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
Glasgow Film News: June 2006
Classics old and new in the West End Festival film line-up, and the return of an old friend to the GFT. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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.
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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 -
MusicElin 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
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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 -
Music
The 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