Feature

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

RSS feedWhat is this?
Lars Von Trier on his latest film 'Antichrist'

Antichrist - Lars Von Trier interview

23 Jul 2009

Lars Von Trier makes films that defy consensus. He is a showman provocateur in search of a reaction, however extreme. The shrugged shoulders of indifference would be his definition of failure. With this in mind, Von Trier can only have been delighted…

True Blood

True Blood

9 Jul 2009

The TV schedules have succumbed to a plague of bloodsucking parasites ever since Buffy staked her first vampire. But have vamps lost their bite? True Blood puts the allegorical power back into the fangs of the undead, and triumphs over the genre’s other…

Stadium Gigs

Stadium rock in Scotland 2009

11 Jun 2009

Mark Robertson gets out his giant foam finger and keeps his fingers crossed that his topless torso turns up on the big screens as we look at just what this summer’s massive outdoor shows have to offer.

EIFF - Roger Corman

EIFF 2009 - Roger Corman

11 Jun 2009

The Hollywood legend Roger Corman is guest of honour at the 63rd EIFF, which is this year hosting a very welcome retrospective dedicated to the man they rightly call the king of the Bs. Given the 83-year-old auteur has written, directed and/or produced…

EIFF - Moon

EIFF 2009 - Moon

11 Jun 2009

When Duncan Jones, aka Zowie Bowie, David’s son, premiered his film-directing debut, Moon, at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the critical reception to his cerebral science fiction thriller was ecstatic. Reviewers wasted no time in comparing Moon…

Kate Nash

Preview 2009 - Albums

8 Jan 2009

The start of ‘09 sees a hip hop war brewing, with new records by some of the genre’s heaviest hitters landing on the streets. First we’ve got to survive January, though, and what more uplifting way than with Bruce Springsteen ’s Working on a Dream?

Ewan Morrison

Preview 2009 - Books

8 Jan 2009

It’s another hot year for the Scottish contingent with Denise Mina , Irvine Welsh and Ewan Morrison all bringing out books (July) although arguably the country’s most intriguing 2009 publication comes from Dundee debutant Gavin Bain . California…

Slumdog Millionaire

Preview 2009 - Danny Boyle

8 Jan 2009

It’s not uncommon for the films that turn out to be the best of any given year to have been released at the beginning of that year. Think of Lust, Caution, No Country for Old Men, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Juno and There Will be Blood – all…

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Preview 2009 - Film

8 Jan 2009

There are three years to go until the end of the world, according to Mayan prophecies and it seems filmmakers can’t stop looking back to look forward. Let’s start at the beginning of the year when the 1978 assassination of Harvey Milk, civil rights…

The Phantom Band

Preview 2009 - Local talent

8 Jan 2009

MUSIC: The Phantom Band We’ve been tipping this Glasgow sextet, who make what’s most succinctly described as ‘experimental krautrock’, for greatness for a wee while now. Their debut album Checkmate Savage lands in late January, fresh off the Chemikal…

Girls Aloud

Preview 2009 - Pop Music

8 Jan 2009

‘Pop is back!’, Same Difference exclaim in typically camp fashion on the advert for their not-so-innovatively-titled debut, erm, Pop. Simon Cowell’s karaoke factory might not be the best example of it, but their statement is bang on. Strictly speaking…

Nokia N97

Preview 2009 - Technology

8 Jan 2009

If 2008 was anything to go by, 2009 should bring many great techy things to our lives. Firefox 3 made everything easier and better as domestic broadband got cheaper and faster. The house of innovation that is Google will be hard pushed in 2009 to better…

Be Near Me

Preview 2009 - Theatre

8 Jan 2009

Recession? What recession? If you believe the old adage that entertainment thrives in hard times (proven by the rise of the cinema in the austere 30s) surely theatre, which offers escape into alternative worlds, is the ideal diversion from dreary…

Paul Kitching

Preview 2009 - Food

8 Jan 2009

There’s a general expectation that we’ll be reporting on closures rather than openings in 2009, but don’t be so sure. Judging by the stream of new places in the last few months – far outweighing the number of farewells – doom and gloom clearly isn’t on…

Alex Salmond

Homecoming Scotland: Salmond Swims Home

1 Dec 2008

Compared with the Scottish rebel leaders of old, Alex Salmond is a pussycat. William Wallace carried a sword the size of a man; Robert the Bruce was so tough that he wanted his heart cut out after his death, to be taken on a crusade, but Big 'Eck, as…

Robert Burns

Robert Burns: Rampant Robbie

1 Dec 2008

Seducer, sex machine, womaniser, charmer, bragger and a bit of a bastard. Scotland’s national poet, Rabbie Burns, was a loose-limbed man with one hell of a sex drive. His love life reads like something from a daytime TV show. There are illegitimate…

Cape Wrath Challenge

Homecoming Scotland: Making the Most of it

1 Dec 2008

The Gathering 2009 The centrepiece of the year's celebrations, The Gathering is the largest clan meeting in history. Six thousand flights from America to Scotland have already been snapped up and demand is so high that more are being specially…

The Cathouse

Clubbing birthdays

13 Nov 2008

Three Scottish clubbing institutions hit big milestones this month: rock club The Cathouse is 18, the Art School’s regular soul night Divine is 18, and Slam’s techno hoedown Pressure is 10. We asked three regular punters just why they love these clubs…

Inside Deep Throat

Porn in the movies

13 Nov 2008

Platonic friends Zack and Miri one day decide that in the current economic climate the only way to diminish their respective personal debts is to make a pornographic film together, but the world of amateur porno filmmaking is not as easy as it seems. So…

TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio

13 Nov 2008

Three years ago the alternative music industry seemed determined to talk itself into a coma. You couldn’t open a magazine or turn on the radio without suffering some whinging executive complaining about the internet killing music. Fans who downloaded…

Pulp

TV on the Radio - Time for heroes?

13 Nov 2008

Pulp Time to hit big: 12 years Languishing in the back streets of Sheffield and the toilet circuit for almost a decade before Britpop, multiple Mercury nominations and ‘Disco 2000’. Biffy Clyro Time to hit big: nine years In the time they…

Dead Set - Charlie Brooker

Dead Set - Charlie Brooker

16 Oct 2008

In George A Romero’s seminal 1980 horror Dawn of the Dead, a group of mismatched survivors of the zombie apocalypse take shelter in a deserted mall. Famously, the film is Romero’s thinly veiled up-yours to consumerist Western society, to the ‘zombies…

Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis

16 Oct 2008

At the heart of the American dream is the ability to reinvent yourself, the idea that you can start again and do anything you set your mind to. Jenny Lewis is the embodiment of that optimistic ethos. So far in her 32 years on the planet, Lewis has…

Halloween Special - Events

Halloween Special - Events

16 Oct 2008

Halloween events highlights - Our Ladies of Sorrow, Cheesecake – Night of the Living Tease, Ghostly Goings On, National Tell a Story Day: Halloween Tales, Halloween Myth and Magic, Supernatural History Tours, City of the Dead Hallowe’en Festival, Samhuinn

Halloween Special - Fancy Dress

Halloween Special - Fancy Dress

16 Oct 2008

Across in the capital, you cannot go wrong with a jaunt to Armstrongs (0131 220 5557). Lurking in the shadows of Edinburgh Castle, and in an area known for its public hanging and body snatching in days gone by, this vintage clothing emporium has the…

Found 90 articles.

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.