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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BooksThe Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore
AK Blakemore writes the forgotten women of the East Anglia Witch Trials back into history in her debut novel Read more »| 01 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Iorram (Boat Song)
Blending audio from the past and images of the present, Iorram's mosaic of everyday life, myth and folk song paints a compelling portrait of the tight-knit fishing communities of the Outer Hebrides Read more »| 01 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché
Blending archival footage, diary extracts and voiceover interviews, I Am A Cliché celebrates the life and legacy of X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene Read more »| 26 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Black Bear
Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon are electric as the three leads in Lawrence Michael Levine's metadrama concerned with shifting identities and cruel power games Read more »| 26 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Riders of Justice
If Taken featured scenes of screwball comedy and tender male bonding, it might look a bit like Riders of Justice, which stars Mads Mikkelsen as a soldier out for revenge after the death of his wife Read more »| 25 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Castro’s Spies
Compelling doc following the Cuban Five, a group of undercover agents who lived in Florida in the 1990s gathering intel for Castro Read more »| 25 Feb 2021
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FilmGFF 2021: Creation Stories
Creation Stories is anchored by a magnetic performance from Ewen Bremner, but Nick Moran's biopic of the larger-than-life Alan McGee is surprisingly conventional Read more »| 25 Feb 2021 -
MusicPost Coal Prom Queen – Wait, Wait! Dig! (premiere)
Listen to Wait, Wait! Dig!, the dancefloor-ready new single from dreampop duo Post Coal Prom Queen, fka L-space Read more »| 23 Feb 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Minari
Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical drama takes us back to the 1980s, where a Korean American family is trying to adjust to life in rural Arkansas. The result is a film touched by magic Read more »| 23 Feb 2021 -
MusicJulien Baker – Little Oblivions
Julien Baker's third album, Little Oblivions, is a record of often intense, sometimes perilously dark, self-reflection Read more »| 22 Feb 2021 -
MusicBlanck Mass – In Ferneaux
Benjamin John Power returns with a more reflective and hymnal take on the Blanck Mass sound Read more »| 22 Feb 2021 -
FilmHow Trainspotting Changed Scotland, 25 Years On
How Danny Boyle's swaggering and hilarious film about a group of young heroin addicts in Edinburgh seared itself on a generation's consciousness and helped change Scotland forever Read more »| 22 Feb 2021 -
FilmBen Sharrock on moving refugee comedy Limbo
Humour and humanity abound in Limbo, Ben Sharrock's moving deadpan comedy about a group of refugees killing time on a desolate Scottish island, patiently hoping to be granted visas Read more »| 19 Feb 2021 -
ClubsLaughing Ears on new album Blood
Shanghai-based producer Laughing Ears takes a tale from Norse mythology as the inspiration for her second album, Blood – she tells us why that story resonated with her and how it influenced the album Read more »| 19 Feb 2021 -
TheatreLeonie Rae Gasson and Melanie Frances on HOTLINE
We may be living in the Zoom era, but some theatremakers are turning to another, oft-forgotten medium to connect with audiences. We talk to Leonie Rae Gasson and Melanie Frances about reclaiming the power of the humble telephone Read more »| 19 Feb 2021