma-Jean Thackray's debut album Yellow brims with kindness and connection through its musical messages Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
BooksSmithers & Wing by Heather Palmer, Kirsty Hunter
Heather Palmer and Kirsty Hunter blend exquisite artwork with action-packed writing in their first Smithers and Wing graphic novel Read more »| 28 Jun 2021 -
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
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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 -
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