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A performance-themed Valentine's Day »

Mon 08 Feb 2010

Gareth K. Vile: Given that my idea of an appropriate first date is either some demonic clowning from Al Seed or a quick burst of Sarah Kane’s Crave (sample line: “What ties me to you is guilt”), it is no surprise that I’ll be spending this Valentin...

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A Perfect World »

Mon 08 Feb 2010

Keir Roper-Caldbeck: There are few things more galling in life than seeing a person, already immoderately successful in their chosen field, try something new and make a success of it. This has become a depressingly common experience in the movies. First it was the phenomenon o...

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A Skinny Take: Chasing the zeitgeist »

Fri 05 Feb 2010

R. J. Gallagher: When the legendary CBGB’s club in New York was closed down in 2006 because owner Hilly Kristal could no longer afford to pay its rent, there was a bitter taste left in the mouths of all concerned. A club that nurtured the talents of so many gre...

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Misery Inc. »

Mon 01 Feb 2010

Keir Roper-Caldbeck: You know how it is. Browsing absent-mindedly along the shelves in a bookshop you find yourself staring, open mouthed, at rows of glossy books covered with pictures of 1950s underwear and words like “fetish”. You've strayed into the Erotica sect...

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A Skinny Take: One nation under CCTV »

Tue 26 Jan 2010

R. J. Gallagher: In 1921 Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote a book in which he envisaged a country dominated by buildings and streets made only from glass; the reasons for this of course being pragmatic – if everything is glass, then nothing can be hidden. Similar to Fouca...

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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly »

Sun 24 Jan 2010

Chris Lindsay: I intentionally held off reviewing the launch of series two of Being Human (Sunday, BBC3) last week. Partly because the world went bonkers for Glee but partly to wait and see how the second episode panned out, given that the first instalment was something ...

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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly »

Mon 18 Jan 2010

Chris Lindsay: I’ve always been conflicted when it comes to musicals. The I’m-a-cynical-mediatype-don’t-cha-know in me rails against all things sentimental yet my soppy side still believes that all life’s problems would disappear if only we could ...

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Into the Third Dimension »

Fri 15 Jan 2010

Keir Roper-Caldbeck: With Avatar conquering all at the box office it seems that 3-D may be here to stay. Never afraid to flog a dead horse – or, should I say, monetise existing assets - it seems entirely possible that Hollywood will look to its back-catalogue for films t...

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The Dullest Blog: Comedy ramblings to inpire the most tedious moment of your week »

Tue 12 Jan 2010

Elaine Malcolmson: It’s the best time of the year for making resolutions. Is it really? Really, really? Is it not a better time for sitting with your feet up, looking out at the snow, dreaming of one last sprout? Or putting your efforts into avoiding a Near Arse Experi...

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A Skinny Take: The danger is everywhere »

Sun 10 Jan 2010

R. J. Gallagher: Once in a generation anything up to 20,000 curlers and spectators convene at Scotland’s only Lake – near a tiny Trossachs village called Port of Menteith – armed to the teeth with ice skates, large rocks and warm clothing. Motivated...

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On the Road Again »

Fri 08 Jan 2010

Keir Roper-Caldbeck: After the thrills, spills and family values of 2012 it's good, as a new decade begins, to be reminded that global catastrophe has a down side as well. The Road gives us a bleakly realistic image of life after the apocalypse – a dying planet populated...

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The Dullest Blog: Comedy ramblings to inpire the most tedious moment of your week »

Wed 06 Jan 2010

Teddy: Now that we’re entering a new decade as well as a new year, it feels like I should take stock of my life and work out what the older, wiser (?) me needs to be doing. People I speak to often assume that because I’m a comedian, I must want to be ...

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Watcha Doin' Cato? »

Wed 06 Jan 2010

Carrie MacLennan: It's been a while since we last spoke to a Whatcha Doin' candidate. It's been a while since we've said anything at all actually but I am in the process of rectifying that. Worry not. With the intention of ending the year on a fuzzy and friend...

