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Film
The Raid
Unlikely pairings can be perfect. Indonesian film The Raid centres around a police bust in a large tower block filled with criminals, guns, and machetes; unl... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Film
GFF 2013: Good Vibrations
Directors Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn explore the life of Belfast record shop owner Terri Hooley (Dormer), whose career was inextricably linked to the... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Film
The Daughter
Geoffrey Rush and Paul Schneider star in this familial drama inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck The Daughter begins with a father-son tension. A... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Music
Adam Goldberg, Dilettante?
His own website, and hub of information for all that is Adam Goldberg’s multi-medium creative output, refers to the actor/filmmaker/photographer/musici... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
Film
Dylan at the Movies
The five films which make up the Dylan at the Movies strand have been carefully selected by curator Dr Pasquale Iannone, who, rather than opting for more con... Read more »| Updated about 14 years ago -
Students
Poster Boy: A Guide to DIY Decor
You’ve just moved into your new room at the halls of residence; you’ve waved goodbye to Mum and Dad; lined up your brand new George Foreman grill... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Film
The World and Bobby Fischer: an interview with Liz Garbus
At the height of the cold war, the world’s news cameras focused on a solitary figure sitting at a small chessboard in Iceland. Broadcasters and spectat... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Music
Feist – Metals
Leslie Feist returns with the eagerly anticipated follow up to 2007’s The Reminder which, assisted by an iPod iteration that even today seems quite dat... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
Kono Michi @ The Caves, 27 October
As a virtuoso violinist and regular collaborator with Yo Yo Ma, there is an expectaiton amongst the small audience in The Caves this evening for Michi Wianck... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Cruel Summer EP
To coincide with what Aidan Moffat calls his ‘first proper tour in five years’ the former Arab Strap raconteur and current collaborator Bill Well... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
King's Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When
Chemikal Underground welcome members of Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnation, and Shannon Wright in the form of new band King’s Daughters &... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
Red Horses of the Snow – Territories
A prevailing sense of nostalgia dominates Territories, the debut from artist/musician Chris Hawtin and producer Mark Burgess’ collaboration as Red Hors... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
Lil Daggers – Lil Daggers
Imagine finding an old wireless; winding it up, and turning it on to discover that it’s still tuned to an old forgotten AM station constantly broadcast... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
Albums of the Year (#1): St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
The black coiled hair of Annie Clark, who appears as a backlit silhouette, casts elongated shadows that scale the walls and tease their way through the crani... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Festivals
Shadow Dancer
Set in 1993, IRA soldier Colette McVeigh (Andrea Riseborough) is apprehended while attempting to plant an explosive on the London Underground. Forced by an ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Film
Gray's Anatomy: Alasdair Gray - A Life in Progress
Glasgow’s ‘little grey deity’, as Will Self once called him, Alasdair Gray is a figure whose work looms over Scottish art and literature an... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Film
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Based on the bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man – let’s call it that for short – chronicles the fanciful escapa... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Film
The Punk Singer
Kathleen Hanna claims she started a band because no one ever listened to her. It’s safe to say that changed with Bikini Kill. The Punk Singer takes us ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Festivals
Bringing Film Back to the Festival
CineFringe Founded in reaction to the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s move to June, leaving cinema largely unrepresented amongst the countless... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Film
2013's Coming Attractions
Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer) — 22 Feb Based on the incredibly complex novel by David Mitchell (not that one), Cloud Atlas consists of ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
State Broadcasters – A Different Past (Album Premiere)
Marking four and a half years since the release of their previous LP Ghosts We Must Carry, this also marks a new chapter for State Broadcasters as they bid f... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Videos
State Broadcasters – Break My Fall: Video Premiere
Glasgow quartet State Broadcasters return with Break My Fall, the lead song from the band's forthcoming third album A Different Past, due... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
Endor - We Live Next Door
It comes as no surprise to learn that Endor's lead singer, David McGinty, sang backing vocals on Snow Patrol's Eyes Open album. The similarities in sound bet... Read more »| Updated almost 18 years ago -
Music
Scottish Gigs of the Week: 21-27 Mar
Live music in Edinburgh Onra + Wuh Oh @ Sneaky Pete's, 22 MarThe globetrotting beatmaker stops off in Edinburgh for a late show as part of the Night Movies ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Art
The Whisky Bond: Meet the studioholders
Outside The Whisky Bond is a fledgling community garden, and new moorings where barges will next year be set up as living spaces. These are only the per... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Film
Films of 2015: Hippies, Road Warriors and STD Hauntings
Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Film
Our Favourite British Films 2010-2015
What comes to your mind we you think 'British Cinema'? Do you picture a dour room with characters indulging in bittersweet conversations while drinking tea (... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
The Bulletin: T Break Lineup Announced | 17 May
FESTIVAL WATCH: T-BREAK SPECIAL - WHO'S WHOThe 16 bands picked for the 2013 T Break stage at T in the Park (12-14 Jul) represent a cross-section of Scot... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Music
T in the Park 2013: Saturday, 13 July
Dundee band Seams have sensibly brought a large number of fans from their home town, who fill the front two rows of the T Break tent and make a lot... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago