Film | DVD Review
Michael Gillespie: Invaluable for students of sixties counter-culture, this intimate and controversial collection of documentaries by David Bailey has his titular pop ar...
Zaineb Al Hassani: Havana Marking’s film documents the journey of four young hopefuls in the final stages of a reality singing show. But forget The X-Factor: this ...
Film | Feature
Michael Gillespie: Nearly ten years in the making, The Crimson Wing follows the lives and deaths of the flamingos of Lake Natron, a Northern Tanzanian salt lake uninhabi...
Michael Gillespie: You may not have seen Robert Altman’s genuinely ground-breaking 1993 drama Short Cuts. But you probably have seen Magnolia, Crash or...
Film | Comedy | DVD Review
Zaineb Al Hassani: Slacker Uprising documents Michael Moore’s tour of key battleground states during 2004’s US elections, his intention to get America’...
Music | Film | DVD Review
Michael Gillespie: The general rule is that style or form should always match subject matter, but by that logic, a documentary about composer Philip Glass would amount t...
Film | Review
Michael Gillespie: Harvey Milk (who, as the final scene of this documentary confirms, has truly earned his place as the gay Martin Luther King) famously prayed that any ...
Nine: Prior to seeing Sounds Like Teen Spirit, I was oblivious to the existence of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Two Eurovisions a year? That’s just...
Film | Comedy | Review
Michael Gillespie: Religion is the opium of society according to Karl Marx, and Bill Maher feels no differently. Venturing into the religious heartlands of America and b...
Review | DVD Review
Michael Gillespie: Oscar hopes are high for Gus Van Sant’s Milk, an excellent biopic of the first openly gay elected official in American history. Van Sant credits...
Lifestyle | Film | Heads Up | Preview
Dave Hynes: This week sees the sixth year of the Document film festival at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (Wednesday 15 to Sunday 19 October). Docum...
Paul Greenwood: On 7 August, 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes walking on a high wire between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Centre. Th...
Lifestyle | Film | Deviance | Review
Nine: A harrowing look at child prostitution, the documentary Very Young Girls follows Rachel Lloyd and her staff at GEMS in New York, assisting girls who w...
Jenni Cruickshank: As any world-weary ex-student will tell you, travelling is generally considered to be A Good Thing; you meet new people, discover new places and can e...
Steve Adams: Al Gore has a stern message: if we don't change the way we live, theworld we know will cease to exist. He shows us that - in betweenfootage of where h...
