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Film Review: Zack Snyder's Justice League

The director’s cut of DC Comics’ superhero team-up is four hours of wacky, over-the-top fun, writes Screen section co-editor Jamie Morris...

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…

These Pictures of St Ann’s Taken Before Its Demolition Show the End of an Era

These pictures really do paint a thousand words...

Film Review: Coven of Sisters

Why is Netflix’s latest release about witches lacking in magic?

Sugar Stealers are Hosting a Month of Free Online Women’s Creative and Wellbeing Workshops

The collective – made up DJ Tricia Gardiner, Nottinghamshire actor Esther Coles and film producer Anna Griffin – are offering workshops to aid the wellbeing of women everywhere after a particularly difficult month… 

Nusic MC Sessions: Jimmy Rocket

This is the first Nusic MC session. Featuring Jimmy Rocket. Recorded at LL HQ.

Metronome Have Expanded Their Virtual Line Up with Three Events from Nottingham Poetry Festival featuring Henry Normal

Following the success of the virtual festival and a string of gigs at the latter end of 2020, the venue announced further big names for their Metronome Sessions… 

Be Scene and Heard: Video Showcase

Blather: The Series - Hockley Types

Check out the second in our Blather film series: Hockley Types, directed by Tim Doubleday and starring Justine Emma Moore & Sophie Bloor

Food Review: Uramaki

Posh sushi straight to your door...

Beeston Film Festival returns for its seventh year

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

Dead Quiet is a New Short Film That’s a Different Viewing Experience Because of Lockdown

Screen section co-editor Jamie Morris talks to filmmaker Alex Withers about how the pandemic has changed the way people will experience Dead Quiet, his new short film...

Creative Incubators: Nottingham's Music Studio Scene

A rite of passage for musicians with a hunger to progress their ideas. A collaborative creative melting pot. A place to make memories with your mates and, for some, a lifeline. From Rockfield to the Brownswood Basement and the recent rise of Digital Holdings, the UK hosts a number of iconic music studios that have moved on from simply being a place to lay down some tracks. Adding to this is a steadily growing number of studios in Nottingham. Eileen Pegg takes a look at the role these spaces play for the creative community, speaking with established hubs in the city and those launched over the past ten turbulent months...

Framework's Winter Appeal Raises £232,000 to Support Work with Homeless People

The Nottingham charity's Winter appeal, which organisers hoped would raise £60,000, made £231,687.22 to support their work with homeless people...

Deep Fakes From Nottingham History

Ever wondered what it would be like to see video of historical figures who existed before video cameras? We've deep faked some figures from Nottingham history so you need wonder no more...

Southwell Music Festival set to return in 2021

The programme of classical and choral music, which takes place in the heart of Nottinghamshire, is scheduled to return this August...

Two Free Doughnotts For Every LeftLion King Supporter on Patreon

Yes, you read it right. We're giving away a couple of Nottingham's tastiest donuts to our beloved King supporters. Read on to find out how to get your mitts on them...

Food Review: Big Guys Thiccc Sauce

These sauces lit a fire under our bellehs...

The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner: Reimagining Sillitoe During Covid

On the event of Sir Tom Courtenay's 84th birthday, Dawn of the Unread's James Walker has re-written The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in the time of COVID. His take on Alan Sillitoe's classic work, re-titled as The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner, is being launched on Twitter today at 5pm...

Nusic New Music Podcast #244 with Chloe Rodgers, Bru-C, Wolf Club, Sade Ebone and More...

This week’s New Music Podcast features the launch of sad-boy UKG, the artist selling his own condoms, plus the song that makes us think of pandas. 

The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Metronome Announces New Series of Virtual Events Starting in March

After the success of the first fully-virtual Nottingham Poetry Festival in November, as well as their live-streamed gigs, the Metronome Sessions will see the Notts venue host a new series of virtual events beginning this March...

To Hull and Back: Music Showcase Throws Lifeline to Grassroots Music Scene

With live gigs off the cards for almost a year now, a new project has won funding from the Arts Council to showcase the musical output of Hull and Nottingham in one mammoth event on 20 March 2021.

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?

Notts duo launch campaign to fund animated sitcom

A pair of Notts creatives have launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund an animated sitcom.

Mike and Fiona Thornewill MBE: The First Married Couple to Reach Both the North and South Poles

While some couples might share an interest in binging Netflix series’ or battling over a Monopoly board, Mike and Fiona Thornewill MBE share a unique passion that has seen them become the first married couple to reach both the North and South Poles. And if that wasn’t enough, Fiona also holds the title of being the first British woman to reach the latter. We caught up with the Nottinghamshire couple to talk Polar exploration, breaking records and staying sane in the middle of the Antarctic….