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Review at a glance T he queues stretch round the block for Adam Meggido’s Boris Johnson satire, and it’s easy to see why. This is an Edinburgh fringe whose line-up largely ignores recent major world events – it’s full of tender, thoughtful shows dreamt up pre-pandemic, pre-cost of living crisis,Continue Reading

H aving spent the best part of my childhood evenings sat on the sofa gasping incredulously as Hercule Poirot announces the murderer from a line-up of characters both highly questionable and amusing in equal parts, I would like to think of myself as somewhat of a whodunnit connoisseur. Naturally thrillerContinue Reading

W hen they hear the words “sea shanty”, most people think only one thing: The Wellerman. Though the art form has been around for hundreds of years, it shot to prominence during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Scottish postman Nathan Evans went viral for posting his take on the shanty onContinue Reading

T he Edinburgh Festival Fringe started on Friday and at the last count there were 1,130 different comedy shows to choose from. And that’s without including the free gig refuseniks that choose not to appear in the official brochure. If you are on a flying visit to the Scottish capital,Continue Reading

The Chromatica star took to Instagram on Thursday evening to post a musical teaser clip of the film titled Joker: Folie à Deux, which translates to Joker: Madness for Two. The animation of two lovers is set to the backing track of Cheek to Cheek, a song that the AContinue Reading

Review at a glance C alvin Harris’ 2017 album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 was a defining moment in the career of the superstar DJ. After starting out as an electro-pop dork in the late ‘00s, the Scot then turned himself into an EDM titan across the following decade, makingContinue Reading

Review at a glance W hat’s French for piffle? Martin Bourboulon’s lush and wannabe rousing Gustave Eiffel biopic purports to give us the passions of the civil engineer behind the famous Parisian monument in which the protagonist says “Eiffel in Love” not once but twice, with the same woman. AccordingContinue Reading

I TV has officially confirmed that I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! will be returning Down Under for the 2022 series after two years away. The long-running reality series will bid farewell to Gwrych Castle, North Wales, a place the show has called home since 2020 when theContinue Reading

A new full-length trailer for Andor, the Disney+ Star Wars prequel series has finally been released. And as could have been predicted, fans are going wild for the two-minute and thirty-second clip which is trending on YouTube and has already racked up nearly five million views. This is the GalacticContinue Reading