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Notes from the Middle Kingdom: Keeping Warm, Chinese Style

Wed 01 Nov 2017

Batter down the hatches and get your slippers on — winter’s coming! Our man in Beijing, Nottingham’s own James Kramer, brings us some tips and tricks for keeping out the winter chill, Chinese style.

With Apologies to The Warriors: A Tale of Nottingham Student Violence

Tue 31 Oct 2017

The students are officially back, so our Ben Knight reimagines The Warriors with a Notts twist...

Gav Thorpe Creates Warhammer Worlds

Sat 28 Oct 2017

With over thirty novels under his belt, author and self-confessed “professional geek”, Gav Thorpe is one of the better-known names in modern fantasy writing. With his novel Warbeast winning the David Gemmel Legend award for best fantasy story earlier this year, we popped round for a chat about his work with the Warhammer franchise...

Film Review: Thor: Ragnarok

Thu 26 Oct 2017

So we saw Thor three...

Film Review: The Death of Stalin

Tue 24 Oct 2017

Armando Iannucci moves from the contemporary Western political sphere and into the bloody world of the post-war Stalinist Soviet Union...

Film Review: The Snowman

Mon 23 Oct 2017

It's received a good old-fashioned shellacking from audiences and critics alike, but what did we think of the latest Jo Nesbo adaptation?

Top 5 Most Successful Marvel Films

Sat 21 Oct 2017

In the run up to the third Thor film, we look the most successful Marvel movies yet…

Review: Mayhem Film Festival, Day Two

Thu 19 Oct 2017

Friday 13th brought on four more films from the Mayhem team...

Review: Mayhem Film Festival, Day Three

Thu 19 Oct 2017

Five features and a whole heap of short films for day three of Mayhem...

17 Horror, Sci-Fi and Cult Flicks We Caught at This Year's Mayhem Film Festival

Thu 19 Oct 2017

Mayhem was finally back, ensuring a glorious four days of horror, sci-fi and cult cinema goodness. We donned our lanyards, filled our bags full of Relentless (other energy drinks are available) and headed down to Broadway...

Review: Mayhem Film Festival, Day Four

Thu 19 Oct 2017

We were bleary-eyed and bloodied, but not-yet beaten. And good job too, because the final day of Mayhem Film Festival 2017 was a clouter...

Film Review: I Am Not a Witch

Wed 18 Oct 2017

Welsh-Zambian director Rungano Nyoni delivers a deadpan satire of witchcraft in her debut feature film

Film Review: The Party

Mon 16 Oct 2017

A party for the political and intellectual elite ends with blood on the floor. Miriam Blakemore-Hoy went to see if The Party was worth attending...

Theatre Review: Dinosaur World

Sat 14 Oct 2017

The dino loving nippers were in awe

Film Review: The Lego Ninjago Movie

Fri 13 Oct 2017

They may be a bastard to step on, but the movie franchise juggernaut is rumbling on...

Film Review: The Work

Wed 11 Oct 2017

Hannah Parker reviews the newest documentary tackling the difficulties of rehabilitation...

Film Review: Blade Runner 2049

Mon 09 Oct 2017

35 years after Blade Runner was released, Harrison Ford is back as Rick Deckard. We went to see if it was worth the wait...

LeftLion Film Podcast #1 - Mayhem Co-Curators Steven Sheil and Chris Cooke

Mon 09 Oct 2017

Here's the first episode of the brand new LeftLion Film Podcast hosted by Derry Shillitto and Ashley Carter. The monthly show will interview different people in the Nottingham film community, starting with Chris Cooke and Steven Sheil - the co-curators of Mayhem Film Festival.