Art and movie

DAILY performances will cheer up staff says stand-up venue

ROSSLYN Chapel's starring role in the Da Vinci Code film is the highlight of 2006 according to Midlothian Council's provost.

SMASH-HIT musical Cats, chart-toppers McFly, and funnyman Roy "Chubby" Brown are all set to appear at the Edinburgh Playhouse next year.

A LEADING city gallery has unveiled a string of major exhibitions for 2007.

A RANGE of world music will be showcased at the annual One World peace concert.

A BOOK festival is coming to the Capital to promote family reading.

Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett star in a misanthropic game of cat and mouse from which no one emerges unscathed, including saps like us who think we’re watching a film about other people.

Try as it might to be refined and provocative, Tom Tykwer's “Perfume” never rises above the pedestrian creepiness of its conceit.

Glen Morgan’s disastrous remake smothers terror beneath a blanket of unnecessary information, revealing too much and teasing too little.

“Children of Men,” the superbly directed political thriller by Alfonso Cuar?n, may be something of a bummer, but it’s the kind of glorious bummer that lifts you to the rafters.