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Music
Foals @ O2 ABC, 2 May
Remember nu-rave? Four posh white boys with keyboards come to save us all from other white boys with guitars? Yeah, it’s a bit hazy for me too,... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
Music
Three Blind Wolves @ Stereo, 10 Apr
“Who’s that writin’?” wails frontman Sean Cumming of the John Knox Sex Club, leading the four chanting a capella voices in their insp... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
Film
Stray Dogs and Samurai: Celebrating 100 Years of Akira Kurosawa
One hundred years since his birth legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa still remains a huge influence today. A prolific auteur and dedicated perfection... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Art
Spring 2010 Exhibition @ Axolotl Gallery
The Axolotl Gallery holds a deceptively sugary appeal from Dundas Street; its bright purple shop front displays colourful, surreal paintings promising an arr... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
Music
These New Puritans @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16 Apr
The dark, cavernous Cabaret Voltaire is an apt setting for a Friday evening in the company of These New Puritans, short of a forest clearing at midnight. Ini... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
Music
Bring the Noise
The quiet, polite Lea Cummings is strangely enough Kylie Minoise – a volatile and prolific noise artist, behind the infamous Live Aktion sets for which... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Festivals
Glasgay! Film
Glasgay! returns this autumn to queer your silver screens once more, with an ever varied and transgressive look at LGBT identity and film, accompanied by a s... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Film
Violeta Went To Heaven
Violeta Went To Heaven is Andrés Wood’s impassioned and impressionistic cinematic portrait of Chilean legend Violeta Parra &ndash... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Film
We Are Analogue: Chris Petit on post-cinema and the Museum of Loneliness
The Skinny: What is post-cinema how does it relate to the Museum of Loneliness? How did the idea come about? Chris Petit: With the technological revolution ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Film
Nymphomaniac
Lars is back to his provocative, trolling self with sex confessional Nymphomaniac. Erudite yet impotent Seligman (Skarsgård) happens upon a battered Jo... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Film
The Samurai
Werewolf films tend to deal with the physical, and thus psycho-sexual, painful metamorphosis of a coming-of-age protagonist, from Ginger Snaps to Teen Wolf. ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Film
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Walerian Borowczyk’s uniquely erotic take on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic gothic tale of split personality re-imagines Dr Jekyll’s experiment... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Chemsex
This hard-hitting, timely documentary about London’s underground ‘chemsex’ scene started life in 2013 as a Vice article entitled “The... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Film
Audition
Audition’s rise to infamy in 1999 was swift, meteoric and, like any game-changing horror film worth its salt, shrouded in tales of hysterical reception... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Film
England Is Mine
Musician biopics are not the easiest things to get excited about. Depending on the artist, they’re usually produced as an easy sell: there's a ready-ma... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Festivals
Regrouping: Re-evaluating a Lost Feminist Classic
At this year's Edinburgh Film Festival, Lizzie Borden presented her 1976 debut Regrouping for just its fifth screening; the visionary director was ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Film
Nocturnal Animals
The most interesting sequence in the layered, metatextual Nocturnal Animals is the audiovisual art that plays with the opening credits, which shows happ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
Stag & Dagger Festival @ Various Venues (Glasgow), 22 May
If Hinterland wasn’t enough to sate your spring multi-venue festival fix, then day long genre mash up and prevalent Shoreditch export Stag and Dagger s... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
Film
Peeping Tom: 50th Anniversary
Fifty years after its notorious debut, Peeping Tom returns to cinemas in all its creepy and lucid Technicolor glory for audiences' voyeuristic pleasure. It&r... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Film
The Stuart Hall Project
Having redefined what documentaries can do in his groundbreaking Nine Muses, Ghana-born British director and rogue historian John Akomfrah once again revisit... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Film
Blood Glacier (aka The Station)
“The gates of hell are open. We melted them,” laments Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), a technician working against climate change in the remote German ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Festivals
Behaviour Festival: Sam Halmarack and the Miserablites @ The Arches
Having lit up crowds from Edinburgh’s fringe to Australia, Sam Halmarack brings his pop spectacular back to Scotland. There’s only one problem, h... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Film
Marshland
The detective film set in the recent past – critically reflecting on the socioeconomic problems of its setting, with serial murder as a symptom of... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
Gallops: Under The Influence
Wrexham-based rock machine Gallops first made waves following the release of their debut album Yours Sincerely Dr. Hardcore back in 2012, before promptl... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Film
The Little Hours
The Little Hours sees director Jeff Baena (writer of I Heart Huckabees) team up once again with Aubrey Plaza (Parks & Recreation) with a film that’... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Film
Access All Areas
It’s the end of summer in Bristol, and school and university looms for some. Mia (Ella Purnell, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) has ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Film
Journey to the Shore
Japanese master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (The Cure, Pulse), known particularly for his chilling horrors and meditations on the metaphysical, has talked of ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Film
A look inside the new documentary on Gary Numan
Gary Numan is the subject of Steve Read and Rob Alexander's new documentary Gary Numan: Android in La La Land. Read tells us how he got under the electronic ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Film
Messi
Director Álex de la Iglesia filmed his documentary on Lionel Messi’s life story and genius, from unlikely child prodigy to arguably the gre... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
Jet Trash
Charles Henri Belleville’s streamline adaptation of Simon Lewis’ Go, staring Robert Sheehan, is a fast-paced and gripping crime thriller Jet Tra... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago