Art and movie

GOYA was not a happy man. Not if the collection of prints currently on show at the National Gallery are anything to go by.

A RISING band are to play in a city library as part of a tour of similar facilities around the UK.

AN auction of art in aid of victims of child abuse in Edinburgh and the Lothians has raised more than ?4600.

“Night at the Museum" adheres to the current Hollywood philosophy that coherence doesn’t matter if enough stuff is thrown onto the screen.

Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" is, above all, a muscular and kinetic action movie, a drama of rescue and revenge with very little organic relation to its historical setting.

“Eragon” is what happens when misguided studio executives option a novel written by a teenager (Christopher Paolini) with a head full of Anne McCaffrey and Ursula K. Le Guin.

A fairy tale in realist drag, “The Pursuit of Happyness” is the kind of entertainment that goes down smoothly until it gets stuck in your craw.

Steven Soderbergh attempts to resurrect the magic of classical Hollywood, principally by sucking out all the air, energy and pleasure from his own filmmaking.

Directed by Robert De Niro, “The Good Shepherd” is an original story about the C.I.A., and for the filmmakers that story boils down to fathers who fail their sons.

“We Are Marshall” is the kind of crassly formulaic movie in which everything hinges on a single play in the final seconds of a big football game.