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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly »

Thu 31 Dec 2009

Chris Lindsay: Christmas 2009 has belonged to David Tennant. With appearances in Hamlet, Alan Carr, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, CBeebies, Radio 2, Radio 4, 5 Live, the man has been on our airwaves this yuletide more often than Santa. I’d deem the media blitz to p...

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A Skinny Take: A good day for substance »

Wed 23 Dec 2009

R. J. Gallagher: Imagine the odds you could have got a few months ago on Rage Against The Machine’s "Killing In The Name" being at the top of the charts this Christmas day. Such a notion would have seemed so far fetched at the time you’d have likely been la...

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The Dullest Blog: Comedy ramblings to inpire the most tedious moment of your week »

Tue 22 Dec 2009

Gus Tawse: Fit like, With 26 shopping days left until Christmas, I was to Livingston to get the last few gifts for my fiancé, daughter and in-laws. I’ve been remarkably organised - but it wasn’t always this way. Whenever I think about the Christm...

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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly »

Thu 17 Dec 2009

Chris Lindsay: It would be unfair to say that all good British satire in the last fifteen years has been produced by Armando Iannucci. There is at least 3% untouched by him. Such is the quality of output from the producer/writer behind The Day Today, Alan Partridge and T...

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One for the Kids »

Sun 13 Dec 2009

Keir Roper-Caldbeck, : First it was Wes with The Fantastic Mr Fox, and now Spike with Where the Wild Things Are; the former enfants terribles of American cinema are now making them pour les enfants. For most of us a renewed interest in children's films is just one of the many un...

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A Skinny Take: What’s in a name? »

Fri 11 Dec 2009

R. J. Gallagher: The mainstream art world is a world that exists so detached from everyday reality it is sometimes beyond comprehension. It is a world of strange rules, extreme pretence and six-figure-sums; a world populated and dominated by a small clique of elites who so...

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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly »

Wed 09 Dec 2009

Chris Lindsay: I had high hopes for Small Island (BBC1, Sunday), the adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel about the relationship between Londoners and Jamaican soldiers during and after World War II. Its broadcast is a timely reminder of the contribution made by non-white p...

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McNulty, Spartans and The Merry Gentleman »

Sun 06 Dec 2009

Keir Roper-Caldbeck: The arrival of a DVD from Lovefilm always promises a surprise in our house. What film will we be watching tonight? The sense of mystery is in part due to Lovefilm's close-your-eyes-and-stick-a-pin-in-anywhere-so-long-as-it's-near-the-bottom technique for s...

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Burnsong Winners' Concert, Scottish Parliament, 30 November »

Fri 04 Dec 2009

Rupert Thomson: The great thing about the Burnsong songwriting competition is the nature of the prize. There's a chance to gig at Parliament, some exposure too, but most of all, there's the chance to spend a week in a beautifully located house with all the other winners, ...

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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly »

Tue 01 Dec 2009

Chris Lindsay: It’s what we Brits do best; take a successful American idea and anglicise it by removing the glamour. E4’s latest naughty young ‘uns drama Misfits (Wednesday, 10pm) takes this trend to new heights; transporting the American-as-apple-pie g...

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The Dullest Blog: Comedy ramblings to inpire the most tedious moment of your week »

Tue 01 Dec 2009

JoJo Sutherland: My worst memory of Christmas was a few years ago when the winter vomiting bug came to visit and stayed right through until New Year. Either because it was terrified of me or it was feeling particularly evil it left me well alone. I suspect the latter, as I...

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A Skinny Take: Feminism revisited »

Thu 26 Nov 2009

R. J. Gallagher: Page Three is forty years old and Sarah Maple is not happy. The 24 year old artist, who gained attention after winning Channel Four’s ‘New Sensations’ competition in 2007, went on a guerrilla style mission ala Banksy last week to pr...

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