16th June 2009
Tom Bonnick Adaptations of Neil Gaiman books are always encouraging prospects, and so the lure of a Nightmare Before Christmas-inspired film of Coraline, the award-winning novella, by director Henry Selick — in 3D, no less — seemed incredibly promising....
16th June 2009
Tom Bonnick Fighting, the latest venture in former model Channing Tatum’s bid to be more shirtless than Matthew McConaughey, is possibly the closest cinema can come to replicating the sensation of chewing on cud....
16th June 2009
Ian Robertson and Leon Weber report on the past, present and future of 3D technology in cinema...
16th June 2009
Oisín Kealy has a word with Hinterland’s resident live artist Jenny Soep...
16th June 2009
Guardian checks out the host of bands playing Glasgow's first Hinterland festival...
16th June 2009
Oisín Kealy Her fourth release under the moniker of Peaches, the album opens ominously with ‘Serpentine’. Nisker displaying her priority for rhyme over reason, spitting out spunky couplets that sacrifice making sense for being sensory (“Fuck maturity got a big bad brain like a champagne stain as I yank your chain’). The hushed urgency she ...
16th June 2009
Laura Cernis The Maccabees carry on in much the same vein with their new offering ‘Wall of Arms’ as with 2007’s ‘Colour It In’....
16th June 2009
Tom Bonnick The irony of Benjamin Obler’s debut novel Javascotia is that the very aspects that made it seem so promising a literary debut — a novel about coffee! In Glasgow! With sexy art students! — are, in fact, amongst its most negligible qualities....
16th June 2009
Bliss + Mud at The Tron is a superb double act, writes Dominic Maxwell-Lewis...
