ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. THE JACKET is a film that defies easy description. A mixture of love story, time-travel fantasy, murder mystery and B-movie shocker, it explodes in countless different directions like a catherine wheel. The result is often interesting but still leaves you scratching your head trying to make sense of it all. […]

The Arts Journal focuses on the CHRIS STOUT BAND

Kilmorack Gallery, by Beauly until Friday 20 May 2005

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, in repertory, May 2005

Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Friday 6 May 2005

ALLAN HUNTER at the movies. ANYONE WHO REMEMBERS Au Revoir Les Enfants should warm to Machuca. Like the Louis Malle classic, it is able to reflect a turbulent time in national history through the unlikely friendship of two schoolboys. Here, the setting is Chile in 1973 when the socialist government of Salvador Allende came under […]

Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, Thrusday 5 May 2005

BATTLEFIELD BAND take to the road with a group of musicians from Uzbekistan this month – keyboard player ALAN REID tells the Arts Journal what the project is all about

MARK FISHER finds that Benchtour’s production doesn’t quite pull off its promising satirical start.

STEVE ROBERTSON checks out the recording debut of an award winning Inverness band