Art and movie

FORMER Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway, chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, will join crime writer Christopher Brookmyre for the city's two-week Festival of Scottish Writing in May, organised by the city council's libraries service.

Chris Rock has made an unusually insightful and funny mainstream American movie about the predicaments of modern marriage.

The chronicles presented in “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” are as alive and as troubling as anything on the evening news, though far more thoughtful and beautiful.

WILL the arts become a battleground during this May's election? What would Scottish cultural policy look like if the SNP could indeed forge a governing coalition?

“My Brother” is billed as the tale of two poor, orphaned siblings, but it wants to be much more than that.

“Adam’s Apples” — about a neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a rural church — is a weird mix of glib humor with dead-serious spiritual inquiry.

This documentary about the business of reality television illustrates the premise that if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

The sloppy, absent-minded “Premonition” is a step back in time and a giant leap backward for Sandra Bullock.

A bombastic spectacle of honor and betrayal, “300” is about as violent as “Apocalypto” and twice as stupid.

A documentary grab bag of film clips, diary readings and desultory narration, “A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich” peeks at the politics of this controversial composer.