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The much anticipated second chapter of Christopher Nolan's reimagining of the caped crusader sees Bruce Wayne pitted against his old arch-nemesis, the Joker. Paul Greenwood loads up on overpriced popcorn for two and a half hours in the brooding company of The Dark Knight.

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Things That Make You Go Boom!

Film :: Feature 10 Oct 2008

Lindsay West: When selecting your slice of Tennessee Williams cinematic majesty this Glasgay!, do Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, indulge in The Glass Menagerie, and drink in Streetcar; but how about talking a chance on Boom!? Going down in history as one of the best failed...

Rita Ray

Afro-Scottish Connections Club Night @ The Bongo Club

Film :: Heads Up :: Preview 07 Oct 2008

Lizzie Cass-Maran: In association with Africa in Motion: the Edinburgh African Film Festival - see our preview in the Film section - The Bongo Club are playing host to the legendary Rita Ray. Ray is a world-class DJ and top buff of Afrobeat, desribed as a "combination o...

Chemical Wedding

Chemical Wedding

Film :: Review :: DVD Review 02 Oct 2008

Cara McGuigan: If Wayne and Garth got the budget to make a film, they'd probably make Chemical Wedding. It's dire beyond belief, but... cripplingly, cringingly funny in parts. Infamous British occultist Aleister Crowley is reincarnated in the body of a Cambridge don...

Burn to Shine

Burn to Shine

Film :: Music :: Feature :: DVD Review 01 Oct 2008

Ewen Millar: The mandate for Burn to Shine is simple: find a house that is due to be demolished; recruit a number of local bands to play there; film the demolition of the house and release the DVD. Produced by Fugazi's Brendan Canty, each DVD is rigidly formulaic ...

Zina Saro-wiwa

Africa In Motion 2008

Film :: Preview 01 Oct 2008

Alastair Roy: The Africa in Motion festival comes to Edinburgh for its third year, showcasing film from around the continent, free from BBC news reports and ranting pop stars. Over 40 films from 22 countries capture the kaleidoscope of forms, themes and styles that...

Oxford Murders

The Oxford Murders

Film :: Review :: DVD Review 29 Sep 2008

Alastair Roy: Fresh faced Elijah Wood and craggy chops John Hurt come head-to-head in this murder mystery set against Oxford's academic world. Wood plays Martin, a keen-eyed American student who crosses the Atlantic for the tutorage of philosophy lecturer Arthur Sel...

Days of Darkness

Days of Darkness

Film :: Review :: DVD Review 29 Sep 2008

Jack McFarlane: This is by and for the gore-hungry and genre-savvy demographic so dedicated to these straight to video zombie movies, but is unlikely to satisfy the more seasoned of the brood as blood and guts only feature as prominently as its zero budget will allow ...

Good Dick

Nothing Like Good Dick?

Deviance :: Film :: Feature 26 Sep 2008

Jenni Cruickshank: A lot of debut writer/directors might find it tricky doing just one new job - what made you decide to take on acting and producing too? Marianna Palka: Originally, I wrote it to be in it – I wanted to be both writer and actress. Then my friend ...

Suddenly Last Summer, one of the Tennessee Williams films on at Glasgay! this year

Glasgay! and theTennessee Williams Film Festival 2008

Film :: Feature :: Preview 26 Sep 2008

Djuna Bee: In one of her strips, American cartoonist and out lesbian Alison Bechel claimed she had a rule about whether she’d watch a film or not. The film must: 1. Feature at least two women 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something other than men It...

The Fall - Tarsem Singh

The Fall - Tarsem Singh Interview

Film :: Feature 25 Sep 2008

Jonathan Melville: The Fall is the latest film from Indian director Tarsem Singh, a fantasy epic over 20 years in the making and filmed across 24 countries. Best known as the director of 2000’s The Cell and REM’s Losing my Religion video, Tarsem tells Jonatha...

Smart People

Smart People

Film :: Review :: DVD Review 24 Sep 2008

Alastair Roy: University professor and widower Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) ekes out a self-centred existence, blind to his children's problems and students' questions. Work on his academic book 'You Can't Read' is put on hold when step-brother slacker Chuck (...

Amy Lamé

Glasgay! 2008, 1 Oct - 9 Nov

Deviance :: Film :: Theatre :: Art :: Clubs :: Preview 23 Sep 2008

Margaret Kirk: There is plenty of queer work these days that tickles mainstream tastes: like a larger than life character on Big Brother, or a token edgy story-line on your favourite daytime soap, sexuality is a useful signifier of exoticism that can actually work to...

Liam Neeson in Taken

Taken

Film :: Review 18 Sep 2008

Kevin McHugh: Tramping its size 10s in the footsteps of James Bond and Jason Bourne is this highly entertaining – if highly unoriginal – thriller starring Liam Neeson. The Rob Roy star is former CIA man Brian, who’s hung up his badge to devote hims...

Westworld

Westworld

Film :: Review :: DVD Review 17 Sep 2008

Jack McFarlane: A consequence-free environment with a disposable android population, Westworld is the theme park of the future where the most illicit and amoral of wild-west fantasies are fully indulged. But the days full of rigged shoot-outs, hard boozing, and robo-f...

Faintheart

Faintheart

Film :: Comedy :: Review 16 Sep 2008

Kevin McHugh: Brought to us by the unlikely combination of MySpace and Film4, Faintheart is a moderately entertaining British comedy. Eddie Marsan plays the loveable Richard, a wannabe Viking who, with his merry men, re-enact Norse battles at the weekends – a ...

Logan's Run

Logan's Run

Film :: Review :: DVD Review 15 Sep 2008

Jack McFarlane: In this post-apocalyptic society, every aspect of life is cared for by the computer that controls the hermetically sealed cities. There is no work, just play. But there is one serious snag: at the age of 30 you must take part in a mass suicide to maint...

XXY

XXY

Deviance :: Film :: Review :: DVD Review 11 Sep 2008

Cara McGuigan: The tense confusion of something unspoken is thick from the opening credits of XXY. Lack of understanding is at the heart of every single frame of the film: nobody really knows what they’re doing, or what the consequences of their actions might ...

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Student Life: When comics become movies

Film :: Student Life :: Books :: Feature 10 Sep 2008

Neil D. Walker: Now it’s even easier to apply the cape to your life as Hollywood film studios are currently in feverish cahoots with the major comic houses Marvel and DC to sign up what’s left of their back catalogues of superheroes and legends – rea...

The Wave 2

The Wave

Film :: Review 05 Sep 2008

Kevin McHugh: Professor Wegner (Vogel) has been roped into teaching autocracy as part of project week at his school. His students are a mix of goths, bullies and cool kids, most of whom couldn’t give a hoot about how dictatorships are formed. But when Wegner d...

Two Sides of the Bed

The Two Sides of the Bed

Film :: Comedy :: Review :: DVD Review 01 Sep 2008

Lindsay West: Following on from 2002's The Other Side of the Bed (El Otro Lado de la Cama), Emilio Martinez Lazaro's sequel of sorts is exactly the sort of plush, Spanish comedy of errors that begs for comparisons to early Almodovar. Viewing its predecessor is worth...

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