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We Are Recruiting: Marketing and Editorial Assistant

Wed 12 Jan 2022

We are delighted to announce that we are offering another paid role at LeftLion as part of the Department of Work & Pensions Kickstart Scheme.

Theatre Review: How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

Tue 11 Jan 2022

After a two-year delay due to COVID, Fin Kennedy’s How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found is finally at Lace Market Theatre for a five-day run. Theatre Editor Rebecca Buck headed down there to see if it was worth the wait...

Film Review: Licorice Pizza

Sat 08 Jan 2022

Paul Thomas Anderson maintains his winning streak…

Exhibition Review: ESW-213 Pine at TG Gallery

Sat 08 Jan 2022

Pine furniture boards are set against bare white walls in TG Gallery, as Lawrence Leaman’s latest solo exhibition explores the intersection of textile, contemporary art, and the humble wooden shelf…

Film Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth

Wed 05 Jan 2022

Joel Coen goes solo for this passion project. But is one Coen as good as two?

Rebecca Grant Chats BBC’s Showtrial, Working With Line of Duty Producers and Growing Up in Nottingham

Wed 05 Jan 2022

Actress, singer, dancer and artist – Rebecca Grant has done a lot since growing up in Nottingham and beginning her career in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical Bombay Dreams, aged just nineteen. We chat to the talented all-rounder about her time in Notts, passion projects and her most recent appearance in BBC’s Showtrial…

LeftLion Magazine #143

Tue 04 Jan 2022

Our first mag of the new year features Christian Weaver on The Law in 60 Seconds, Mesopotamia, Local High Streets, Nadia Whittome, Veganuary Delivered, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Rebecca Grant, Kingdom Rapper, The Dilettante Gazette, Sir Francis Willoughby and loads more...

Film Review: The King's Man

Fri 31 Dec 2021

Over two years after its planned release, The King's Man is finally here. But was it worth the wait?

Gig Review: Terrorvision at Rock City

Fri 31 Dec 2021

Terrorvision were in town with their Christmas Party for the last Rock City gig of 2021, and there seemed no better band to see out the year with...

The Nottingham Culture Review of 2021

Fri 31 Dec 2021

A year that started badly, but ended with something of a return to normality. Long may it continue...

LeftLion Film Podcast #29: Part 2 - The Worst Films of 2021

Thu 30 Dec 2021

After three years and about as many listenable episodes, hosts Ashley Carter and Derry Shillitto sign off on their final LeftLion Film Podcast where they are joined by new hosts George White and Jamie Morris to discuss the worst films of 2021...

We Went to Hatchet Harry's and Became Axe-Throwing Gods... Sort Of

Thu 30 Dec 2021

We're going to have to axe that you check this out for yourself...

LeftLion Film Podcast #29: Part 1 - The Best Films of 2021

Wed 29 Dec 2021

Film Review: Don't Look Up

Tue 28 Dec 2021

Jonah Hill outshines even Leonardo DiCaprio in this incisive satire…

TV Review: Hawkeye

Thu 23 Dec 2021

Hawkeye brings a bit of festive cheer to the MCU, with a slightly goofy take on the Marvel house style…

(Un)rest: Young Producers at City Arts Review

Thu 23 Dec 2021

The annual takeover of the City Arts window facing out onto Hockley is here. As part of the Young Producers arts collective, The Window Gallery is transformed into a site of protest and rebellion, as placards and works of abstraction fill the space. What happens when we speak up? And what does it look like when art and protest meet?