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Film Review: Coven of Sisters

Wed 17 Mar 2021

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

Film Review: Coming 2 America

Fri 12 Mar 2021

Prince Akeem's long-awaited return is a messy and soulless nostalgia trip...

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

Fri 12 Mar 2021

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…

Food Review: Uramaki

Tue 09 Mar 2021

Posh sushi straight to your door...

Gallery Review: Interstitia: A Cyber Multiverse

Mon 08 Mar 2021

What are art exhibitions like during a pandemic? Whilst we wait for normality to reappear and galleries to open their doors again, creatives turn to unknown territory - exhibiting their works digitally and trying to redefine what it means to experience art...

Two Free Doughnotts For Every LeftLion King Supporter on Patreon

Tue 02 Mar 2021

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...

5 New Notts Albums You Need to Listen to

Tue 02 Mar 2021

The latest Nottinghamshire releases...

Food Review: Big Guys Thiccc Sauce

Sat 27 Feb 2021

These sauces lit a fire under our bellehs...

25 Years Later: Sense and Sensibility

Tue 23 Feb 2021

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

Thu 18 Feb 2021

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.

Film Review: News of the World

Thu 18 Feb 2021

Tom Hanks’ latest outing is an intriguing yet slow-moving journey, says Joanna Hoyes...

Film Review: Red Dot

Wed 17 Feb 2021

The new Swedish-language survival thriller, Red Dot, starts out as a tense ride but ends up feeling about as empty as its barren scenery…

Film Review: To All the Boys - Always & Forever

Sun 14 Feb 2021

In the third and final instalment of the Netflix original trilogy, this time we see Lara Jean and Peter set off for college, with LJ having to make some tough decisions not only in terms of her own future, but her relationship with Peter…

Star-Studded Line-up Announced for Confetti's Digital Industry Week

Thu 11 Feb 2021

Students will get the chance to learn from a number of media legends during this exciting virtual event...

Film Review: Possessor

Wed 10 Feb 2021

Possessor, the latest film by Brandon Cronenberg, son of horror icon David Cronenberg, is an intoxicating descent into high-concept body horror not for the faint of heart…

Film Review: Malcolm & Marie

Sun 07 Feb 2021

Malcolm & Marie sees Euphoria's Sam Levinson and Zendaya team up once again. But should they have? Our Screen Co-Editor thinks not...

25 Years Later: Heat

Tue 02 Feb 2021

With Heat, Michael Mann reached a height of cool realism that he has perhaps never bettered since its release 25 years ago, writes Thomas Griffiths...

Film Review: Penguin Bloom

Mon 01 Feb 2021

Naomi Watts shines in this lovely movie about a friendship between a paralysed woman and a magpie.

Film Review: The Dig

Sun 31 Jan 2021

A newly unearthed treasure! Hollie Anderson reviews Netflix’s latest star-studded release, all about the famous Sutton Hoo excavation of 1939.

LeftLion Magazine #133

Fri 29 Jan 2021

A love-themed Feb/March issue featuring your Love Letters to Notts, the Nottingham duo who became the first married couple to reach the North and South Poles, our Valentine's Day Dating Game, author Mhairi McFarlane on why Valentine's Day stinks, The Colour of Love, A Decade of Black Iris, The Festival of Science and Curiosity and loads more...