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Film Review: Thunder Road

Actor, writer, director and all-round force of nature Jim Cummings has turned his award-winning short Thunder Road into a feauture-length film that is screening at Broadway Cinema from this Friday... 

LeftLion Film Podcast #19 - Game of Thrones: The Final Episode

Hosts Ashley Carter & Derry Shillitto watch the final episode of Game of Thrones, providing ill-researched, ill-informed and largely uneccessary commentary...

Film Review: Tolkien

A fan of The Hobbit? This film takes you back to where it all began.

Film Review: The Hustle

Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway star in Chris Addison's remake of comedy classic Dirty Rotten Scoundrels...

Film Review: High Life

Claire Denis's slow-paced space drama is a far cry away from the alien-filled adventure films that normally make up the sci-fi genre...

Preview: Shots in the Dark Film Festival at Broadway Cinema

Broadway's crime, mystery and thriller season returns with retrospectives, previews, rare classics and visits from legendary film VIPs....

Film Review: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Following on from his Conversations with a Killer... documentary, director Joe Berlinger is back with another Ted Bundy film, this time starring Zac Efron as the serial killer... 

Film Review: Vox Lux

Brady Corbet's allegory for the decline of the American dream is in cinemas now... 

Film Review: Eighth Grade

Bo Burnham's story of an introverted teenager trying to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school is in cinemas now...

LeftLion Film Podcast #18 - Bella Ramsey: Game of Thrones

Hosts Ashley Carter & Derry Shillitto are delighted to be joined by actress Bella Ramsey, fresh from her role as Lady Lyanna Mormont in the final series of Game of Thrones. They talk about being the number one trending person on Twitter this week, filming her final scenes for the show and her new role as an Ambassador for The Prince William Award through Nottingham charity SkillForce... 

And for the first time in LeftLion Film Podcast history, we've got a prize to give away: You can get your hands on a brand new, official Game of Thrones Monopoly set hand signed by Bella by listening... 

Film Review: Avengers: Endgame

It's the big one we've all been waiting for...

Film Review: Shazam!

In amidst all of the Marvel hoopla going on at the moment, DC are here to remind us that they're still very much in the game... 

LeftLion Film Podcast #17 - Jonny Owen

Hosts Ashley Carter & Derry Shillitto talk to actor and filmmaker Jonny Owen about his 2015 documentary I Believe in Miracles, and his new role as director at Nottingham Forest

Film Review: Red Joan

Trevor Nunn directs Dame Judi Dench in the story of the 1930s Cambridge student who was arrested for passing classified information to the Soviet Union...

Film Review: Unicorn Store

A woman named Kit receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfil her childhood dreams in Brie Larson's feature-length directorial debut...

Film Review: Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story

Oh blimey, the Frank Sidebottom story is totally bobbins

Film Review: Pet Sematary

Stephen King's cult classic novel gets the big screen treatment for the second time...

Review: Fortune & Glory Film Club Presents Empire Records

We headed down to the latest screening hosted by the brilliant Fortune & Glory Film Club: Empire Records...

Film Review: Wild Rose

Tom Harper's story of a young Glaswegian girl's county music dreams hits a bum note...

Film Review: Dumbo

Do you believe an elephant can fly?

Interview: James Waring, The Invisible Orchestra

Rachael Halaburda grabbed James Waring for a chat to learn more about his massive band...

Film Review: Happy as Lazzaro

Alice Rohrwacher's beautiful story of the good-hearted peasant Lazzaro is back at Broadway Cinema...

Film Review: The Sisters Brothers

Two gun-slinging siblings stomp through 1850s Oregon on the search for gold in Jacques Audiard's off-beat Western...

Film Review: The Highwaymen

Initially scheduled to feature Paul Newman and Robert Redford, The Highwaymen has been stuck in production hell for well over a decade. Having been resuscitated by Netflix, and with a new acting line-up of Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, the story of the men tasked with killing Bonnie and Clyde is finally available to watch... 

BAFTA-Winning Actress Jessica Hynes on Her Directorial Feature Film Debut

As an actress, Jessica Hynes has been a mainstay of British film and television since her breakthrough role alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Spaced. Since then, she’s gone on to star in The Royle Family, Son of Rambow and W1A, for which she won a BAFTA Award in 2015. This year saw her step into the ring as a director for the first time with The Fight, a drama about a mother of three who uses boxing as a way of facing her demons…