20th November 2022
Andrew encourages readers not to give up on a fun night out in favour of overrated comfort. Now that movies are cheap and easy to access – paying the same price for a month’s worth of online content as a single cinema ticket – why do we still bother going out? What experience can the ...
16th November 2022
Adapted from the comics series in the 1990s to a TV show for the 2020s, The Sandman reflects the demand for more nuanced, inclusive, and diverse representations in the fantasy genre. There is always the fear that directors and producers will completely desecrate a well-loved text in their adaptation. Choices surrounding plot emission, casting, and ...
16th November 2022
Emma reviews this modern theatrical interpretation of the classic novel. Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre recently hosted the production of Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of). Written and directed by Isobel McArthur, it is a comical reinterpretation of Jane Austen’s classic 1813 novel, Pride and Prejudice. Its modernity and wit make it thoroughly entertaining viewing, for those both ...
16th November 2022
Finn reflects back on the Hunterian’s exhibition, celebrating 40 years since the publication of Alasadair Gray’s Lanark. **This exhibition is no longer open to the public** Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A Life in Four Books is a novel built out of parts that ought not to fit together. It is an autobiography embedded inside a fantasy. ...
11th November 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing reviews the award-winning musical The Book of Mormon as it makes its rescheduled debut in Glasgow. “Jesus lived here, in the USA”, supposedly. It’s the kind of writing that should be so ridiculous, so satirical, as to bear little resemblance to reality. But what The Book of Mormon does so well ...
9th November 2022
Jamie T performs the first of his two gigs at the O2 this winter. On Tuesday 8 November 2022, I attended my very first concert. I’ve listened to Jamie T since a friend introduced me to him back in 2013, but I particularly love his first album – Panic Prevention – which is a combination ...
7th November 2022
Writer Eva articulates the importance of queer representation and communities in her review of Immigrant Stories. The Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) celebrated the last event of its Mini-Series on Friday 21 October and I had the pleasure of attending the screening Immigrant Stories with LGBT Unity Glasgow. They are a community-led group which ...
6th November 2022
Featuring two fantastic leading performers, countless twists, and an unexpectedly entertaining skewering of the modern patriarchy, Do Revenge is one of the better teen movies of the last five years. Teenage girls are sociopaths, or so we’re told in Netflix’s latest offering, Do Revenge, a mostly successful retread of well-worn teen movie tropes that finds ...
2nd November 2022
Luke reviews the DMA’s as they return to Glasgow, reflecting on how the band and the Barrowlands have changed in recent years. It’s the night of Halloween, and the Barras is full of costumes. Among witches and wizards are blokes clad in pretty green, cosplaying as Liam Gallagher’s love child on the way to Manuka ...
28th October 2022
There is nowhere that unleashes mass unhinged chaos quite like Bongos Bingo. Bongo’s Bingo is no quiet night out. Almost immediately from the get-go, the entire hall falls under the spell of the evening’s presenter, a Belfast man, and his two glamorous, half-naked assistants, who keep the energy at a high from start to finish. ...
