JENNIE MACFIE misses the promised triplepipes and the lust in the opening Caledonia Session at the International Festival.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies QUENTIN TARANTINO is the ultimate movie buff. He probably has celluloid in his veins. His long-awaited World War Two epic Inglourious Basterds is a lurid tribute to the likes of The Dirty Dozen and Where Eagles Dare. It is steeped in movie references, from a borrowed soundtrack of evocative old […]

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry, 19 August 2009, and in repertory until October

Festival Theatre, Greyfriars Kirk, King’s Theatre and Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 15-16 August 2009

Spa Pavilion, Strathpeffer Pavilion, 14 August 2009

OneTouch Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 14 August 2009

Argyll, 7-10 August 2009

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies THE SUCCESS of a film often has little to do with the size of its budget. Hollywood can spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars on a Summer blockbuster that feels as soulless as a computer game. Mid-August Lunch is a modest, minimalist tale, but it has the kind of […]

Piping Live!, St Andrew’s in the Square, Glasgow, 12 August 2009

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 11 August 2009, and touring