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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…

Maximum exposure

Maximum exposure

16 Oct 2008

The List are joining forces with Glasgow venue The Barfly in launching a new live music event this month. The List Exposure Night will be a regular monthly live music event showcasing the best new and emerging music from near and far. The line-up of the…

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…

Espookio

Halloween Special - Halloween clubbing

16 Oct 2008

First up, annual Optimo (Espookio) , one of Glasgow’s most enduring terror-filled dress-up nights, which is appearing on both coasts this month, commandeering Cabaret Voltaire for its first Edinburgh fright fest (Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Sat 25 Oct…

Halloween Special - Halloween Origins

Halloween Special - Halloween Origins

16 Oct 2008

The war waged by Halloween on its Celtic relative, Samhuinn, has virtually erased the ancient festival from the public consciousness. In the United States, where All Hallows Eve has become a $2.5 billion industry, the most prominent pop cultural…

Dracula

Halloween Special - Horror Movies

16 Oct 2008

It’s Halloween, so it must be time for the latest instalment in the most extreme survival horror series out there: Saw V. More than a simple gorefest, there’s a cruel intelligence at play with its villain, Jigsaw, the latest in a long line of horror…

Mary Rose

Halloween Special - Mary Rose

16 Oct 2008

It’s often seen as an ill omen if a play of some antiquity is seldom revived. Yet, in the case of JM Barrie’s seldom seen play Mary Rose, this suspicion might not be justified. Certainly, in the year of its release, the play was well received…

Taste Test - Halloween vegetables

Taste test - Halloween vegetables

16 Oct 2008

Pumpkin Maybe it’s the colour or maybe it’s the size but pumpkins are becoming demonised as the embodiment of America’s crass commercialisation of Halloween. It’s not even that they’re imported: most of those in the shops are British grown. Makes for…

Al Green

Al Green

16 Oct 2008

It’s a sad fact that however unstoppable an ageing artist was at the top of their game, few can hope to make music that really matters in their golden years, save for reminding everyone they’re still alive. Al Green comes to Glasgow this fortnight and…

Bobo Stenson Trio

5 Reasons To Go See - Bobo Stenson Trio

16 Oct 2008

1 Bobo is a European jazz great The Swedish pianist stands squarely alongside any of the major names in world jazz that he has worked with over the years, including the likes of Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko and Charles Lloyd. 2 Live performance…

André Gingras - Rambert Dance Company

André Gingras - Rambert Dance Company

16 Oct 2008

If you’ve ever watched children charge around a soft play centre, you’ll know how joyful, liberating and downright fun it looks. If only we could shrink ourselves small enough to join in. Well, the dancers at Rambert don’t need to, because Canadian…

Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

THRILLER/COMEDY Modern idiocy and bleak humour are the order of the day in the Coen’s latest – a reworking (conscious or otherwise) of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of An Author. Foul-mouthed CIA analyst Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich…

Charles Burns - Fear(s) of the Dark

Charles Burns - Fear(s) of the Dark

16 Oct 2008

The wildly imaginative and scary animated French portmanteau horror movie Fear(s) of the Dark was made by six European and American cartoonists working with professional animators. The most notable of those cartoonists is Charles Burns, who is a legend…

Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

THRILLER Reuniting the talent from last year’s sleeper hit Disturbia and featuring a similar surveillance theme, Eagle Eye is a busy conspiracy thriller featuring manboy-of-the-moment Shia LaBoeuf and directed by DJ Caruso. With two major franchises…

Fear(s) of the Dark

Fear(s) of the Dark

(4 stars)16 Oct 2008

ANIMATION/MYSTERY The Gallic term ‘outre’, meaning beyond or excessive, perfectly describes this imaginatively conceived and immaculately executed French language portmanteau horror. Much of its impact is derived from its unique nature: the…

Ghost Town

Ghost Town

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

COMEDY/ROMANCE Middle-aged ‘smock-wearing tooth jockey’ (dentist) Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a hateful runt of a man. He lives a life as contained as it is misanthropic. After going into hospital for an endoscopy, Bertram starts to see dead…

Igor

Igor

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

ANIMATION/COMEDY It’s a tough life for hunchbacked assistants of mad scientists. Igor (voiced by John Cusack) ekes out his precarious existence as humble servant to the sinister Dr Glickenstein (John Cleese), an evil genius set on winning the annual…

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

(5 stars)16 Oct 2008

MUSICAL There are several factors that separate Mary Poppins from the average musical, but the main one is there are no weak links. No stars bussed in purely to put bums on seats, dragging down the standard with weak vocals. No second division set…

Moonwalking

Moonwalking

16 Oct 2008

NEW PLAY Her play clocks in at less than an hour and will be performed in front of an audience eating their lunch, but you can’t fault Nicola Wilson for ambition. Moonwalking, part of Oran Mor’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint season, considers nothing less…

Mum Heroin and Me

Mum Heroin and Me

(4 stars)16 Oct 2008

DOCUMENTARY A loving mother is driving her daughter into town for a special 21st birthday treat. In between a massage and hairdresser appointment, Hannah asks her mum to make a quick stop. But she’s not popping to the shops for a chocolate bar or a…

No Age

No Age

16 Oct 2008

ROCK Reckon DIY is dead? No Age beg to differ. The noisy art punk duo have been kicking up a stink on the LA music scene since 2005, curating exhibitions, designing clothes, booking shows, making films, videos and zines and, most excitingly, coming…

Marshall Law

Pat Mills

16 Oct 2008

If you have even a passing interest in British comics, chances are you’ll have read some work by Pat Mills. Despite his legendary status inventing characters like Slaine the Barbarian, Nemesis the Warlock and ABC Warriors, he actually started out…

Peter Pretsell

Peter Pretsell

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

PRINTS AND PAINTINGS There’s a light-hearted sense of joy and goodwill in these two parallel exhibitions celebrating the four-decade output of the late Peter Pretsell, who was both student and lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art and, appropriately…

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