28th March 2023
The Scottish actor talks to The Glasgow Guardian about ambition and trying new things. Craig McGinlay was working as a sports scientist when he landed a Haig Whiskey advert in 2014. “I remember working on that advert, when I looked around and Guy Richie was behind the monitor, John Mathieson from Gladiator was behind the ...
28th March 2023
Girlbossing and glamourising female villains is not representation at its best. Recently I played a game with a friend, guessing if a stranger was a victim or a perpetrator, based on their expression and external attributes. However, we quickly agreed that most women would inevitably be victims in our game. Do we prefer the female ...
28th March 2023
Rebecca Richard offers a counterpoint to negative stories about the pill. “Suck it up”. What we’re so often told as young girls navigating periods for the first time. We’re expected to sit the hardest exams we’ve experienced so far, take on extracurriculars, maintain healthy lives and friendships all the while wondering if the pulsing pain ...
28th March 2023
DVDs have become devastatingly underappreciated – a glimmer of the past growing dimmer by the year. Losing the DVD slot on my laptop, when I finally decided to upgrade it after putting it off for so long, was quite frankly heartbreaking. Yes, I did quickly resolve this by purchasing an external DVD drive that I ...
28th March 2023
Director Mark Jenkin reflects on Cornish history and folk horror. Enys Men is a film that can be difficult to grasp. Some take it as a ghost story, others as an allegory for nature, and some simply see a woman living on a remote Cornish island. But the film is beautiful in its mystery. When ...
28th March 2023
More than villains, victims and wives, Ellen Ruddell examines retellings of the female myth. Firmly cemented as the powerhouses of modern Greek myth retellings, Madeline Miller, author of the tremendously successful Circe and The Song of Achilles and Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne continue to ride the cultural wave, tridents in hand. Despite ostensibly being ...
28th March 2023
Marvel films can and should be considered proper cinema. When asked about the cinematic value of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, Martin Scorsese described them as akin to “theme parks”, and a far cry from what he denoted as the “cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences”. This comparison refers to the ...
28th March 2023
Neon filled escapist paradise is perfect for student relaxation. As the sweet melody of whatever upbeat pop tune accompanying the previous evening’s Love Island recap fills my living room for the sixth time that week, my flatmate, who has never actually watched the show themselves, asks for an update on who’s kissed who now. Even ...
28th March 2023
Forget the NFTs and the immersive experiences, let’s go back to basics. First there were cave paintings, simple handprints and animal depictions. Then rock carvings like those in Egypt’s Western Desert. The global warming that ended the last ice age pushed the prehistoric peoples out of the once verdant Sahara and settled them in the ...
28th March 2023
The introduction of low emissions zones in Glasgow and many other major UK cities in June will mean extra costs for GUSA clubs. From June 2023, many major cities in the UK are enforcing a new low emissions zone, including Glasgow. These new low emissions zones (LEZ), will mean that vehicles that do not meet ...
