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
Thank You For Smoking
Naylor is a great creation, a Teflon-slick mouthpiece with two failsafe defense mechanisms; the truth and the ability to beat his critics to the punch.
Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicEels: Nothing Easy 'bout being E
His vessel for disseminating this rich tapestry of keen-eyed observation and musical majesty is Eels Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicA Muso's Top 10: Head Automatica
"The jams are blowing my mind!" Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Elin Ruth – Elin Ruth
hits these shores with an album more akin to Stockton, Tennessee than Stockholm, Sweden Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicAmusement Parks On Fire - Out Of The Angeles
Out Of The Angeles' is a Eurodisney of a record Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Film
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Arriving in San Francisco, Mark Bittner is determined to make it as a poet-singer-songwriter. Failing to realise his dream, but wishing to avoid a convention... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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MusicThe Replacements - Don't You Know Who They Think they Were?
Even if this collection fails to convince, it will remain a worthy curio Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
The Long Blondes @ Mono, 28 Apr
Perhaps not for the majority Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Richard Ashcroft @ Carling Academy, 8 May
Worshippers leave with the lyric ""I can't change my mould"" falling from their mouths. Do they wish he hadn't? Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Mystery Jets @ QMU, 3 May
lures the listener in like the proverbial cheese in a mouse trap Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Lightning Bolt @ Grand Ole Opry
like sperm flocking to an egg Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Film
Mission: Impossible III
One of the best action films seen on the big screen for many a year. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Film
Brick
This grittily shot, sharply written flick is slicker than most Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
The Easy Gramophone - June
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Camera Obscura - Ready To Be Heartbroken
"Our fans are dedicated and faithful. They're not 'one night stand' fans. 'I'm going to love you 'till the dying day.' That sort of fan." Read more »| 15 Jun 2006