Finally, a decent film about Iraq

"A movie about Iraq that's actually worth watching" - that's how our film critic Alistair Harkness summed up Kathryn Bigelow's new war movie The Hurt Locker on the first day of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. To read his review, click here.

Also in the paper today, our classical music critic Kenneth Walton looks forward to the St Magnus Festival, and as the Glasgow Jazz Festival gets underway, Jim Gilchrist talks to one of its star acts, Benin-born guitar-slinger Lionel Loueke.