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Film Review: Il Buco

Tue 28 Jun 2022

Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino returns with another contemplative feature on the passage of time…

We Hear All About Newark Book Festival, the Event Aiming to Celebrate Nottinghamshire’s Literary Community

Sun 26 Jun 2022

Fancy a crime writing workshop? A heritage walk? Perhaps a story told on a riverboat? Well then you’re in luck, because Newark Book Festival has all that and more. Now in its sixth year, the festival is on a mission to celebrate Nottingham’s literary community and the local area. We catch up with Artistic Director Sara Bullimore to find out what’s in store…

40 Years Later: The Thing

Fri 24 Jun 2022

John Carpenter's masterpiece remains one of the greatest horrors of all time, despite its dated visuals...

Food Review: Prickly Pear

Fri 24 Jun 2022

Lizzy O'Riordan headed down to the Mansfield Road meat-free eatery to find out what all the fuss is about...

Film Review: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Wed 22 Jun 2022

An unabashed, laugh-out-loud voyage into the realms of sexual liberation and self-acceptance - this is a film built to shatter repressed, awkward Britain...

Film Review: Spiderhead

Tue 21 Jun 2022

Based on the 2015 short story by George Saunders, the Netflix film Spiderhead is a pillow-fisted disappointment...

We Took a Trip to 200 Degrees’ New Milton Street Store - Here’s What We Thought

Mon 20 Jun 2022

200 Degrees is one of Nottingham's most successful businesses - rapidly becoming big players in the coffee scene. We took a trip to their new store opposite Victoria Centre to see what all the fuss is about...

We Hear All About How the Middle Street Resource Centre Is Celebrating Its Fiftieth Anniversary With an Exciting New Project

Mon 20 Jun 2022

For the past fifty years, Middle Street Resource Centre has been a source of help and advice for Nottingham residents, providing a variety of support groups and volunteering opportunities to promote mental health wellbeing. To celebrate this golden landmark, researchers from Nottingham Trent University will work with past and present service users, staff, volunteers, peer support groups and local residents to record and document stories and experiences. Leading the project is Dr Verusca Calabria who tells us more…

Theatre Review: Derren Brown

Wed 15 Jun 2022

The multi-award winning master of mind control and illusion, Derren Brown is back in Nottingham with Showman, his first new live show for six years…

The Loneliest Fear Of All: Graham Caveney Talks His New Book On Agoraphobia

Wed 15 Jun 2022

Still recovering from a Government-ordered lockdown, it’s no surprise that agoraphobia has been on our minds more than ever before, especially with so many of us being nervous to leave the house. But even with the additional press, the phobia is still a widely misrepresented one, not even fully understood by those experiencing it. In the hopes of learning more, our writer Lizzy O’Riordan read Nottingham author Graham Caveney’s new book On Agoraphobia, and chatted with him about feelings of loneliness, the history of the disorder, and how literature’s agoraphobics acted as his ‘salvation’...

Film Review: Luzzu

Mon 13 Jun 2022

A fisherman casts his rod into the black market in this striking Maltese drama…

Review: Sax and Sopranos with the Hallé

Sun 12 Jun 2022

The Hallé Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall

Review: Detonate Festival 2022

Sat 11 Jun 2022

Nottingham’s outdoor electronic music festival Detonate returned last weekend to the grounds of Colwick Park bringing some of the biggest names in electronic music right now…

Film Review: How to Survive a Pandemic

Fri 10 Jun 2022

A muddled slideshow of pandemic-era suffering or a heartfelt window into racial and economic medical injustice?

Anna Kent Spills All About Her New Book: Frontline Midwife

Fri 10 Jun 2022

While still only in her twenties, Nottingham’s own Anna Kent left her job at the NHS, packed a bag and travelled to Sudan - then an active war zone - to offer her medical expertise to those in need. Now back in the UK and working as a midwife, the 41-year-old has written about her unbelievable experiences in Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe, which provides a powerful story of perseverance, activism, and lessons learned…

Food Review: 13th Element

Mon 06 Jun 2022

Cruelty-free burgers and chicken strips, amazing service and a beautiful venue... what's not to love?

Film Review: Men

Sat 04 Jun 2022

It's proven divisive, but is Men actually any good? Well, we think so...

Thirty Years Later: Alien3

Thu 02 Jun 2022

A bad Alien film? It was once unthinkable, but it happened in 1992 - according to the critics, anyway. But were they right? Sadly, yes...

Film Review: Between Two Worlds

Thu 02 Jun 2022

A tone-deaf exploitation of France’s most vulnerable? Or an insightful exploration into life on the margins? We’re not sure...

Review: Dot To Dot Festival 2022

Wed 01 Jun 2022

Nottingham's famous city centre festival Dot to Dot returned last weekend and it brought a range of phenomenal up and coming local and national artists...

It's One of the UK's Biggest Fears, But We Find Out Why Spiders Aren't All That Bad...

Wed 01 Jun 2022

Spiders - they’re pretty creepy, right? Without a doubt. But they’re also remarkably smart, they play a vital role in our ecosystems, and they are mostly harmless here in the UK. So is it time to start looking at spiders in a different light? Dr Christopher Terrell-Nield, a Biosciences expert at Nottingham Trent University, certainly thinks so…