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10 Years Later: Captain America: The First Avenger

It's been a decade since the Star Spangled Man first came up with his plan. But how does Captain America: The First Avenger hold up ten years later?

25 Years Later: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Disney’s adaptation of the French literature classic celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, telling the story of the disfigured bell ringer Quasimodo who longs for a life on the outside...

25 Years Later: Trainspotting

This British classic and its brilliant soundtrack remain just as vital today, writes Manvir Basi...

40 Years Later: Clash of the Titans

Special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen’s swansong still delivers excitement and awe four decades later…

10 Years Later: Green Lantern

It's remembered as being so bad that it's become meme material. But is there anything to enjoy about Green Lantern? We take a look 10 years on... 

Nottingham Poetry Festival's Creative Director Anne Holloway on Her Career Highlights and What You Can Expect from This Year's Festival

As Creative Director for Nottingham Poetry Festival, founding editor of Big White Shed and a former member of Mouthy Poets, Anne Holloway has just about seen and done it all on the Notts poetry scene. She talked to Bridie Squires about her work, career and what to expect from the upcoming festival...

Phoebe Boswell's Here is Finally Opening at the New Art Exchange After a Year's Delay

Phoebe Boswell's exhibition Here sat half-put together at New Art Exchange from April 2020, unable to open for just over a year while we on the outside battled with lockdown and months of separation. But in early May, the award-winning artist was back in Nottingham putting the finishing touches together, to finally prepare to open her show.

Here is a beautiful accumulation of the nuances and complexities of communities, voices, hearts, and histories which, like her own, are often systematically marginalised, simplified, pacified, homogenised, or side-lined as 'other'. These different perspectives collide and become monumental together. Combining draftswomanship and digital technology, layering drawing, animation, sound, video, and interactivity, the exhibition brings together new and existing artworks, some of which have not been seen in the UK before. Rachel Willcocks caught up with Phoebe to find out about her work, and how she’s found the past year...

30 Years Later: The Silence of the Lambs

The psychological horror classic The Silence of the Lambs celebrates its 30th year of terrifying audiences of all generations with the story of cannibal Hannibal Lecter...

Skate for Life: Chris Lawton on How Skateboarding in the City Has Progressed Over the Past Year

Skate Nottingham’s Chris Lawton reflects on the events of the past year, exploring how skateboarding continues to help people in Nottingham...

Mayhem Film Festival to Return to Broadway This Year

After hosting a scaled-down 'Skeleton Event' last year, the organisers of the iconic Mayhem Film Festival are hoping to bring the event back to its full gory glory this October.. 

Ten Years Later: Thor

Michael Vince looks at one of the earliest entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a decade since its release...

Five Years Later: The Boy and the Beast

The Boy and the Beast, animator Mamoru Hosoda’s sixth film as director, is a familiar but occasionally heartwarming coming-of-age fantasy…

Win Tickets to Every Motorpoint Arena Show For the Next Year

Nottingham's biggest live venue are welcoming people back with the biggest competition in their history...

40 Years Later: Ms .45

Ms .45, the second feature film by the controversial cult icon Abel Ferrara, is a powerful and haunting descent into trauma and revenge, writes Sebastian Mann…

School of Hard Notts: Twelve Year Old Jagoda Brown-Polanowska on Returning to Class and Saving the Planet

Jagoda Brown-Polanowska has been contributing to LeftLion throughout the pandemic, updating us on the state of affairs through the eyes of a twelve-year-old. As students have returned to a COVID-age schooling, we hear how uncomfortable masks, loneliness and Google Meet are a part of the story that shaped the next generation… 

Young Creative Awards 2021: Writer Andrew Tucker on Creativity and Why You Should Enter This Years' Competition

Writer and 2019 winner Andrew Tucker talks to previous winners of Nottingham’s Young Creative Awards about their creative process and how your life can change by entering this year’s competition… 

15 Years Later: V for Vendetta

It's been 15 years since this iconic film, but does it still hold up? Screen Co-Editor George White thinks so...

25 Years Later: Toy Story

Is the original Toy Story really still worth the hype? Chris King takes us back to where it all began…

25 Years Later: Space Jam

The Michael Jordan–starring Looney Tunes adventure Space Jam turns 25 this year—Katie Green takes a look back at this crazy 1996 live-action (and animated) sports comedy...

50 Years Later: Get Carter

Does Get Carter get a good review fifty years on? More or less...

Interview: Wigflex Relaunches Record Label After Six Year Hiatus

The notorious Nottingham party crew’s last release was in 2015, but now it’s back with an EP from Son of Philip, including an extra special remix. Rory Evans learns more about the long-term friendship formed through music that led to the label’s revival…

Beeston Film Festival returns for its seventh year

Beeston Film Festival is set to return for its seventh year.

Black Iris Brewery’s Director Alex Wilson on Producing Beers for Ten Years

Black Iris Brewery celebrate their tenth birthday later this year. We caught up with Director Alex Wilson to talk artwork, music, history and that time that they raised a smile from Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies...

25 Years Later: Sense and Sensibility

This period drama, released in 1996 in the UK, is in many ways a standard nineties rom-com; but does this adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel actually have too much sense, and not enough scandal?

20 Years Later: In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love arrives on BFI Player as part of a retrospective of his work, with his films now available in 4K as part of a restoration process supervised by the director himself.