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Sinners

Sinners

Release date (UK): 2025 | Country: US, Australia, Canada | Running time: 137 min | Genres: Period - Horror - Drama | Director: Ryan Coogler | Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Saul Williams. | BBFC 15 By Jack Weir Ryan Coogler, director of the Black Panther films, delivers an action-packed musical thriller that is the towering

Splendid isolation

Splendid isolation

Clear by Carys Davies Novel ideas from Catherine By Catherine Williams, Vice Chairperson, St Duthac Book and Arts Festival "He wished he could swim – the swimming belt felt like a flimsy thing and it had been no comfort to be told not to worry, the men couldn’t swim

50 years of Sutherland... ... and 800 years of Clan Ross

50 years of Sutherland... ... and 800 years of Clan Ross

We reproduce here Jason Ubych’s talk on the story of Ardgay & District that he was invited to read at the Ardgay in Sutherland Golden Jubilee celebration in May. By Jason Ubych, Curator, Tain & District Museum & Clan Ross Centre Tain Museum I’ve brought something with me

Report highlights the imbalance of  who benefits from the green energy boom

Report highlights the imbalance of  who benefits from the green energy boom

By Hans J Marter, Shetland News Editor   A new report on the social value of the renewable energy boom in the Scottish Highlands and Islands has confirmed what most people living in the area had already suspected: there is a wide disparity in how host communities benefit from such projects.

These Dry Stone Walls

These Dry Stone Walls

(Poem / song) By Dave Goulder © EFDSS Music   These miles of dry stone walls  That hold in ploughed brown fields and kingly halls  The dead of centuries in hills of sand  The stones that bind them  Are proud, as what lies behind them  And varied as the counties in this curious

I’m still here

I’m still here

Release date (UK): 2024 | Country: Brazil | Running time: 137 min | Genre: Drama - History | Director: Walter Salles | Starring: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello. | BBFC 15 By Jack Weir I’m Still Here is a poignant biographical drama following the true story of the disappearance of Rubens Paiva under the Brazilian

Lingering, exquisite and subtle

Lingering, exquisite and subtle

Long Island by Colm Tóibín by Lottie Fyfe Long Island by Colm Tóibín (2024) follows the critically acclaimed Brooklyn (2009), which saw Eilis Lacey return to America and her husband Tony after an unexpected romance in her rural Irish hometown of Enniscorthy. Now, it’s the mid-seventies, Eilis is