Gutter 08
By . Published 21 May 2013
Gutter is a leading Scottish journal of prose, poetry, and review. The latter comprise a small wedge in the centre of the magazine, offering a nice round-up of some recently...
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 20 May
By . Published 20 May 2013In today's Bulletin: GENERATION celebrates the past 25 years of Scottish art; Rachel Maclean wins the Margaret Tait Award; new music from Wu-Tang Clan, Liars, Mount Kimbie and more; Dundee...
Myth Making: Neil Jordan on Byzantium
By . Published 20 May 2013Neil Jordan returns to the vampire sub-genre with Byzantium, an adult fairy tale starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. We spoke to the Irishman at Glasgow Film Festival, where Byzantium...
Byzantium
By . Published 20 May 2013Neil Jordan loves a myth. His best movies (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Company of Wolves) are dreamy fairy tales with one toe in reality. The sensual and stunningly...
Gangster Squad
By . Published 20 May 2013Not much liked by the critics on its theatrical release, Gangster Squad's account of the creation of an extra-legal LAPD team to take down mob boss Mickey Cohen in postwar...
The Last Stand
By . Published 20 May 2013"I'll give the sheriff a call to tell him to get out of the way." When a psychopathic cartel boss is sprung from custody in Las Vegas and races towards...
Sacrifice
By . Published 20 May 2013If there's one thing that we learn from this historical epic from director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine), it is that if revenge is a dish best served cold (15-years...
In Pictures: Brew at the Bog, Bogbain Farm, 4 May
Published 17 May 2013Brew at the Bog, 4 May Some pictures from this years sold out Brew at the Bog festival at Bogbain farm in Inverness. Photography by Emily Wylde ...
Stephen Sutcliffe @ Tramway, until 30 Jun
By . Published 17 May 2013Stephen Sutcliffe’s video installation Outworks is difficult to assess. It gives rise to myriad seemingly contradictory adjectives – at once humorous, bold and confident, it is nonetheless didactic and academic....
Opinion: Outing Rape
By . Published 17 May 2013WARNING: this articles features explicit discussion of rape and sexual assault
The Unbelievable Truth
By . Published 17 May 2013Audry feels, and looks, like the heroine of a Nouvelle Vague film who is trapped in the very ordinary surroundings of a Long Island suburb in the late 1980s. She...
Something in the Air (Après mai)
By . Published 17 May 2013Set in 1971, Something in the Air is French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’s ebullient tribute to the kids who had to follow in the footsteps of those student firebrands who helped bring his country...
The Bulletin: T Break Lineup Announced | 17 May
By . Published 17 May 2013In today's Bulletin, the News Badger brings you an in-depth guide to the T Break stage at T in the Park, including indie-electro darlings Machines In Heaven, hip-hop phenomenons Hector...
Top Ten Events Scotland 16-23 May: Stag and Dagger, Mount Eerie + Southside Film Festival
By . Published 16 May 2013Part music festival, part cardiovascular workout, this Saturday Stag and Dagger will see the streets of Glasgow strewn with out-of-puff live music-nuts as they scuttle between the one day festival’s...
Fast & Furious 6
By . Published 16 May 2013Fast & Furious 5 (aka Fast Five) abandoned virtually any semblance of its series’ street racing routes, retooling the blockbuster franchise into an ensemble vehicular heist thriller; a brawny blend...
Top Ten Events Northwest 16-23 May: How To Dress Well, BUG Radiohead + Suuns
By . Published 16 May 2013We made a Spotify playlist to capture the sounds of this week's ZAP!, but quickly decided to do the digital equivalent of burning it and burying the ashes, cuz it...
Around the World in 20 Drinks: Trinidad and Tobago
By . Published 16 May 2013In honour of our dalliance with the world's priciest rum, we take a look at some of the other liquids available in the home of the stuff, Trinidad and Tobago:...
The Liability
By . Published 16 May 2013The Liability, Craig Vivieros’ second feature following prison drama debut Ghosted, offers enough surprises to raise it above the mire of recent dopey British gangster fare. Also elevated by great...
Looking Back to the Future
By . Published 16 May 2013Cooking up a new dish with old ingredients
The Great Gatsby
By . Published 15 May 2013Baz Luhrmann's latest foray into vintage decadence delivers the director's characteristic flamboyance and romance, and serves as a perfect companion to both Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge. The Great...
