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7 May 2024
Yes because they work
Antibiotics have stopped us looking at other ways of managing infection Hilary
7 May 2024
Dr Hilary Cass says the issue of puberty blockers has become "almost totemic".
"It has stopped us looking at other ways of managing young people's distress..."
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30 Jan 2024
"Changes in tempo might remind you of Hunky Dory, but the literary themes pick up where Blackstar left off – songs for the end."
AOTM: Read @Lew_Rob_'s ★★★★★ review of PRELUDE TO ECSTASY, @lastdinnerparty's debut album - out Friday
theskinny.co.uk/music/review… @islandrecordsuk
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
8 Dec 2023
Our Film of the Year is a stunning piece of work; it pulls all the threads of the year together; it's a whole bunch of films combined into one.
What am I talking about? @JamieDunnEsq and @lew_rob_ explain on The Cineskinny podcast...
LISTEN: pod.link/thecineskinny
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17 Aug 2023
Bold move of Fide to ban trans women from their tournaments when a big part of chess is pieces turning into queens
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
10 Aug 2023
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“Her layered vocals are abstract, almost occluded by the cosmic ambience that gives this album its setting of a stranger world…”
Thanks to @Tallah at @theskinnymag for the lovely review of @hellosulci “Before The Echo” in this months magazine.
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
8 Aug 2023
Big love to The Skinny (@theskinnymag) for featuring Vilde (@thomasvilde) and his wonderful new album 'Hope' in their round-up for August. Read online below, and also available in the print edition:
theskinny.co.uk/music/new-mu…
'Hope' is out next Friday, August 18th
✏️ @Lew_Rob_
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
12 Jul 2023
On the new episode of the Cineskinny, @JamieDunnEsq & @anahitrooz tell @ptrsmpsn & @Lew_Rob_ their thoughts on INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY, and the thrilling hunt for a treasure as legendary as Pythagoras' pencil case, or Aristotle's Balenciagas
open.spotify.com/episode/3lF…
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
8 Jun 2023
It's a bare-bones team on the @thecineskinny podcast this week with @ptrsmpsn and @anahitrooz both MIA, but @Lew_Rob_ and @JamieDunnEsq are here reviewing #AcrossTheSpiderVerse and Chevalier. Take a listen: pod.link/thecineskinny/episo…
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
19 May 2023
On this week's @thecineskinny podcast, we're celebrating 40 years of Local Hero, and 40 years of Burt Lancaster living out the 'No, I Don't Think I Will' meme.
SPOTIFY: tinyurl.com/cineskinnylocalh…
APPLE: tinyurl.com/cineskinnylocalh…
@CameoCinema @glasgowfilm @Lew_Rob_ @ptrsmpsn
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
31 Mar 2023
"Challenging any old-school misgivings you might have about how stuffy strings can be...sits between avant-garde disco and ambient mania"
@LigetiQuartet x @AnnaHMeredith 'Nuc' (@MercuryKX) is in @theskinnymag Scottish New Music Round-up @Lew_Rob_
theskinny.co.uk/music/new-mu…
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27 Mar 2023
Can Humza Yousaf’s first act be to ban Kate Forbes from ever getting married
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
3 Mar 2023
It's a good month for the Scottish music scene, with releases by @brownbearband, @Steg_G @itslooroll, @AliRobertsMusic, and the debut album by @LichenSlow
@Lew_Rob_ explores all this and more in our new music round-up for March!
theskinny.co.uk/music/new-mu…
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
11 Jan 2023
To commemorate one year of the Cineskinny, we went through 2022 and handed out some dubious awards to the films we loved
@JamieDunnEsq, @anahitrooz, @ptrsmpsn & @Lew_Rob_ give BONES AND ALL 'sexiest moment in cinema...Before getting a little sidetracked.
open.spotify.com/episode/5CN…
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20 Dec 2022
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared traumatises a whole new demographic with its Channel 4 adaptation!
20 Dec 2022
From corporate satire to kitchen drama to horrifyingly deadpan comedy, our 10 favourite TV shows of 2022
theskinny.co.uk/tv-radio/opi… @roryhasopinions @CarmenChloie @JamieDunnEsq @Lew_Rob_ @jslaterwilliams @anahitrooz @OneBigWiggle
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
15 Dec 2022
This week on The Cineskinny, it's FILMS OF THE YEAR time!
@Lew_Rob_ @JamieDunnEsq @anahitrooz @ptrsmpsn on Nope, Licorice Pizza, Happening, Aftersun more...
well, 6 more... it's a 'top ten'-type situation... you get the gist
open.spotify.com/episode/5RE…
ALT Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio in Aftersun
ALT Anamaria Vartolomei in Happening.
ALT Cooper Hoffman in Licorice Pizza.
ALT Daniel Kaluuya in Nope
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
1 Dec 2022
It's 1 December, so of course The Cineskinny podcast has gone full *Christmas Mode*
@jamiedunnesq @Lew_Rob_ @anahitrooz and @ptrsmpsn on eight of their festive favourites, from Santa origin stories to Gremlins to people Getting Mail
LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/0E1…
ALT Still from Anna and the Apocalypse. A group of school pupils dance on tables, with Christmas decorations hanging from the walls.
ALT A still from Klaus. Animated characters walk down a narrow street through a crowd of people.
ALT A group of Gremlins holding books, standing in a snowy garden.
ALT Tom Hanks looks over Meg Ryan's shoulder, in a still from the film You've Got Mail.
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Ellie Robertson retweeted
4 Nov 2022
On this week's Cineskinny, @Lew_Rob_ and @anahitrooz dislike Billy Eichner's new romcom #BrosMovie... and then @jamiedunnesq enters the chat
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3w0…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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31 Oct 2022
At the risk of confusing my credibility as a queer writer, I was quite harsh on Bros.
The inclusive cast is applaudable, but from inception, it was doomed to fail in delivering a meaningful, personal queer story, bc it borrows all its cliches from the patriarchal canon of Romcoms
28 Oct 2022
'A love story so cliché it makes Love, Simon look like The Rocky Horror Picture Show'
@Lew_Rob_ on Bros, in cinemas this weekend
theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel…
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30 Oct 2022
A while back I actually predicted the big red streaming site would struggle to make The Witcher last for this very reason
Check it out!
theskinny.co.uk/tv-radio/fea…
‘The Witcher’ Season 4 Recasts Geralt of Rivia With Liam Hemsworth, Henry Cavill to Exit Series bit.ly/3DisNIR
30 Oct 2022
Make sure you see Triangle of Sadness before someone (And by someone I mean us) spoils it for you!
27 Oct 2022
Ruben Östlund's TRIANGLE OF SADNESS is out this weekend...
@anahitrooz @JamieDunnEsq and @Lew_Rob_ discuss the film on the latest Cineskinny podcast; despite *someone's* best efforts, no spoilers...
LISTEN (from 27:45): open.spotify.com/episode/5RX…
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