New Town Thriller

He's been pretty scathing about some of Richard Jobson's films in the past, but our chief film critic Alistair Harkness was pleasantly surprised by his latest offering, the Edinburgh-set chase flick New Town Killers, starring Dougray Scott. You can read his review here.

Also in the Scotsman today, our pop critic Fiona Shepherd is distinctly unimpressed by Elton John's performance at the SECC in Glasgow and books editor David Robinson reports from the launch of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.