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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Music
Binary Zero - From Here You Can See Everything
Binary Zero prove here that having a good name does not mean you automatically create good music. Whilst the main rhythms and solid basslines are initially p... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Music
Moguai - I Am X
Club compilations are very much a hit and miss affair, too often dominated by record companies looking for a quick cash-in. This is an honourable exception;... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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Craig David - Officially Yours
This is being hailed as David’s return to form [WTF? Can I get a rewind? Ed]. That’s not to imply that his recent releases have been bad in any ... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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Rock Ness 2008 @ Dores, 7-8 Jun
You stand more chance of seeing Nessie in the zoo than you do a decent band at Rock Ness 2008 Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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jOnO - Sentimental Anarchist
If it's easy to suspect but difficult to prove that many singer-songwriters disguise a lack of insight with poetic or verbose lyricism, that's not an allegat... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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Scarlet Blonde - There Is No Black & White
This is without doubt one of the most hyperactive records of recent times. Nary a second after hitting play, your ears are assaulted by a blitz of b... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008
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Joan As Police Woman @ Classic Grand, 10 Jun
On record, there’s a hark of genius about Wasser, but for all of her talent, tonight doesn’t burn quite as brightly as it should have Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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Tokyo Police Club @ King Tut's, 10 Jun
Tokyo Police Club lead a transatlantic assault on King Tut's Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust
stuck, nipple deep, in MOR hell Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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Sonny J - Disastro
Another of the MySpace generation of success stories, Sonny J is one of the few to successfully make it from the basements of social networking to major labe... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Film
The Godfather Trilogy
It’s unlikely that’s there’s much to be added to the critical evaluation of the Godfather trilogy: two of the greatest films ever made plus... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Film
Dirty Harry Complete Special Edition Collection
Clint Eastwood returned to America after his Italian westerns and went from star to superstar in 1971 with his first outing as the borderline psychotic San F... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
Film
Intimate Enemies
The Algerian war of independence is the setting for this episodic ‘soldier’s story’ drama, which follows the fates of an idealistic lieuten... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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Colossus: The Forbin Project
Joseph Sargent’s 1970 computer-gone-amok thriller bears all the hallmarks of vintage seventies sci-fi. Cold War paranoia, white polyes... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008 -
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The Andrzej Wajda War Trilogy
Bringing together three seminal early works from Andrzej Wajda, father figure of Polish cinema, this loosely connected ‘War Trilogy’ chronicles t... Read more »| 16 Jun 2008