Blogs
Dressing the part
I have exactly Celtic colouring – pale skin, freckles, curly black hair and blue eyes. Of course, I’m always...
Comic Book Guy: Degrees of Separation
“In their juxtaposition of words and images, comic books have fashioned one of the most sophisticated narrative languages in...
Gardens and Labyrinths
A man stands on stage, a row of silver chains attached to his forehead by hooks. He removes them...
Torturing the Artists
One of the hottest topics in contemporary performance criticism- that is to say, the subject that most often is...
Comic Book Guy: The Comic Con(ish)
Edinburgh is often known as a culture hub throughout Europe, and the world-famous Festival surely is a pinpoint on...
Comic Book Guy: The Comic Cons
Apparently imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but as the summer looms the case of the transatlantic Comic...
Comic Book Guy: The Ultimates
Thanks to the success and added controversy of the Kick Ass graphic novel and its near hundred million dollar...
Chekov Mate
Although I am a determined ignoramus about the script, insisting that devised work is far more vibrant and that...
EIFF2010: Restrepo, Third Star and Perestroika
A final blog from this year's EIFF and in the last few days of the festival I managed to...
EIFF 2010: The Hunter, Donkeys, The Runaways and Skeletons
It's been a real mixed bag at EIFF this year. Top of my list so far has been Iranian...
Sonar 2010: Like Night & Day
Barcelona’s 17th electronic music and multimedia shindig bore all the hallmarks of a typical Sonar experience. Of course, a...
TV Blog: Lennon Naked
It’s not hard to see why the mass of contradictions that was John Lennon make him the most compelling...
TV Blog: Dappers
“From the writer that brought you Mamma Mia!” – hardly words to endear a programme to me. Still, regardless...
Questioning Dance
It has not, so far, been a vintage year for dance in Scotland. Tramway seems to have withdrawn from...
EIFF 2010: Gravity, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, The Secret in Their Eyes
Dropping away from suited commuters to enjoy a 9am screening of the blackly comic Gravity carries a curious excitement...
Comic Book Guy: In Person with Sir Patrick Stewart at EIFF
On a warm Edinburgh evening at Fountain Park Cinema, an unassuming black car pulls up to the front doors;...
Comic Book Guy: Superhero Me at EIFF 2010
What is it like to be a superhero in the real world? Not the real New York of Spiderman,...
EIFF 2010: Night Moves
Each year EIFF runs a strand of late-night premieres – films with niche appeal, for fans of genre fare....
EIFF 2010: Zombies, Sluts and Cave Dwellers
I made it to Edinburgh for the Film Festival this week and watched six films in just over 24hrs....
EIFF 2010: The Illusionist, And Everything is Going Fine, 22 Bullets
It was a collection of fragile souls that gathered at the press screenings on Thursday morning, the first official...
The Mating Ritual
Now that cabaret has established itself as performance art that can ever gather coverage in the posh papers, the...
