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Entirely Hollow Aside From the Dark - Creswell Crags

Mother Earth comes alive at Creswell Crags, with their ongoing Entirely Hollow Aside From the Dark installation... 

Food Review: Juni

When the weather is scorchio, it’s time to scope out some tapas, sit outside and sip something in a big bulbous glass over loads of ice. Juni on Low Pavement can assist nicely on all these fronts...

The LeftLion Football Podcast - Episode 2: August Review

Hosts Colin Sisson and Gareth Watts bring Episode Two of the LeftLion Football Podcast, covering all the happenings from Forest, County and Mansfield Town. 

Film Review: Pain and Glory

Pedro Almodóvar's semi-autobiographical story is screening at Broadway Cinema now...

Film Review: Hail Satan?

Fabrice Gagos headed down to Broadway Cinema to check out Mayhem's screening of Hail Satan?

LeftLion Magazine #117

Featuring Life on the Canals, Mermaid Cove, Children of Chernobyl, Megatrain, Nottingham Green Festival, Nottingham Contemporary's Tenth Anniversary and more...

Live Music Review: Steve Gunn at The Bodega

We couldn't believe our luck when we heard that revered singer-songwriter and actual guitar hero Steve Gunn was gonna be in town this summer. Here's what went down at his show at The Bodega last night...

Food Review: The Embankment

Without a doubt, The Embankment has the most inclusive menu of all the pubs I know in Nottingham...

Art Review: Lou Lou Sainsbury at Nottingham Contemporary

She presented her new live performance and video work 1667: Not Alive, Just Living.

The LeftLion Football Podcast - Episode 1

Hosts Colin Sisson and Gareth Watts bring you the brand new LeftLion Football Podcast, covering all the happenings from Forest, County and Mansfield Town. 

LeftLion Film Podcast #20 - Neither Wolf Nor Dog director Steven Lewis Simpson

Steven Lewis Simpson, director of Neither Wolf Nor Dog, joins hosts Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto to discuss the history of Native America representation in the cinema, his unique independent distribution methods and his brilliant new film, which is screening at Broadway Cinema from Thursday 22 August...

Film Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino's highly anticipated ninth film is in cinemas now... 

Film Review: Otherhood

Our Miriam Blakemore-Hoy was less-than-impressed with Cindy Chupack's new Netflix film...

Film Review: Vita and Virginia

Chanya Button's new film about the love affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West has divided critical opinion. Here's our two cents... 

Film Review: Blinded by the Light

We went to check out Gurinder Chadha's feel-good story of a British-Pakistani teenager growing up in 1980s Luton whose life is changed by the discovery of Bruce Springsteen...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This August

Film Review: Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

Terry Deary's books might an institution to those of us that grew up in Britain, but how will our French-born film reviewer react to the big-screen adaptation of Rotten Romans?

Theatre Review: Coram Boy

We were hugely impressed by the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company's stage adaptation of Jamilia Gavin’s book, Coram Boy...

Review: The School of Artisan Food's Foraging and Wild Food Cookery Course

We wandered the gardens of the Welbeck Estate to see what delectable delights we could scoff...

LeftLion Magazine #116

Featuring Jason Singh, Dr Tim Gregory, Indy Kiemel-Greene, Nottingham's music promotors, Hoodwinked, Nin Magazine, Nottingham Contemporary and more...

Theatre Review: Wait Until Dark

A blind housewife is in dire straits when murderous conmen target her home

Left Brian: Can Sab Lamouch do the Fandango

Last year during our family holiday in North Wales (sorry Skeggy!) we met a lot of West Midlanders at the holiday camp, most notably Wolves fans. The joy and pride at their recent promotion to the top flight was matched only by their generosity in seeing my son in the Garibaldi red. To paraphrase them, “You’ll be up next year, lad. Can’t go wrong with young Portuguese talent. See you in the Prem!”

Film Review: Knife+Heart

A porn producer, a broken heart, a serial killer… what more could we want from a French thriller?

Left Magpie: Moneyball Arrives at Meadow Lane?

The arrival of Alexander and Christoffer Reedtz as new owners of Notts County has been celebrated by fans as a welcome, fresh start for our beloved and beleaguered club. But what makes this all the more exciting is that they seem determined to finally put an end to the debilitating behaviours of the past.

A Chat With Pat, Who Made An Album About the Moon

Producer, composer and Beeston resident Pat Keista has just released his album E11EVEN which was inspired by the Apollo moon landing of 1969. Rory Evans caught up with him, and had a listen to his tunes...