Castle Douglas High School pupils take over restaurant for the day

The one act play festival at the Fullarton Theatre in Castle Douglas was enjoyed by large audiences who saw eight very different plays over three nights.

DreamWorks Animation had a big hit to close out 2022 with “Puss In Boots: The Last Wish.” Will the studio’s next feature fare as well with critics? Audiences find out this summer when “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” surfs into theaters everywhere in June. The upcoming film follows a teenage girl desperate to fit into her high school who discovers, against her mom’s wishes, that she’s the heir to the throne of the warrior Kraken queens who rule the seven seas.

EXCLUSIVE: Douglas Smith (Big Little Lies), Mark O’Brien (Arrival), Rebecca Liddiard (Alias Grace) and Vinessa Antoine (Diggstown,) have been cast opposite Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) in Seven Veils, the new feature from filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter).

Ashley Graham hasn’t let that awkward 2023 Oscars Hugh Grant interview get her down.

Youngsters at Scruffs Childcare in Castle Douglas had great fun celebrating World Book Day on Thursday.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Bottoms,” a high-school comedy that is brazenly gonzo, scaldingly and at times even dementedly over-the-top, and actually about something, PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) have been best friends since the first grade, but in their senior year at Rock Ridge High they’re at the end of their tether. They’re losers, they’re lonely, they’re lesbians — and in their eyes, that puts them beneath the bottom of the food chain. So they do what anyone in their position might do. They decide to start a fight club! It’s modeled (sort of) on the one in “Fight Club,” though the movie isn’t particularly interested in that film, where the characters staged bare-knuckle brawls out of a kind of self-serious macho romantic doomsday nihilism. In “Bottoms,” PJ and Josie, in the time-honored tradition of teen-movie protagonists out to lose their virginity, are just looking for a way to sleep with the cheerleaders they have crushes on. They build the club around a scurrilous and rather ridiculous lie: that they’ve both spent time in “juvie.” Sitting around in the gym, with a handful of the “normal” girls they’ve roped into joining the club, all of them share stories about the men they’ve had to fend off (stalkers, pervy stepfathers, you name it). And when they get to the fight-club part, letting out their aggression, the jabs are shockingly violent. We laugh, but we also think: What’s going on here?

Bret Michaels celebrated his youngest daughter’s high school graduation Friday, telling the 17-year-old to "rock on!!!" "Jorja, I'm so proud of you on your graduation," the Poison frontman wrote on his Instagram along with a photo of Jorja in her cap and gown. "You rocked with an Unbroken loving spirit.

Why insist on putting yourself through this reliving of your high school experience?One of the things I say a lot when I was trying to get the film made is “I go home so you don’t have to.” I’ve always been interested in archetypal stories or if there’s a story about one person’s life, it’s meant to be something that resonates. Personal films, they only work if people can relate, otherwise it’s just narcissism. How many people are out there who are like me? Who are outsiders? Because one of the things I came to understand by making this film is how the hierarchy and the politics of high school separate us from one another so there’s that sense of “I’m the only one.” It’s kind of like a lost tribe of people that we run away and we don’t necessarily keep up with people.

Two females have been charged after an alleged fight outside a school in Fife.

The cast of a highly successful show at The Fullarton in Castle Douglas have donated profits from a special calendar to charity.

Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa have announced a massive joint tour titled ‘High School Reunion’ across North America.Snoop announced the 33-date run via a poster on Instagram on March 7. The tour will kick off on July 7 in Vancouver before wrapping up the run in Irvine, California on August 27.

Golborne High School in Wigan has celebrated attaining ‘Outstanding’ status following a recent visit from Ofsted.

A 16-year-old boy was murdered during a fight at a California high school this week. Now, his family is left to mourn his loss. On Wednesday morning, a fight broke ou

Elliott Smith in high school between 1985 and 1989 have surfaced online.The albums feature Smith and the friends he was in bands with as a teenager, playing under names including Stranger Than Fiction, A Murder Of Crows, and Harum Scarum.The six newly-surfaced records were obtained and distributed by a fan of Smith’s from Texas called Cameron McCrary. The fan contacted local record stores in Portland, where Smith spent much of his life, and hunted on Discogs to find the albums.

Mayim Bialik learned that she was the celebrity crush of one of the contestants on tonight’s episode of Jeopardy!

Michael B. Jordan is not the kid he was in high school!

Talented pupils from schools across West Lothian fought it out in a Dragons’ Den competition to win a cash prize for their outstanding ideas.

Michael B. Jordan has come a long way since his high school days, but the actor was recently reminded of his past when he reunited with a fellow student who used to bully him.

Life in the public eye hasn’t always been a dream come true for Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) as she navigates a high-profile marriage and social media backlash.

pic.twitter.com/kP6crTsKllThe tension between the two stems from Lore'l 2021 comments about the actor on the "Undressing Room." In the two-year-old interview, the host of the "Undressing Room," not Lore'l, called the actor "a nice corny guy." Lore'l, however, continued with the topic and admitted to often "making fun" of Michael in high school."We teased him all the damn time because his name was Michael Jordan. Let's start there, and he was no Michael Jordan," she said, referring to the NBA player.