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MusicFoals @ 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 over 15 years ago -
MusicThree 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 over 15 years ago -
FilmStray 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 over 15 years ago -
ArtSpring 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 over 15 years ago -
MusicThese 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 over 15 years ago -
MusicBring 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 over 15 years ago -
FestivalsGlasgay! 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 about 15 years ago -
FilmVioleta 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 over 11 years ago -
FilmWe 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 over 11 years ago -
FilmNymphomaniac
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 over 11 years ago -
FilmThe 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 over 10 years ago -
FilmThe 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 over 10 years ago -
FilmChemsex
This hard-hitting, timely documentary about London’s underground ‘chemsex’ scene started life in 2013 as a Vice article entitled “The... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
FilmAudition
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 over 9 years ago -
FilmEngland 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 over 8 years ago -
FestivalsRegrouping: 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 over 9 years ago -
FilmNocturnal 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 about 9 years ago -
FestivalsStag & 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 over 15 years ago -
FilmPeeping 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 about 15 years ago -
FilmThe 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 almost 12 years ago -
FilmBlood 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 almost 12 years ago -
FestivalsBehaviour 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 over 11 years ago -
FilmMarshland
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 10 years ago -
MusicGallops: 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 over 8 years ago -
FilmThe 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 over 8 years ago -
FilmAccess 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 over 8 years ago -
FilmJourney 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 over 9 years ago -
FilmA 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 about 9 years ago -
FilmMessi
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 9 years ago -
FestivalsJet 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 almost 9 years ago