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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Film
Rescue Dawn
Herzog and Bale: a decent combination. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Film
Planet Terror
Every bit as much fun as Death Proof. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Film
Death at a Funeral
Effortlessly hilarious and genuinely touching. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Film
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson – great or grate?Bottle RocketLaura: Anderson's predilection for off-centre, inventive whimsy is clear from his first feature, a goofy, def... Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Film
Rich Tea
Does Wes Anderson deserve the accusations of self-indulgent style over substance?
Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
MusicReverbaphon - Here Comes Everyone
Getting postmodern Read more »| 07 Nov 2007
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Music
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
The definitive blueprint for crossing black metal with drill'n'bass Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Music
Malcolm Middleton @ The Liquid Room
Now apart, Middleton and Moffat are proving just as irrepressible as they were as a duo Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Music
Swimmer One
SF: Sometimes you've got to get your hands dirty if you want the job doing properly, so Swimmer One tell Billy Hamilton Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Music
Unsane @ Nice 'n' Sleazy
Quite simply the heaviest, angriest blues band on earth. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Music
Hot Hot Heat - Luke who's talking
I think some of the best ideas come to you at five o'clock in the morning when you're laying in a ditch in Italy, you know? Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Music
From Akron/Family with love
People are deciding that we're all doing lots of drugs or that we're crazy religious types. - Matt Seaton Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Music
The Hives - Back to Black (And White)
SF: Remember The Hives? Your new favourite band in 2002 have returned, but don't expect just more of the same, as guitarist Vigilante Carlstom tells Nick Mitchell.
PQ:""We're just a black and white rock 'n' roll band."" Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Comedy
Club profile - quick-fire Q & A with Bruce Fummey
Comedian/ organiser Bruce Fummey gives us the skinny on the comedy scene north of the Tay. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Comedy
Scottish Comedian of the Year 2007 final
A theme of the night, quite rightly, was critic-baiting. The large audience would periodically boo the X Factor-style judging panel. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007