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Film Review: Pain and Glory

Pedro Almodóvar's semi-autobiographical story is screening at Broadway Cinema now...

Film Review: Hail Satan?

Fabrice Gagos headed down to Broadway Cinema to check out Mayhem's screening of Hail Satan?

Live Music Review: Steve Gunn at The Bodega

We couldn't believe our luck when we heard that revered singer-songwriter and actual guitar hero Steve Gunn was gonna be in town this summer. Here's what went down at his show at The Bodega last night...

Food Review: The Embankment

Without a doubt, The Embankment has the most inclusive menu of all the pubs I know in Nottingham...

Art Review: Lou Lou Sainsbury at Nottingham Contemporary

She presented her new live performance and video work 1667: Not Alive, Just Living.

Film Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino's highly anticipated ninth film is in cinemas now... 

Film Review: Otherhood

Our Miriam Blakemore-Hoy was less-than-impressed with Cindy Chupack's new Netflix film...

Film Review: Vita and Virginia

Chanya Button's new film about the love affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West has divided critical opinion. Here's our two cents... 

Film Review: Blinded by the Light

We went to check out Gurinder Chadha's feel-good story of a British-Pakistani teenager growing up in 1980s Luton whose life is changed by the discovery of Bruce Springsteen...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This August

Film Review: Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans

Terry Deary's books might an institution to those of us that grew up in Britain, but how will our French-born film reviewer react to the big-screen adaptation of Rotten Romans?

Theatre Review: Coram Boy

We were hugely impressed by the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company's stage adaptation of Jamilia Gavin’s book, Coram Boy...

Review: The School of Artisan Food's Foraging and Wild Food Cookery Course

We wandered the gardens of the Welbeck Estate to see what delectable delights we could scoff...

Theatre Review: Wait Until Dark

A blind housewife is in dire straits when murderous conmen target her home

Film Review: Knife+Heart

A porn producer, a broken heart, a serial killer… what more could we want from a French thriller?

A Chat With Pat, Who Made An Album About the Moon

Producer, composer and Beeston resident Pat Keista has just released his album E11EVEN which was inspired by the Apollo moon landing of 1969. Rory Evans caught up with him, and had a listen to his tunes...

Theatre Review: Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado Theatre brought Shakespeare's comedy to the Canal House's beer garden...

Live Music Review: Splendour Festival

Bleddy hell, what about those showers at Splendour this year? We got soaked to the bone, duck. Thankfully it cleared over just in time for some skanking to The Specials. In all seriousness though, what a spectacular day for music. Here’s the sets which got our Music Editors proper hyped….

Theatre Review: Stones in His Pockets

Dazzling, but Stones in His Pockets gave Adrian that sinking feeling…

Film Review: Tell It to the Bees

Annabel Jankel's adaptation of Fiona Shaw's novel is screening at Broadway Cinema now... 

Film Review: The Lion King

The pursuit of this hyper-realistic reimagining seems to be to create something convincing, but in a plot that surrounds lions and meerkats singing together in perfect harmony, audiences don’t want to be convinced, they want to be entertained…

Film Review: The Dead Don't Die

Jim Jarmusch's star-filled zom-com doesn't quite hit all the right notes, but still contains an important message about the ills of modern life.

Genre-Hopping Aussies King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard to Descend on Rock City

It takes quite some energy to keep up with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. The prodigious genre-hopping Aussies – five albums released in 2017 alone – lead their fans on a merry dance through a range of musical styles from something approaching jazz to something approaching thrash metal. And more in between...

Live Music Review: Benjamin Zięć and the Rarebreeds EP Launch

There's a new band in town that's just released on local label, Phlexx Records. Elizabeth O'Riordan popped down to Peggy's to see what all the fuss was about...

Live Music Review: Damn Craters Album Launch

Local doom quintet Damn Craters launched their album An Ocean of Satellites in seriously sweaty style down The Chameleon last week...