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Doctor Who - Space Oddity

19 Mar 2009

In four years time Doctor Who will be 50 years old, but still it remains one of the most popular and imagination-grabbing shows on television. While the best of British actors and television writers are lining up to work on it, the series’ first…

Caddyshack

In a League of Their Own - the best sports movies ever

19 Mar 2009

The release this month of controversial documentary Tyson and Michael Sheen football drama The Damned Utd reminded us just how unreliable the sports movie can be. So here, in no particular order, are some gold medal contenders and some first round exits

Rocky V

Own Goal - the worst sports movies ever

19 Mar 2009

Legolas the boxer? Sexing up carpet bowls? You’ve got to be kidding. Herein lie some of the worst sports movies ever.

Tyson

Tyson

(4 stars)19 Mar 2009

DOCUMENTARY James Toback’s friendship with Mike Tyson first surfaced publicly when in 1999 the former heavyweight champion of the world made an unintentionally hilarious cameo in the director’s 1999 race drama Black and White. This appearance came a…

Ross Noble - Things Change

Ross Noble - Things Change

19 Mar 2009

Despite just losing his farm in Australia to the recent bush fires and flying into the UK on the morning of this interview, Ross Noble maintains he’s completely primed for questioning. ‘Oh, wait, I’ve put too much pressure on myself,’ the Geordie comic…

Milton Jackson

Milton Jackson

19 Mar 2009

He’s a young Scottish producer signed to a respectable national label, who’s getting attention in the pages of Mixmag and on dancefloors around the world, but just don’t, whatever you do, go proclaiming Milton Jackson to be ‘the new Mylo’. Or ‘the new…

Benjamin Obler - Javascotia

Benjamin Obler - Javascotia

19 Mar 2009

It may be hard to recall now, but there was a time when coffee shops weren’t over-running the world, and certainly hadn’t even gained a foothold in Scotland. When Benjamin Obler travelled from his native Minnesota in 1994 to study Scottish Literature on…

Be Near Me

Be Near Me

19 Mar 2009

The story of a priest who stirs up a riot of anti-Catholic feeling in a Protestant Ayrshire town after a drunken fumble with a teenage boy might not instantly sound like it would travel well outside the west of Scotland or Ireland. But, since its…

Turner & Italy

Turner & Italy

19 Mar 2009

An exhibition of paintings by JMW Turner may seem a time-worn prospect, but the National Galleries are offering a new take on the man and his work. ‘Turner came to Scotland six times, but he visited Italy on seven occasions,’ says Christopher Baker…

Genova - Crosstown traffic

Genova - Crosstown traffic

19 Mar 2009

Let’s talk about cities. Those Rousseau-ian abysses, those human zoos, those deserts of loneliness. The modern city and cinema have always had a special relationship, one that after years of abuse has been reduced to hand gestures and cliché. The…

Spotify

Spotify - Electric dreams

19 Mar 2009

When users’ initial response to a new piece of software is a disbelieving ‘This is free?’, it’s worth installing. Although Spotify launched last year, it was invitation only until last month. Now everyone’s free to join, and they have been, with the…

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

19 Mar 2009

‘I was quite surprised, really,’ remarks pop’s greatest deadpan front-man, Neil Tennant, a propos the Pet Shop Boys’ recent Outstanding Contribution to Music Brit Award. ‘I thought it was nice of the industry to give it to us,’ he concurs with a shrug.

Place Project

Place Project

19 Mar 2009

The biggest difference between Edinburgh and Glasgow’s cultural scenes can be located right down at the grassroots. While Glasgow has a plethora of places like Mono, The Arches, CCA and the Art School – centralised hubs where emergent artists, musicians…

Il Divo

Il Divo

(4 stars)19 Mar 2009

BIOPIC/DRAMA With Il Divo, the Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (The Consequences of Love, The Family Friend) has spectacularly reinvented the genre of the political biopic. The subject of this darkly amusing and often exhilarating film is…

Instal 09

Instal 09

19 Mar 2009

PREVIEW A church organ sounding the course of the stars, a cello being turned to dust, a sound poet voicing typewriter symbols, long stretches of almost nothing … Instal has been expanding the way we listen since its inception in 2002, building a…

The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid

(3 stars)19 Mar 2009

DRAMA/REPORTAGE Marrying Britain’s honourable tradition of dystopian sci-fi (The War of the Worlds, Brave New World, 1984) with the eco documentary form (A Crude Awakening, An Inconvenient Truth, The 11th Hour), Franny McLibel Armstrong’s film is an…

The Red Well

The Red Well

19 Mar 2009

PREVIEW Loud or quiet, why choose? The best rock bands manage to combine ear-shredding wig-outs with moments of blissful acoustic gentility – and so it is with The Red Well. The Edinburgh-based quartet are part of Fife’s Fence Collective, but stand…

Joel Frahm & Michael Janisch Quintet

Joel Frahm & Michael Janisch Quintet

19 Mar 2009

This quintet is led by two Americans, one of whom is likely to be more familiar than the other to audiences in these parts. Bassist Michael Janisch has been based in London for a while now, and has collaborated with a number of Scottish musicians…

Genova

Genova

(4 stars)19 Mar 2009

MYSTERY/DRAMA With his latest work, filmmaker Michael Winterbottom doffs his cap to the literature of mystery, coincidence and suggestion exemplified in the short stories of WW Jacobs (The Monkey’s Paw), Saki and Daphne Du Maurier. Following the…

The Country Teasers

The Country Teasers

(4 stars)19 Mar 2009

ART NOISE The gig finishes with a note of despondent appreciation. ‘Thank you,’ says Ben Wallers, also known as The Rebel, one third of The Teasers and a son of St Albans who settled in Edinburgh for a few years way back when. ‘Thank you. That’s the…

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

(5 stars)19 Mar 2009

FOLK ROCK When Anglophile Oregon native Colin Meloy bills his band’s fifth album as ‘an odd bond between the music of British folk revival and classic metal’ he’s only telling half the story. Sonically, The Hazards of Love rocks like Sabbath and…

Boombox

Boombox

19 Mar 2009

Rather appropriately to celebrate two years supplying upfront house and trance Boombox are celebrating with two parties for their second birthday. On 20 Mar three man production team Above & Beyond (pictured) supply the uplifting trance followed a week…

Profile - Harmonic 313 aka Mark Pritchard

Profile - Harmonic 313 aka Mark Pritchard

19 Mar 2009

Name: Harmonic 313, aka Mark Pritchard. Where have I heard that name? In the credits on any of two-dozen different electronic projects during the last 20 years. However, Pritchard always records under aliases (he’s had a whopping 23 at the last…

Musika Downtown

Musika Downtown

19 Mar 2009

HOUSE Musika step it up a notch this month as they spread their love over Ocean Terminal. Usually found in the Liquid Room until the recent fire ousted them (and currently making a home at Faith on a monthly basis), once in a while Musika ups sticks…

Riddim Tuffa

Riddim Tuffa

19 Mar 2009

DRUM & BASS/DUBSTEP/REGGAE Riddim Tuffa has been steadily gathering momentum since moving to the GRV in 2008. Their music policy has its roots in reggae but happily embraces all the myriad forms it has inspired, with ragga, jungle and dubstep…

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