Feature films shot on celluloid are becoming an endangered species in Hollywood. Huge advances in digital camera technology over the last fifteen years have meant that many directors and cinematographers are now wholeheartedly embracing a method of film-making which offers filmic quality without the excessive cost and inconvenience of utilising traditional film cameras. This paradigmatic […]
The second collected volume of Grant Morrison’s Batman Incorporated is due be released in May, and will also rather confusingly be titled “Volume 1”. The reason for this sequential anomaly is DC’s new shift in company-wide continuity, dubbed “The New 52”. As far as the company is concerned, all series set in the main DC […]
Café W is a relatively new enterprise, launched as part of the refurbishment of the Waterstones brand, last year. There are only a handful of these Waterstones-run coffee shops, and the Edinburgh West End branch is one of these select few. Jonathan Taylor is the manager of Café W Edinburgh West End, and he took time out […]
Griff Williams, avid videogamer and creative writer of stuff, casts his probing eye on the recent PlayStation 4 news… Andy Jamieson, Editor Well, the latest generation of the Console Wars is drawing to a close, and the more I look back upon it the closer I come to the unhappy conclusion that the […]
Bedlam is the latest novel from Christopher Brookmyre, who you may know for his delicious, dark, funny crime writing, or his gothic horror / Doom 3 re-enactment ‘Pandaemonium’. I’m going to get right to the point: as somebody who has played more than enough computer games in his time, I can’t recommend this enough. […]
Axel Scheffler was third choice illustrator for his initial debut collaboration with Julia Donaldson, back in 1993. Twenty years on it has proved a successful creative partnership that has resulted in such classics as The Gruffalo, and its sequel (both successfully animated for the small screen, by Magic Light Pictures), Stick Man, Room On […]