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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... 

Poet Andrew McMillan on Gearing Up for His Nottingham Poetry Festival Performance

Georgina Wilding spoke to Andrew McMillan ahead of his Metronome show as a part of Nottingham Poetry Festival on Wednesday 1 May...

The Party Somewhere Else Are Back...

After a year of plotting and scheming since our last festival, we are back with another week of female and non-binary led theatre and this festival is even more rammed than last year! This month we are all set to take over spaces throughout Nottingham Playhouse and (new for 2019!) The Magnificent Spiegeltent with a celebratory week of world-class theatre, dance, poetry, workshops, comedy, circus and cabaret all with a generous side-helping of Party.

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

History of the Weird Midlands Episode Eight: Mysteries of the Midlands, Part Two

Against all odds, we've reached the end of another series! In the season two finale, the gang investigate the mysterious Derbyshire Dogman, the illusive Nottinghamshire big cat, the mind-boggling Hollingwell Incident, and the most mystifying location to have ever graced our fine county: St. Anne's. 

Electronica Producer Max Cooper Will Return to Notts for Wiglex City Festival

Wigflex City Festival is set to be an impressive showcase of the musical talent Nottingham has spawned. One of these names is Max Cooper, an established producer who’s returning to his uni hometown this May. We quizzed Max on the Notts he knew, before he heads back to play...

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

The Nottingham Poetry Festival is Returning This April

Now in its fourth year, Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019 looks set to be the biggest and busiest yet, with an eclectic array of events, workshops and performances filling a jam-packed ten-day schedule between 26 April - 5 May, filling venues like Lakeside Arts Centre, New Art Exchange and Metronome. Our Poetry Editor Chris McLoughlin gives us a run down of some of the highlights...

10 Events to Go to During Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019

We run down some of the must-see events from this year's Nottingham Poetry Festival... 

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?

4 Ways To Spend Record Store Day in Nottingham

Get your nimble fingers at the ready...

Pattern: One Big Party Family

We chat party packs and family feelings with Ryan Newell of Pattern, ahead of the night this Saturday...

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...

Four Four DJ Academy Are Teaching People How to Scratch at the National Justice Museum

Calling all soundboys and soundgirls. The Four Four DJ Academy ball is properly rolling inside the National Justice Museum, for all your mixing, scratching and clashing needs. We headed down to find out what’s been cracking off since they opened in September, and chatted to one of three head honchos Charlie Fletcher...