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Left Panther: April (End of Season Review)

Sat 09 Apr 2016

"The weekend brought a sweet taste to the mouth and a fitting end to the season."

Film Review: Couple in a Hole

Sat 09 Apr 2016

Kate Dickie and Paul Higgins star as the said couple, living off the land in the French Pyrenees

Film Review: Badlands

Fri 08 Apr 2016

The 1973 film from Terrence Malick is showing at Nottingham Contemporary this Sunday

Film Review: Victoria

Thu 07 Apr 2016

Impressively shot in one continuous and unfaked take, but is this German film actually any good?

Theatre review: Toast

Wed 06 Apr 2016

The witty story of workers on nightshift in a bakery, somewhere in Hull

Film Review: Zootropolis

Sat 02 Apr 2016

Disney's latest film is set in a city full of anthropomorphised animals

Literature Review: Austerity Cafe

Tue 29 Mar 2016

Local poet Andy Szpuk's long-form literature show that uses poetry and music to take a look at austerity

Short Film Review: The Captain

Tue 29 Mar 2016

A delightful little tale about youth, death, misery and revenge

With Don Wright's Forever Forest, Jaq Hazell's I Came to Find a Girl, Darren Simpson's Dust on the Moth, Judith Allnatt's The Silk Factory, Carl Peter Robinson's A Dip in the Jazz Age, and Gerard Byrne's No Man's Audience

Film Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane

Fri 25 Mar 2016

We give our verdict on the new film set in the same world as 2008's Cloverfield

Theatre review: Hobson's choice

Tue 22 Mar 2016

Classic comedy as a red nosed bootmaker struggles to tame his three class conscious daughters

Theatre Review: Annie

Tue 22 Mar 2016

"The idea that a rich bachelor wants to borrow an orphan child for a couple of weeks rings alarm bells in this day and age"

Music Reviews: March 2016

Tue 22 Mar 2016

With Heck, Sam & Joe, Some Skeletons, Felix M-B, The Five Hundred, Daniel Shipley, Bru-C, Be, and Friend of a Friend

Judith Allnatt on Novel Inspired by the Luddites

Mon 21 Mar 2016

"I began to wonder what would have happened if the weavers in the village had rebelled, with the might of the cavalry right on the doorstep"

Theatre Review: The Tailor of Inverness

Sat 19 Mar 2016

The play that asks whether you can ever go home again...

Live Music Review: Island Life Tour 2016 at Lee Rosy's

Thu 17 Mar 2016

Sofar Sounds and Island Records teamed-up for a night of intimate performances at our favourite tea shop

Film Review: High-Rise

Thu 17 Mar 2016

Tom Hiddleston stars in this adaption of JG Ballard's cult classic

Art Review: Carole Hawthorne at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

Wed 16 Mar 2016

"There is an overall sense of structure, repetition and use of shape within each piece, yet Hawthorne's line-making has a playful, free-flowing aspect to it that radiates personality"

Film Review: The Witch

Mon 14 Mar 2016

This new horror set in the time of early America stars two local child actors

Theatre Review: Cosi Fan Tutte

Sun 13 Mar 2016

An opera with the plot of an Adam Sandler movie...?

Theatre Review: Women's Hour

Sun 13 Mar 2016

The wonderfully titled Sh!t Theatre brought their satirical feminist humour to Nottingham Playhouse for two nights

Live Music Review: Heck Album Launch At The Rescue Rooms

Sun 13 Mar 2016

Performing their debut album Instructions in full

Theatre Review: Touretteshero's Backstage in Biscuitland at Nottingham Playhouse

Thu 10 Mar 2016

"Joyful, open and ruddy hilarious. Confident in its simplicity and full of the vitality of life, it proves Tourette's is much less 'demonic possession', much more 'brain having a 24/7 creativity party'"