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The Muppets make a return appearance at Glasgow Film Theatre »

*****
The Muppets have returned to our screens and to thunderous applause at the Glasgow Film Theatre. Screen 1 of the GFT may have had its fair share of noisy children and screaming babies, but nothing could drown out the booming laughter of the old and the...

Wed 08 Feb 2012 by Blair Dingwall | Read more »

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo »

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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David Fincher’s film requires some justification: was there any need (except, of course, financially, for Sony) to make a second adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s 2005 best-selling novel? This new super-production does not add anything signific...

Wed 08 Feb 2012 by Alexandre Johnston | Read more »

The Mulroy »

When heading out for a Christmas lunch, one expects to merrily succumb to a barrage of cliché dishes, slightly underwhelming cranberry sauce and an overdose of house wine. This year, however, we found a pleasant surprise waiting at the Mulroy, t...

Tue 07 Feb 2012 by Kaylyn Hawkes | Read more »

Waltz With Bashir »

Waltz Withe Bashir

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Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary, a potent exploration of director Ari Folman's own experience of war. It's told as he tries to piece together his fractured memories of the major Israeli incursion into Lebanon in 1982. Waltz with Bashir is ...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Anna Hafsteinsson | Read more »

Chico & Rita »

Chico & Rita

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In 2008 Mark Kermode called Chico & Rita 'One of the 10 best films of the year' and with its cracking soundtrack and charming visual aesthetic it's not too hard to see why. Talented Spanish director Fernando Trueba invokes the tradition of the...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Anna Hafsteinsson | Read more »

Hamletmachine »

Hamletmachine

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The Traverse Theatre’s annual visual theatre festival, Manipulate, is always a highlight in its Spring/Summer season and this year promises to be no different. The festival's opening production is Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine, performed by...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Kate Adams | Read more »

Plucked...A True Fairy Tale »

Plucked...A True Fairy Tale

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Director Liz Walker’s work has been challenging the British audiences perception of puppetry since she co-founded Optic Theatre Company in 1987. Her work today continues to do so as she brings us Plucked...A True Fairy Story a charming tale deliv...

Mon 06 Feb 2012 by Kate Adams | Read more »

Kirsty Wither: New Paintings »

Foot of the Castle by Kirtsy Wither.

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A combination of oil paintings lines the walls of the Open Eye Gallery. At first glance the work seems like any other collection of still life and landscape, yet on closer observation the unique application of paint reveals itself to the viewer. One c...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Harry Dougall | Read more »

Rob Fairley: Retrospective with New Works »

Kindertotenlieder by Rob Fairley

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The Open Eye Gallery, a bright and contemporary space in Edinburgh’s New Town, have been exhibiting the work of Rob Fairley since the early eighties. Fairley studied at the Edinburgh College of Art before returning to Mallaig, in the Highlands o...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Pippa Atkins | Read more »

Poetic Licence »

Shakespeare's Sonnet, by Joyce Gunn Cairns MBE

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Mark-making is a game of construction: the gestural language of creation. In poetry and in painting, mark-makers build on two very distinct vocabularies in order to achieve diverse results. The processes, however, are not so dissimilar. At the Union G...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »

Anna Barriball »

Untitled by Anna Barriball. 2011

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Whilst the premise of this exhibition sounds unique and exciting, the overall effect may leave some with a lot to be desired. Anna Barriball produces work that falls neither in the category of drawing or sculpture but is a hybrid of both concepts, push...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Francesca Sobande | Read more »

Hot Scots »

Karen Gillan by Suki Dhanda. 2010

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‘Connecting the past with the present’ – one of the main aims of the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but an endeavour that is unfortunately lost in the Hot Scots exhibition on show in the Contemporary Gallery. T...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Emily Burke | Read more »

Upmarket food for downmarket prices »

I always try my best not to follow the crowd when writing up bar and restaurant reviews. I feel it is important to gauge the wider, overall standard of the city’s cuisine rather than judge on one or two of its most famous offerings – as m...

Fri 03 Feb 2012 by Adam D'Arcy | Read more »

Emeli Sandé – Our Version of Events »

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Already tipped to be the ‘sound of 2012’, recently nominated for a Brit as well as winning the Critic’s Choice award, Scot Emeli Sandé is enjoying an enviable start to the new year. Having achieved chart-topping success in her...

Thu 02 Feb 2012 by Tom Collins | Read more »

The Builders »

The Builders

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Plutot La Vie’s The Builders is a deliciously dark comedy that delves into today’s obsession with home improvement and makes a number of comments on our seemingly insatiable thirst for the material. Written by Line Knutzon, the play follows...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Anna Hafsteinsson | Read more »

The Sleeping Beauty »

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Ashley Page, the Artistic Director and Choreographer of Scottish Ballet, has a penchant for politicising the classics and with a century-wide chasm written into The Sleeping Beauty, it's something he's been unable to resist. Princess Aurora's (Claire ...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Sean Watson | Read more »

The Infamous Brothers Davenport »

The Infamous Brothers Davenport

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The Royal Lyceum Theatre, in collaboration with the Glasgow based Vox Motus present the world premier of The Infamous Brothers Davenport. The play, written by Peter Arnott, directed by Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison, escorts the audience on a journ...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Francesca Parker | Read more »

The Chosen Few »

Newburgh by Roland Fraser

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The Chosen Few is an exhibition that brings together some of the most recent and original Scottish artists handpicked by thirty professionals and patrons of the Open Eye Gallery. The work itself is varied; a combination of sculpture, painting, prints, ...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Harry Dougall | Read more »

Sturm und Drams »

The Royal McGregor

'Royal is my Race' is the motto of the Gregor clan, the family which gives its name to the Royal McGregor pub on the Royal Mile. The clan was outlawed for two hundred years by the Campbell clan (perpetrators of the Glencoe massacre in 1692, no less), a...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

Shame »

Shame

*****
Steve McQueen’s latest cinematic offering, Shame, is an unflinching examination of the reality of sexual addiction. The film follows Brandon, a thirty-something New Yorker whose voracious sexual appetite prevents him from forging meaningful relat...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Matthew Macaulay | Read more »

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