Opinions & Analysis
A problem called Maria: creative designer?
I’ve long forgiven her all the screaming. It just doesn’t get in the way enough and never has. But recently…
Make them laugh, make them cry...
When I sat down to write my column for this month, I thought back over my last few postings. I’ve…
COLUMN: All propaganda????
Do you ever wonder if what you see by way of location in cinema is nothing more than propaganda? Director…
CANNES 2008: The Women
Great news to hear that one of the top awards at Cannes this year has gone to female Bosnian Director…
A conversation with Thomas Small
Dundee-born Tommy Small remembers the days before The Space was built: he graduated from the Foundation Course at Dundee College…
Opportunity Costs
Kevin Spacey has waxed hostile to what he called the BBC’s ‘13-week promotions’ for Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals. Meanwhile, Arts…
Alfred Hitchcock`s Cockneyisms
"On those occasions when director Alfred Hitchcock interviewed journalists at his Cromwell Road flat, he`d disrobe to the waist, cover…
LA Stories
In his last column, computer science professor and aspiring rock musician Serge Belongie grapples with self doubt over his musical…
Marilyn Monroe: Larger in death
There`s a decided irony and one which probably would amuse Marilyn Monroe herself that La Diva is more famous now…
End of the Line for Misery Memoirs?
If postmodernism has taught us anything it’s that there’s a thin line between fact and fiction. We are taught to…