Calgary Bay, Isle of Mull, ended 10 June 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies THERE IS NO escaping the World Cup. Documentaries and dramas crowd the television schedules and every commercial seems to have some link to the beautiful game. If you are hoping to take refuge in the cinema then football rears its ugly head here too. The best of the films on […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies RICHARD E GRANT is the latest star to make a successful transition from actor to filmmaker. Based on incidents from his own life, “Wah Wah” is an affectionate, keenly observed portrait of a volatile father/son relationship set in Swaziland at the last gasp of the British Empire in the late […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies JUST LIKE the central character of the delusional Harlan Fairfax Carruthers, ‘Down In The Valley’ is a film with the best of intentions. It doffs its hat to landmark American cinema of the 1970s like ‘Badlands’ and ‘Taxi Driver’, and gives Edward Norton one of his best roles in some […]

Eastgate Arts Centre, Peebles, and touring 2006

Aberdeen, 10-11 May 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies THE SCOTS have such a passion for football that it’s hard to imagine a country where the game isn’t considered a matter of life and death. You only have to travel back to America in the 1960s to discover a country where it was a matter of complete indifference. One […]

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and touring 2006

Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, and touring 2006

Spa Pavilion, Strathpeffer, 6 May 2006