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The spirit of Ealing comedies is alive and well in Scotland, thanks to one of the most audacious, daft, comedic true crime stories to descend upon us...
News has landed that hit TV sitcom Two Doors Down is to be reprised with a Christmas special. But will the doors of audience appreciation slam back in...
Should all gobby musical voices sound like angels? Or should we should remember we live in a free open society and encourage the individual to shout...
This is an opinion piece written by Brian Beacom. Stacey Solomon didn’t win a Bafta this week for her BBC TV show Sort Your Life out. And I have...
This is an opinion piece written by Brian Beacom. Stacey Solomon didn’t win a Bafta this week for her BBC TV show Sort Your Life out. And I have...
Stacey Solomon didn’t win a Bafta this week for her BBC TV show Sort Your Life out. And I have to say that I’m glad. And it’s not simply...
US President Donald Trump has announced he will introduce tariffs on films made outside of Hollywood. However, in a secret memo revealed today he...
What is it with theatre’s incessant need to produce absurdist plays? Isn’t it all a bit absurd? Right now, the quite brilliant Gary Oldman is...
To say Ninian Dunnett is excited is rather like saying Big Country battered out a couple of passable tunes back in the day. Forty years ago, Dunnett...
Celebrity Big Brother is back, offering the chance for another group of desperates, attention seekers and career plummeters to put their name in the...
A news story in theatre industry bible The Stage this week reads like a call to arms. The artistic director of London’s Yard Theatre warns that cuts...
Why in tarnation is Scotland so fascinated with country music? What makes Caledonian hearts seemingly beat in perfect four/four time on hearing...
A friend texts. We had met briefly at the recent Arthur Miller revival Death of a Salesman at the Glasgow Pavilion, and she wants to compare notes on...
Let’s begin at the end of the conversation with Alan Cumming. Looking back on his career, what’s the work he’s most proud of? Is it his Macbeth?...
No one is saying that Mikey Madison didn’t deserve warm congratulations on achieving Oscar success with Anora, although Demi Moore’s face...
The end of James Bond as we know him is almost assured. The licence to kill, albeit in film terms, hasn’t exactly been revoked, but it’s clearly...
What’s going on with David Tennant? Did he spend too long Time Lording across the universe - in the process turning his brain to space dust? This...
Here's what we have to do, if we have any sense of social conscience and care about the fragile individual. We need to stop watching reality...
Your mission, should you choose to except it, is to keep on reading. Now, the following won’t strike your leg like a ricin-tipped umbrella - but...
Where is Elaine C. Smith at this moment in life? Well, she’s more than happy to be scaring the bejesus out of weans, offering up a creature that’s...