ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES may have been published in 1782 but it retains a powerful fascination for modern filmmakers. Six years ago, Cruel Intentions set the story of sexual intrigue and scandal among jaded teenagers in contemporary America.    Two years ago, Scotland provided the setting for a new French television […]

ROBERT LIVINGSTON returned to Forres for a second dose of the Bard, as the Royal Shakespeare Company on Tour turned from Roman Tragedy to the romantic comedy of Two Gentlemen of Verona.

As the current election campaign turns ever nastier, ROBERT LIVINGSTON gets a taste of power politics two thousand years ago in the first of two visiting Royal Shakespeare Company productions at Forres.

PETER URPETH reports on the latest developments in the ongoing Sail Loft Project in Stornoway.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. SYDNEY POLLACK is a past master of the intelligent mainstream thriller. The veteran Oscar-winner has been responsible for Three Days Of The Condor, Absence Of Malice and The Firm. Now, he boldly goes where even Alfred Hitchcock was denied access with The Interpreter, an absorbing conspiracy thriller set in the […]

GEORGINA COBURN finds the Curve Foundation Dance Company’s Spring Tour offers an exciting opportunity to see dance stripped down to the strength of its bare bones.

JULIE FOWLIS has been very busy of late, what with her own debut solo album, a new disc from Dòchas, and lots of touring and gigging. We caught up with her on an increasingly rare return to Dingwall, where she was catching her breath before Dòchas launched on an eagerly anticipated Tune Up tour with the Michael McGoldrick Band

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. MUSIC STARS rarely make the grade as actors. Even the semi-successful ones like Sting and Mick Jagger have become strangers to the screen.    Ashley Walters might just be the exception. The former Asher D of So Solid Crew, Walters makes an impressive screen debut in ‘Bullet Boy’, revealing a […]

The Arts Journal takes a look at the latest developments for DÒCHAS, one of the top young bands on the Scottish folk scene

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. IS THERE ANYTHING left to say on the evil of Hitler and the collapse of the Third Reich? That  might have seemed like a rhetorical question until the arrival of the Oscar-nominated epic Downfall. Based on vivid, first hand accounts of what truly happened in the Spring of 1945, this […]