Film and TV

Caroline Flack, the face of Love Island, has a new job on Channel 4, presenting what can only be described as a new low for television.

Former Emmerdale star Leah Bracknell has died three years after being diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

Of the many things that struck me about the “Declaration of Independence” signed by leading cultural figures, it was the date which stood out the most. It was surely no coincidence that the “guiding principles for a new and better Scotland” were published days before the SNP conference.

Billy Connolly has revealed he has been haunted by stage fright for decades and finds his home city of Glasgow the most difficult place to perform.

From Leith to Game of Thrones, the James Plays, The Victim, Guilt and back

The new film about Judy Garland, as played compellingly by Renée Zellweger, makes Hayley Matthews think about the thousands of men jailed for their sexuality and the homophobia that still blights society today.

After the first Sean the Sheep film made $100 million at the box office in 2015, it has taken four years to produce a sequel. That’s not surprising when a three-second sequence takes three days to shoot. Alistair Harkness visits the Aardman Animations studio in Bristol to meet the team behind the stop-motion Farmageddon

RECEIVING its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival over its middle weekend, Our Ladies (***), Michael Caton-Jones’s adaptation of Alan Warner’s cult 1998 novel The Sopranos, has gone from being a contemporary coming-of-age film to a period piece in the 20 years he’s spent trying to get it made. But with Caton-Jones putting the finishing touches to it just two days before the premiere, its freshly minted arrival felt oddly appropriate. Save for the absence of mobile phones and the prominence of CDs in this 1990s-set tale of six Catholic choir girls from Fort William who use a singing competition in Edinburgh as an excuse for a vodka-fuelled odyssey, the film keeps period nostalgia mostly in check in order to focus on the always-relevant dilemmas of its hormonally charged protagonists.

Robert De Niro has described Donald Trump as a "weird twisted president who thinks he's a gangster".

Politicians currently grappling with Brexit could take inspiration from one of the architects of the Northern Irish peace process by choosing to engage collectively instead of promoting partisan ideals, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker has said.

Katie Price has been banned from driving for two years after failing to turn up to court.

A sketchy, derivative plot and unconvincing effects do for Will Smith’s sci-fi thriller Gemini Man, writes Alistair Harkness

Comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner is upping sticks from his historic Borders home after putting it on the market for £1.7m.

A rare first edition of Ian Fleming's first 007 novel Casino Royale has set a new world record of £55,000 at an auction in Edinburgh.

In just two months, there have been multiple accounts that challenge the idea modern Scotland is as inclusive, open and tolerant as it likes to think, writes Brian Ferguson.

Frosty, frightening and intimidating perfectly describes Emily Mortimer’s latest character.

In April this year Freak Productions sent a camera crew to southern Greenland to record an extraordinary expedition. The plan was to document a project to turn ten ordinary, shy, anxious Scottish teenagers, low on self-esteem and ambition, into role models to inspire their peers.