A film from hell

Lars Von Trier's much-hyped horror film, Antichrist, is a tedious, glib joke that would feel like an arthouse parody of a torture porn movie it wasn't so hard to take, says Alistair Harkness in his latest round-up from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which also includes reviews of Humpday, Spread and The Girlfriend Experience.

Also in today's paper, Valery Gergiev interviewed, and Jim Gilchrist celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival.