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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…

Exposure - Jonathan Coulton

Exposure - Jonathan Coulton

16 Oct 2008

From his secret lair in Brooklyn, New York, evil genius Jonathan Coulton has been hatching plans for world domination since 2005. His hook-filled fuzz-rock anthems about zombies, Tom Cruise, the Mandelbrot set and cyborg girlfriends have won him a…

The Cream of Tank Girl

Jamie Hewlett & Alan Martin - The Cream of Tank Girl

(4 stars)16 Oct 2008

ART For Tank Girl fans, this is the book you’ve been waiting for; a glossy retrospective covering her anarchic antics from 1988 until today, including an honest account of her Hollywood hell (neither writer Alan Martin or artist Jamie Hewlett liked…

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…

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…

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

16 Oct 2008

CLASSIC Shakespeare’s enduring tale of star-crossed lovers and warring families has benefited from numerous treatments down the centuries, from faithful period settings to the gland-snapping musical adaptation of West Side Story and the exhilarating…

Lee Evans

5 Things you might not know about - Lee Evans

16 Oct 2008

1 Before he became a comedic superstar, Lee Evans played drums in a punk band all-too aptly called The Forgotten Five and was assistant to a spiritualist window dresser in Southend. 2 In 1993, the lad who left school when he could barely read won…

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…

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…

Port O’Brien

Port O’Brien

16 Oct 2008

Growing up in California's Bay Area, Van Pierszalowski and Cambria Goodwin couldn't help but be influenced by the sea. There's a definite maritime air to their debut album All We Could Do Was Sing, a lush and uplifting indie folk medley, tying together…

Drums of Death

Drums of Death

16 Oct 2008

Half grimy techno maverick, half supervillain Drums of Death (aka Colin Bailey) is on the brink of becoming Scotland’s latest electronica superstar. Perhaps too warped to storm the charts like Mylo or Calvin Harris, having growing up on a diet of…

Blue

Blue

16 Oct 2008

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE While its existence in any sort of visual medium is an artistic victory, the ambition of Derek Jarman’s Blue becomes most apparent when you discover that he drummed up money for the film by staging it as a series of live…

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…

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…

Sister Corita: Power Up

Sister Corita: Power Up

(4 stars)16 Oct 2008

PRINTS If a sign points ‘Left!’, which way do you jump? For Sister Corita, radical 60s poster-maker and nun, the answer was obvious. This small exhibition, tucked away upstairs above the DCA bookshop, displays 15 of her bright, brash but not…

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…

Simon Baker - Close-Up

Simon Baker - Close-Up

16 Oct 2008

‘I think you can probably see this exhibition on two levels,’ says Simon Baker, co-curator of Close-Up, a new show exploring the history of close-up photography. ‘There’s the obvious and rather marvellous aspect suggested by the scenes before us, which…

Last word: Chesney Hawkes

Last word: Chesney Hawkes

16 Oct 2008

The boyish pop charmer has come a long way since he topped the charts with ‘The One and Only’. Here, the Manilow-inspired father of three explains his love of raw fish and transatlantic upgrades.

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…

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…

Scott Agnew

Scott Agnew

16 Oct 2008

STAND-UP You’d imagine that when an act gets crowned the brand new Scottish Comedian of the Year that the offers would flood in. Well, they certainly have for Scott Agnew who scooped the award at the end of September in a closely fought tussle with…

Andrew Anthony - The Fallout

Andrew Anthony - The Fallout

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

SOCIAL MEMOIR In 2001, Andrew Anthony was just another member of the liberal-left intelligentsia, dutifully filing his anti-conservative copy to The Observer and Guardian. Then a pair of planes swung into the World Trade Center and the belief systems…

Gareth Hoskins Architects

Gareth Hoskins Architects

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

ARCHITECTURE For years, the temporary architecture exhibits at the Lighthouse always seemed to fall a little flat, too often burdened with fancy interactive displays, with too much insider jargon for the layman and too broad a sweep for the expert.

Horrid Henry

Horrid Henry

16 Oct 2008

STAGE ADAPTATION For parents he’s a reassuring reminder that at least their children aren’t that bad. While for kids, his cheeky problem solving is aspirational – something they’d do themselves if only they could get away with it. Francesca Simon’s…

The Lesson

The Lesson

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

MODERN CLASSIC Ionesco’s absurdist classic continues to feel relevant because it chips away at our feeling that something of ourselves remains unexpressed beneath the world of manners, and the arcane language that surrounds it. In Gerry Mulgrew’s…

Suddenly Last Summer

Suddenly Last Summer

16 Oct 2008

Andy Arnold directs this revival of Tennessee Williams’ shocking one-act play about the terrifying Violet Venable’s attempts to have her niece lobotomised in order to prevent her revealing the truth about her son Sebastian’s sexual proclivities. The…

Scottish Ballet

Scottish Ballet to host costume sale

16 Oct 2008

Scottish Ballet will host a costume sale later this month featuring clothing, headdresses and accessories from over 30 years of the Ballet company’s productions. Costumes on sale will include everything from the ‘Ooh la la’ French Mademoiselles from…

The Shee

The Shee

16 Oct 2008

Fiddler Shona Mooney (2006 BBC Scottish Traditional Young Musician of the Year) leads this all female folk group for a unique take on Scottish folk, Gaelic song, bluegrass and ‘frisky instrumentals’. Launching their debut album A Different Season with a…

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

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…

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 - 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…

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…

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…

The Caretaker

The Caretaker

16 Oct 2008

CLASSIC Directing a classic Harold Pinter play is, says Philip Breen, like staging an opera, so exactly is it written. ‘Every pause is written for a reason and he’s always right,’ says the director, returning to the Citz after his successes with…

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…

Young@Heart

Young@Heart

(5 stars)16 Oct 2008

DOCUMENTARY In Western society we feel awkward and ashamed about the elderly. Seeing an OAP struggling down the street causes us to experience sympathy for their plight and terror that we are witnessing a glimpse of our own fragile futures. But in…

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…

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…

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…

Sly & Robbie with Amp Fiddler - Inspiration Information 1

Sly & Robbie with Amp Fiddler - Inspiration Information 1

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

SOUL Purveyors of fine music compilations, Strut have branched out into fresh studio recordings by pairing up acclaimed artists for exclusive five-day sessions. In this first instalment former Funkadelician and contemporary smooth soul rambler Amp…

Fortified Sessions

Fortified Sessions

16 Oct 2008

‘It’s great how fast dubstep has grown in the last couple of years,’ says Arthur ‘Artwork’ Smith, ‘but people don’t realise that it’s been going since 2001, and that lots of people have been making this music for that long. Every so often someone will…

Days Like This

Scottish Book Trust - Days Like This

16 Oct 2008

Refining that old platitude that everyone’s got a novel in them, the Scottish Book Trust launched their Days Like This project earlier this year, looking for ordinary people’s stories of their extraordinary days. ‘Days Like This is really about…

Gareth Sommerville

Ultragroove

16 Oct 2008

HOUSE ‘We had 500 people in for Joey Negro on Saturday,’ beams Ultragroove’s promoter and resident DJ Gareth Sommerville, ‘which made it the biggest club in town by some way.’ He’s justifiably proud, because Ultragroove has become one of Scotland’s…

Cosmo Landesman - Starstruck

Cosmo Landesman - Starstruck

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

SHOWBIZ MEMOIR Fran and Jay Landesman sound like a tough set of parents. She a poet and jazz singer, he a producer and comedian. Together they fled the US due to a perceived lack of success, viewing Swinging 60s London as a kinder, less competitive…

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