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We Dive Into Nottingham Forest’s History-Making Season, Which Saw Them Return to the Premier League for the First Time in 8,414 Days

A kebab shop with a firework-fuelled marketing masterstroke. Depeche Mode blaring from passing cars. Our right-back’s mother carried shoulder high in her Calippo-fluorescent replica shirt rhyming ‘shite’ with ‘dynamite’. Red smoke. Handwritten plans taped to a water bottle wrapped in a towel. Que sera, sera…

Waterfront Festival 2022

Robin Hood Town Tour

JD & The FDCs + The Hip Priests

TITUS: T.Rex is King Exhibition

How Repton Filmfest ‘22 Is Bringing the Best of Global Cinema to the East Midlands

If you’re up for a short trip to our beloved neighbouring county, Derbyshire, you can stop by The Repton Filmfest ‘22 this month. An extension of the popular Repton Literary Festival, this three-day event will bring short films from across the globe, legendary filmmakers from across the UK, and cinema fans from across the East Midlands to this quaint historical village. We talk to Tom Craig, film expert and one of the festival’s organisers, all about it…

LeftLion Magazine #149

Our July sports-themed issue, featuring Forest in the Premier League, She's Got Game, Richard Whitehead MBE, Building Notts' Greatest Athlete, the Nottingham Lions, WWE Wrestler Joseph Conners, Kendo, Footfalls & Heartbeats, Big City Reads, Georgina Wilding, Harleighblu, Art of Football, Andy Reid, Nadia Whittome on Palestine and the Notts' soldiers who were at the Battle of Rorke's Drift...

5 of the Best Films in Nottingham Cinemas in July 2022

With highlights including the god of thunder and the king of horror, we've got some belters coming up on the big screen this month...

Champyun Clouds

Courtney Barnett

Preview: Forbidden Forest 2022

This weekend the renowned electronic music festival Forbidden Forest comes to the East Midlands, with a fantastic line-up all taking to the stage within the stunning grounds of Belvoir Estate…

The Bobby Lees

Kate Bush Tribute - Cloudbusting

Marcus King

Film Review: Elvis

Baz Luhrmann’s biopic is a whirlwind of glitter and extravagance, writes George Dunbar…

Under Cover Artist: Maxrock of Totally Brewed

Creating edgy artwork for the Nottingham-based brewery Totally Brewed, Maxrock has always felt a pull toward the scary and dystopian. That’s why he seemed the perfect fit for our fear edition. Combining his love for beer with our theme, we couldn’t be happier with the outcome…

The Felice Brothers

Congi

ROD PICOTT (USA)

Film Review: Everything Went Fine

This French drama is a deeply-moving exploration of the complications of assisted dying, writes Lewis Keech…

Film Review: Il Buco

Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino returns with another contemplative feature on the passage of time…

Mannequin Pussy

Snuff

5 Great Things to Check Out in Nottingham This Week: Highlander, Hang and a Whole Lot More

From claymation workshops to the next big music craze, Notts has a mixed bag of a week coming up...

Overheard in Notts

What do salsa, Hitler, Jamiroquai and eye patches have in common? They're all in this month's Overheard in Notts, of course...