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We Catch Up With Swing Dash DJs About Their International Women's Day Livestream

We chat to Swing Dash owner Felix, alongside DJs Aura, Princess Trium, and Beaabea, about their International Women’s Day 24-hour livestream, their own respective projects, and the future of Swing Dash as a studio…

Film Review: What's Love Got to Do with It?

Screenwriter Jemima Khan utilises lived experience for cross-cultural rom-com delight from the production company that gave us Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary...

What To Do This International Women's Day In Nottingham

Celebrate women this International Women's Day with live music, galleries and speeches...

Film Review: Subject

It's a documentary about documentaries - and it's fascinating...

Film Review: Broker

Broker is a brief glimpse of humanity balancing between abandonment and familial appreciation...

Film Review: Cocaine Bear

Does Cocaine Bear deliver everything you'd expect? Pretty much...

We Learn More About The Carousel's Free Community Work Day

A spot for Nottingham freelancers and artists to spend their working days, The Carousel are raising money to offer a free working space one day a week - fighting the isolation that can come with working from home...

Comedy Group Major Labia are Launching Their First Short Film, Witches

Spreading comedy across Nottingham, Major Labia are well-known for their theatre-based comedy shows and absurdist humour. Now the group, who originally met at The Television Workshop, are creating their first short film. Titled Witches, the project explores the dynamics of female surveillance and sexuality. We catch up with Siobhán Cannon-Brownlie, Gemma Caseley-Kirk and Narisha Lawson to chat about the upcoming release…

Castle Rock Launch New Beer to Celebrate International Women’s Day

Sales of the beer will contribute to Nottingham Women's Centre...

Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

It's not going too well for Marvel at the moment...

Film Review: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Heads up Disney, Marcel is coming for that Oscar...

Our Favourite Films of All Time

Preview: Mansfield Town Film Festival

Launching this year, Mansfield Town Film Festival is something to look forward to this summer...

Film Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

It's the dark horse of the year that nobody saw coming - and those kitten eyes have worked wonders on us too...

Film Review: Women Talking

This marks two Oscar nominations and the LeftLion nod of approval for Women Talking...

Pianist and Composer Chris Miggells Talks Music and His Short Film

He’s played at the Theatre Royal. He’s played at the Albert Hall. And, in a fitting tribute to his local roots, he’s played at Clipstone Headstocks. It’s safe to say local pianist and composer Chris Miggells is having a career that very few can match. We hear all about the Mansfield man’s special hometown concert, his upcoming album, Synesthese, and more…

Film Review: She Is Love

Do we love She Is Love? We'd love for you to find out...

The Television Workshop's Ruby Thompson Talks Working on A24 Film Aftersun

If you’re a regular Broadway-goer, or just a lover of indie films, you’ve most likely heard all about Aftersun - the emotive film that made not just one, but two members of the LeftLion team cry. A raw portrayal of fatherhood, childhood and mental health struggles, it’s a very special piece of art created by Charlotte Wells. But more than that, it’s also a showcase of Nottingham talent, with multiple actors from the Television Workshop present in the film. We catch up with talented young actor Ruby Thompson, who plays Laura in the award-winning release...

Film Review: Knock at the Cabin

M. Night Shyamalan’s back with a new taut thriller about the apocalypse… 

5 Events You Should Check Out at This Year's Festival of Science and Curiosity

Film Review: The Felling

The Felling is a new documentary that tells the first-hand account of how ordinary Sheffield citizens stood up against a company waging war on the environment...

The Lonely Cinema Club Dive Into the Link Between Film and Community

Sitting in a room full of people with at least one thing in common… Can there really be such a thing as going to the cinema alone? With the Lonely Cinema Club, Emma Carys wants to showcase the inclusivity and empowerment that film can offer, and prove that cinema is a place of untapped community - especially in Nottingham…

Splendour Festival Announce 2023 Headliners and More

Nottingham’s own Splendour Festival has released the first line-up announcement ahead of its return at the end of July…

The Top Five Films to Watch This February in Nottingham Cinemas

From Rom-Coms to Sci-Fi Thrillers, here's what to watch in the month of Valentines and winter blues...

Film Review: The Fabelmans

Steven Spielberg’s deeply personal, semi-memoir joins a growing list of movie love letters to cinema…