Cinema

Irish stage and screen star Jessie Buckley says she is terrified of what Glaswegians will make of her latest role as a country singer from the city trying to make it to Nashville - despite spending a month there brushing up on her accent before cameras started rolling.

FOR generations of Leithers it provided a means of escape from the daily grind, firing imaginations both young and old and whisking the masses off to new worlds.

A group of Hibs fans will next month host the English-speaking premiere of a movie depicting Eintracht Frankfurt’s famous German Cup final win against Bayern Munich.

It opened with sweeping views of the three bridges across the Firth of Forth and the unmistakable sight of Arthur’s Seat towering above Edinburgh. It was a breathtaking moment for a big new prime-time BBC One drama – but particularly one made entirely in Scotland for the UK network, writes Brian Ferguson.

Fans of boy band superstars Westlife will have the chance to watch the sold out final show of their UK tour thanks to live screening at SIX Edinburgh cinemas.

The Scottish star on why she’s never had a masterplan

Excited comic fans have the chance to attend special midnight viewings in Edinburgh of one of the most hotly anticipated films of the year on its UK release date.

EDINBURGH Comic Con returns to its home at the EICC this weekend, 6-7 April.

The organisers behind the film festival are offering a chance for budding filmmakers to be featured on the big screen.

FROM jazz giants and Seventies punk heroines to a journey through rock’n’roll’s gospel roots, and from a pianist-provocateur’s tall tales to a crate-digging secret history of library music, Doc’n Roll Scotland promises to entertain music lovers and documentary aficionados alike with Scottish premiere screenings and Q&As with directors, artists and music experts from 25-28 April at the Cameo.

ROBOTS are fascinating.

From the ruthless pepper-pot Daleks to the Class M-3 Model B-9 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot (thankfully just known as Robot) in Lost In Space .

FROM sparring in ring to writing his first novel, former boxer Alex Brown is now ready to take on Hollywood after popular Edinburgh actor and producer Robert Cavanah, 53, read a copy of his novel, Hit Me.

A Hollywood legend’s portrayal of a pioneering Scot in a new blockbuster movie is earning him a tongue-lashing.

Disney fans throughout Edinburgh are being encouraged to put their creativity to the test and design a poster for one of the year’s most hotly anticipated movies.

TAKE a trip around India at the Usher Hall on 30 March in the company of composer Soumik Datta, Cormac Byrne and the City of London Sinfonia.

DOLLY PARTON’S feel good musical 9 To 5 will return to The Playhouse after its current sell-out London West End run comes to an end.

GET ready to pin a sprig of Shamrock to your lapel, it’s nearly St Patrick’s Day, which will see Edinburgh’s Festival of Ireland paint the city emerald green with celebrations across the Capital from tomorrow to 23 March.

ICONIC anthems one and all, the Music of Bond is to be celebrated at the Usher Hall this Autumn.