REVIEW: Orphans @ Edinburgh King’s Theatre ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2022-04-13
When you’re in the gutter looking at the stars and a dog cocks its leg over your napper, you’d beContinue Reading
JAZZ REVIEW: Fergus McCreadie album launch @ Edinburgh Queen’s Hall
2022-04-09
The 8th night of April saw Edinburgh Queen’s Hall filled up to receive Scottish jazz scene ‘piano-storyteller’ Fergus McCreadie’s newContinue Reading
REVIEW: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2022-03-30
“People can be f***ers,” says drag queen taking-the-rise Loco Chanelle to drag queen on-the-rise Jamie New. And boy, at “sixteenContinue Reading
REVIEW: Lost Illusions @ Glasgow Film Festival (UK Premiere)
2022-03-11
This award-winning French film is an adaptation of a Balzac novel of the same name. It is the story ofContinue Reading
REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in Uganda @ Glasgow Film Festival
2022-03-07
I loved this unique film about following your dreams. It’s a documentary set in the ghettos of Uganda where IsaacContinue Reading
REVIEW: Bergman Island @ Glasgow Film Festival
2022-03-07
Set in Sweden, on a quiet island where Ingmar Bergman lived and filmed some of his work, an Englishman (TimContinue Reading
REVIEW: Ashgrove @ Glasgow Film Festival (World Premiere)
2022-03-04
The world has changed – again. This time the world’s water supply has been mysteriously poisoned and people must closelyContinue Reading
REVIEW: My Old School @ Glasgow Film Festival
2022-03-04
Glasgow Film Festival 2022 hosts the European Premiere of the remarkable true story of ‘Brandon Lee’. Not Bruce Lee’s sonContinue Reading
REVIEW: Sheila’s Island @ Edinburgh King’s Theatre
2022-03-02
With the dramatic climax of the first half comprising how to cut a sausage with a survival knife, Tim Firth’sContinue Reading
JAZZ REVIEW – SNJO: Pop! Rock! Soul! @ Edinburgh Queen’s Hall
2022-02-26
Pop! Rock! Soul! concert warmed last Friday’s evening at The Edinburgh Queen’s Hall with Joe Locke, Kenny Washington and theContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Enormous Christmas Turnip
2021-12-21
Two floppy-eared bunnies by the name of Hutch and Stew (Ivor Macaskill and Rosana Cade, respectively) find themselves in aContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: A Christmas Carol @ Glasgow Citz
2021-12-18
A Christmas Carol at the Citizen’s Theatre (Tramway) is a proper tribute to Dickens’ story. Written by Neil Bartlett andContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: White Christmas @ The Playhouse
2021-12-16
“The best things happen while you’re dancing,” croons song-and-dance man Dan Burton (a terrific Phil Davis) whose rehearsal process isContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Robin Hood @ Cumbernauld Theatre
2021-12-11
If there’s something strange in the neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Well, when that something is a child-hungry monster andContinue Reading