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Derek McarthurHerald Scotland |
In the Errol Morris documentary American Dharma, Morris sits down with Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon to discuss politics and films in an...
This month sees the release of Mufasa: The Lion King, another entry in Disney’s photorealistic revival of its older, much-loved animated properties....
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how audience behaviour in cinemas has been getting worse in recent years. Now with the film adaptation of Broadway...
When Dani Garavelli wrote in this newspaper about the derision and condescension of working-class students by the private school-educated at Edinburgh...
One of the supposed silver linings of Donald Trump’s presidential win in 2016 was all the great art we would get. The flames of discontent were...
A spectre is haunting your local cinema – the spectre of having no idea how to behave when in a cinema. No, I’m not the fun police. Nor am I...
“Nobody takes anything f*cking seriously anymore,” starts a now-deleted rant from ambitious alternative musician Ethel Cain. “It makes me feel...
The art of speeding up and slowing down music is probably not new to anyone. Many first found such wonders mischievously playing around with the...
The biggest come-up of the year surely belongs to pop star Chappell Roan. The singer has seen a neck breaking rise in the past few months, becoming...
Fandom can be an intense thing. Unsettling, even. Not only are there swarms of Beatles fans who think that the involvement of Yoko Ono is solely...
Some myths apparently never die. For some, it’s called conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom that Yoko Ono broke up the most famous pop...
Being asked for your song to be licensed for one of the biggest franchises ever would normally be a cause to celebrate, but for Heaven 17’s Martyn...
In the 2010s, a major consensus shift took over music. Everyone started to take pop music far more seriously, with the term ‘poptimist’ springing...
Scotland’s arts and culture sector is drowning, and there is no life raft. No skin comes off the backs of governments when cutting the arts is...
And so it’s written, Glasgow School of Art will no longer post on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, X. You don’t have to...
David Lynch says he will never retire – but he certainly won’t set foot on a film set again. That was the news when the 78-year-old surrealist...
As it is and always will be, politicians and campaigns love to get in on the joke, and then the joke's over. That became clear again when pop...
“And that’s when he unalived himself, as well as his wife and children,” says one true crime TikTok user as she demonstrates her new Wonderskin...
If you’ve heard Queen’s megahit ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in an advert, film trailer or thrown into radio and streaming playlists once again, it’s...
It’s only natural to look towards the thing we know best when interpreting art and literature: ourselves. After all, how can we make sense of such...
There’s a well-known phenomenon of famous musicians dying at the age of 27. It’s a cliché set in stone at this point, a shortcut to visions of...
As soon as people saw reports of a soup-drenched Van Gogh painting, a collective visceral anger broke out. And why would it not? Protesters were...
Earlier this month, it was announced that the Oban Phoenix Cinema would be closing, with all staff made redundant. It was a familiar tale. Bathgate...
An integral and important part of our culture has been pushed into the realm of the mere hobby. Something is missing from the world of music, and that...
If you’re an avid fan of live music in Glasgow, chances are you’ve been to the Glasgow Hydro recently. Chances are also that you’ve returned to...
Do you ever hear a song and think it’s from a previous decade, only to find out it’s from one of the hot new properties of the music industry? Do...
Are the descriptors ‘highbrow’ and ‘lowbrow’ relevant anymore to the world of art? The notion of highbrow and lowbrow art is one originally...
Last week, legendary director/producer Roger Corman passed away at the grand age of 98 years old. To say it was a life well lived would be an...
Everyone is, understandably, so negative these days. There’s endless list of grievance. Our politics is rotted inside out. Our institutions have...
How long while watching a film before you think “when does this end?” According to new market research, that point for most is 92 minutes. More...
Could the vinyl record industry be a victim of its success? Or, rather, Taylor Swift’s success? Vinyl records have ridden an upward trajectory in...
Former prime minister David Cameron once said that his favourite piece of film ever is “the last 10 minutes of Shrek 2”. His successor Theresa May...
Before discussing the Mona Lisa, where did Leonardo da Vinci stand on the role of the papacy in Renaissance-era Italy? Do our personal feelings...
It's no surprise that a film that aimed to “push the boundaries of what it means to create and show dyke sex on screen” would cause controversy,...
The video market of the 1980s was the greatest thing to happen to low-budget horror filmmaking. No longer were splatter fests confined to the dark,...
Film crashed into the 20th century, quickly establishing itself as a perfect vehicle for influence. The first propaganda film was probably already in...
It’s not a groundbreaking statement to say that the Academy Awards has never been about excellence in film. In fact, it’s about...
It used to be that mainstream movies were made because people wanted to see them. The idea would have enough legs that studios knew they’d make...
Will AI be the nail in the coffin for the filmmaker? Is the creative just some abstract concept we’ve stubbornly held onto through the ages, ready...
Jonathan Glazer’s latest film The Zone of Interest immediately drags you into its aura. More than two minutes of black screen, accented by the...
Jonathan Glazer’s latest film The Zone of Interest immediately drags you into its aura. More than two minutes of black screen, accented by the...
At the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift announced the title of her new album: The Tortured Poets Department. Well, if there was any artist to...
Are sex scenes ‘unnecessary’? Do they really have to just… show everything? It’s a sentiment showing up increasingly in the past few years,...
Pitchfork staff last week did not expect to receive a memo announcing that the long-running music website was folding under the GQ banner. They also...
The film adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things provoked a weird sort of jingoistic fury. A writer setting his novel in his hometown, only...
2023 was a transitional year for rap. After the attention to drill rap subsided, it seemed no one really knew what direction the genre needed to go...
The Bute House Agreement between the SNP and Greens saw a cascade of headlines centred around the constitution, environmental policy, and how the...