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The Waterfront Festival Snapchat Review

Nottingham's charity festival reviewed in the medium of a well known phone app

Sheep Soup: The Invention of Acting Review

The latest offering from one of Nottingham's best loved theatre companies

Film Review: Star Trek Beyond

The third film in the rebooted franchise is in cinemas now

Film Review: Ghostbusters

This remake has certainly had a tough ride, even before its release - has it been treated unfairly?

Live Music Review: Splendour Festival 2016

The Spoken Word Poetry Explosion in Nottingham

"I have listened to poetry in a chintzy tea house and in a cave deep beneath the streets of Nottingham, from a dear old lady sharing her favourite Pam Ayres poem, to a punk screaming hatred and vitriol"

Live Music Review: ReSoNaTe at The Angel Micro Brewery

With Daniel Ison, Holly Taylor Gamble, Hugo Ivo and Paul Walker

Art Review: Hurvin Anderson and Beverley Bennett Exhibitions

Two exhibitions have landed at the New Art Exchange that deal with the subject of diversity, and they are well worth checking out

Live Music Review: Sweetnotes Festival 2016

A one day festival taking place at the Rescue Rooms and headlined by The Hoosiers

Film Review: Now You See Me 2

Another exciting trailer for the sequel to the 2013 hit - but is the film any good?

Mud Press: Fiery Poetry Publishing from a Proper Notts Lass

Georgina Wilding has started up a business celebrating the written word in all its contemporary glory. With anthologies born from the unboring, market stalls dripping with colour, and a passion that rivals Zach de la Rocha’s, the founder of Mud Press is on a mission…

Film Review: The Hard Stop

We review this new documentary about the police shooting of Mark Duggan in 2011

Film Review: The Secret Life of Pets

We review the new animation from the makers of Despicable Me

Southwell Library Poetry Festival

Next week sees some of the biggest names in literature hit the small village of Southwell. Catch Lemn Sissay, Kate Fox and Daljit Nagra do their wordy thing

Easy Star All-Stars: 10 Years of Radiodread

Guitarist, arranger and producer Michael Goldwasser answers some of our questions ahead of the band's tour to celebrate their tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer album

Film Review: Where You’re Meant To Be

We review this documentary ahead of its screening at Broadway Cinema.

Theatre Review: Ballet Black

The Future of Ballet is Black...

Art Exhibiton Review: Simon Starling at Nottingham Contemporary

"The exhibition is running for a couple more days and I would definitely urge anyone up for a deep think to go and take a look"

Theatre Review: Betrayal

"Inspired by his own affair with BBC Presenter Joan Bakewell, Pinter's Betrayal thrusts us into a tiptoed tournament of domestic games, lies, and deceit"

Film Review: Remainder

This UK film about a man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object is released on VOD soon

Becky Cullen is Newstead Abbey's Poet-in-Residence

"When I started the residency I knew a bit about Lord Byron's poems, but I understood very little about him. I've discovered that he was a complex man"

Live Music Review: Amulet, The Hijinks and Sonder at The Bodega

We report back from a night of new Notts music

Film Review: Embrace of the Serpent

Nominated in the Best Foreign Language category at 2016's Oscars, this Colombian film is one of the best of the year

Film Review: Tale of Tales

Based on the seventeenth century Italian poet Giambattista Basile’s collection of fairy tales, this film intertwines a trio of weird and wonderful stories concerning the elites of society.

Review: In Conversation with Author Pat Barker

“Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer"