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4 Ways To Spend Record Store Day in Nottingham

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Art Review: Paint a Poppy Challenge and Open Day at The Society of All Artists in Newark

Newark holds the space used by the Society of All Artists, a cultural hub bringing creative people together to work, inspire and promote themselves both nationally and internationally. We headed down for their Open Day, to check out the society’s new group exhibition Paint a Poppy...

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...

The Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019 Has Launched

We got down to the Nottingham Poetry Festival preview event, at the Fox & Grapes on Friday 5 April, where Notts local scene poets, including our very own Bridie Squires and Chris McLoughlin, came together to give us a sample of what’s to come as the fest this year. The Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019 will take place from Friday 26 April to Sunday 5 May...

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... 

The Harley Gallery Announces Two New Exhibitions

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…

Film Review: Fighting with My Family

WWE studios and Film4 team up to create a heart-warming true story of dreams coming true...

Wavelength: Students Raving All Day For Charity

Oliver Payne has a natter with Lulu Parry-Clarke, Dan Reading and Nathan Stables, of UoN Underground Music Society, ahead of their fundraising bash this Saturday.

LeftLion Film Podcast #16 - Nick Frost

Hosts Ashley Carter & Derry Shillitto chat to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz star Nick Frost about his new film Fighting with my Family and his upcoming appearance at EM-Con Nottingham on May 4-5. 

Film Review: Us

Jordan Peele's follow-up to the enormously successful Get Out is in cinemas now... 

Film Review: The White Crow

The third film from the directorial career of Ralph Fiennes tells the story of Russian ballet icon Rudolph Nureyev and his defection to the West... 

LeftLion Film Podcast #15 - Jessica Hynes

Hosts Ashley Carter & Derry Shillitto chat to BAFTA Award winning actress Jessica Hynes, star of Spaced, Twenty Twelve and W1A, about her new film The Fight. The film, which marks Hynes' directorial debut, is the story of a mother of three who steps into the boxing ring as a method of dealing with the anger that stems from her dysfunctional family and a dark period in her past. 

Film Review: Fisherman's Friends

The remarkable true story of The Fisherman's Friends folk group gets the big-screen treatment... 

Film Review: Everybody Knows

Real-life husband and wife team Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem pair up for Asghar Farhadi's latest feauture. But does their on-screen chemistry make Everybody Knows worth watching? 

Film Review: Captain Marvel

Marvel is either the gift that keeps on giving, or a cinematic plague that's clogging up screens all year round, depending on your point of view. Either way, they're back with another film: Captain Marvel. 

Nottingham's St Patrick's Day 2019 Celebrations in Photos

Photographer Mann Hans got down to Old Market Square on Sunday to snap some picks of your lot...

Film Review: Triple Frontier

After years in production hell, Triple Frontier has finally been released on Netflix. We gave it a gander to see if it was worth the wait... 

LeftLion Film Podcast #14 - Tom Stade

Film Review: Border

Are you human? Can you be sure? And what's your definition of humanity? Swedish movie Border delves into these questions and comes up with some pretty murky answers...

Film Preview: The Fight screening +Q&A with director Jessica Hynes

Jessica Hynes is heading to Broadway Cinema to take part in a live Q&A for her directorial debut film: The Fight

A Breakdown of Bras Not Bombs IWD Festival 2019

Here’s what to expect from the festival in Hockley that some leading local ladies launched this International Women’s Day.

Soundstage Festival Returns to Nottingham This Month

The week long festival has plenty of activities for the whole family...

Life's Rich Tapestry: The Creative Textile Project Encouraging Women to Use Their Voice

Life's Rich Tapestry is a collaboration between Offshoots East Midlands C.I.C and Ignite futures and funded by the Big Lottery, The Arts Council and Nottingham Women's Centre, with the aim of using the creative arts to empower women to use their voice...