Playlist

Playlist: Scottish arts on screen throughout history

7 Jul 2010

With the recent launch of Creative Scotland, the new body responsible for nurturing and promoting Scottish arts and culture, your latest Playlist column is taking a look at how Scottish arts have been represented in years gone by. If you’re an artist…

Christmas film playlist

4 Dec 2009

A quick look at your advent calendar will confirm the coming of the annual festival we know as Christmas, and what better way to celebrate than to gather the whole family around Ye Olde Computer Screen to enjoy a selection of online clips to fuel the…

PlayList

2 Apr 2009

In tune with the arrival of Nicolas Cage’s latest ‘I-can-see-the-future’ drama Knowing at our cinemas, this month’s PlayList offers to take you back to the future, or at least the retro-tinged visions of the future created to exploit the common…

Playlist

5 Feb 2009

There’s nothing quite like a good spine chiller for passing the long, dark winter nights; MR James was a master of the genre, and although his work has irregularly been translated into the mediums of film and television, the results have been uncommonly…

Film & DVD Playlist - Paul Newman

30 Oct 2008

‘What we’ve got here is failure to communicate’ was the tagline of Cool Hand Luke, 1967’s chain-gang drama starring Paul Newman, who sadly died from cancer in October. The many obituaries covering his best-known performances in hits like Butch Cassidy…

Playlist

22 May 2008

The latest PlayList invites you to investigate the past, present and future through the remarkable reality tunnels detailed in the work of French film artist Chris Marker. Marker is due to celebrate his 87th birthday this year. If you recognise the…

Playlist - free online horror movies

27 Mar 2008

Do you like scary movies? Fancy watching one on the internet? Beware! The shaky camcorder techniques of video pirates can make the latest Hollywood blockbuster look as scrambled as Cloverfield. So, rather than pick a fight with the copyright-lawman, why…

Playlist

14 Feb 2008

The huge, mildly nauseating US box office returns of the new Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus 3D concert film put PlayList in mind of some of cinema’s greatest ersatz bands and non-existent singers. So, let this faux guide help you differentiate between your…

Playlist

4 Jan 2008

2007 was one wild ride for car-mageddon lovers, with pedal-to-the-metal automobile action featuring extensively in films like The Bourne Ultimatum and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, which matched a 1969 Dodge Charger against Barry Newman’s 1970 Dodge…

Playlist

16 Jul 2007

PLAYLIST This month’s PlayList is dedicated to Mystery Science Theatre 3000, a Minneapolis television show which broadcasted commentaries on 198 obscure films between 1988 and 1999. Now uploaded onto the internet by the show’s dedicated fans…

Playlist

21 May 2007

The revolution will not be televised, it will be digitised; this issue’s PlayList bangs on your door in the middle of the night to evoke memories of the Eastern Bloc and consider what life would be like under the yolk of a repressive and uncaring…

Playlist

11 Apr 2007

The effectiveness of ‘intertainment depends on fast streaming times and high-bandwidths that allow the onscreen action to flow, and animation lends itself particularly well to the technical limitations of casual net viewing. Among all the endless animé…

Playlist

13 Mar 2007

The point of the monthly Playlist column is to gently guide you towards material you’re unlikely to find by chance. These films may currently be importable on expensive DVD, or as grainy bootlegs for hardcore connoisseurs, but they’re now available on…

PlayList - the best film downloads

PlayList

12 Feb 2007

'Intertainment’ isn’t something that requires you to be an über geek with a bit torrent jack plug in the back of your head. The streams on popular sites like You Tube, Google Video or Dailymotion don’t require complicated downloads, all you have to do…