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5 Nottingham Artists to Listen to This Month

Fri 20 Nov 2020

The latest Nottinghamshire releases...

Food Review: Ye Olde Bell Hotel

Mon 16 Nov 2020

During these COVID times, it can be easy to get into the habit of rolling to the same pub or restaurant in a variation of your loungewear. So when I was invited to sample the bottomless brunch (£30pp) at the Ye Olde Bell Hotel, I was very excited to have an excuse to doll up and go somewhere a bit different...

Book Review: The Beauty Within Shadow by Henry Normal

Fri 13 Nov 2020

With a CV that boasts a contribution to British comedy that few can equal, you’d be right to expect more than your fair share of humour from The Beauty Within Shadow, the latest poetry collection from Henry Normal. But if laughs were all you were expecting, you’re in for a welcome surprise...

Film Review: Operation Christmas Drop

Wed 11 Nov 2020

Is it too early to start watching Christmas movies? Netflix reckons not. Here's what Joanna Hoyes thinks of this one...

Film Review: The SpongeBob Movie - Sponge on the Run

Wed 11 Nov 2020

Silly seawater escapades arrive on Netflix…but does this sponge scrub up?

LeftLion Magazine #131

Mon 02 Nov 2020

Featuring a tribute to the late Pete Woosh, the gentrification of Sneinton Market, Nottingham Poetry Festival, A Reverend on Notts, Nottingham BID, Christmas at Wollaton Hall, My Photo Moment, Bone Arrow, Tony Bates, Dekker, The Carousel, Lone, Tawn-19, MOIST and loads more...

Book Review: Connections by NTU's MA Creative Writing Students

Thu 29 Oct 2020

We check out the anthology put together by Nottingham Trent University's MA Creative Writing students...

Film Review: Saint Maud

Wed 28 Oct 2020

Morfydd Clark is electrifying in Rose Glass’s sexuo-religious horror, says Roshan Chandy…

Food Review: Rikshaw Urban Indian Kitchen

Wed 28 Oct 2020

Our Food Editor tucked into some serious bad boy Indian street food...

30 Years Later: GoodFellas

Mon 26 Oct 2020

Manvir Basi looks back on one of the most celebrated films of the nineties on its thirtieth anniversary...

Film Review: Rebecca

Fri 23 Oct 2020

It's been 80 years since the release of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, but does that mean it's time for another take on the story? Screen Co-Editor George White thinks not...

Film Review: Ammonite

Tue 20 Oct 2020

Manvir Basi brings our London Film Festival coverage to a close with a review of romantic period drama Ammonite...

25 Years Later: Get Shorty

Tue 20 Oct 2020

John Travolta picked up a Golden Globe for his performance in this film, but was it deserved? Screen Co-Editor George White finds out...

Film Review: Supernova

Mon 19 Oct 2020

Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth each offer a deeply moving performance in Supernova, says Joanna Hoyes...

Exhibition Review: Jimmy Roberts' Akimbo at Nottingham Contemporary

Mon 19 Oct 2020

Akimbo, Guadeloupean-born artist Jimmy Robert’s latest exhibition currently on view at Nottingham Contemporary, captures an important moment not only in the artist’s career but also the social moment we are living in.

Film Review: Rocks

Mon 19 Oct 2020

Rocks is a riotous riot of pure girl power, writes Roshan Chandy...

Film Review: Trial of the Chicago 7

Sun 18 Oct 2020

Miram Blakemore-Hoy reviews Netflix’s timely new legal drama...

40 Years Later: The Elephant Man

Fri 16 Oct 2020

Charlie and George Alexander look back on David Lynch's tragic true story of the "Elephant Man"...

10 Years Later: The Social Network

Thu 15 Oct 2020

Is this just another blockbuster film that glorifies people who don’t deserve it? Hollie Anderson finds out...

15 Years Later: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Wed 14 Oct 2020

15 years later, contributor Alex Mace is still crackers about the feature-length Wallace and Gromit film...

Film Review: Days

Tue 13 Oct 2020

Daniel Turner reviews the 11th feature film from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang following its UK debut at the 2020 London Film Festival...

Food Review: Bar Iberico

Mon 12 Oct 2020

We got down to one of Notts' best loved tapas-spots to see how things have changed post-lockdown...

Film Review: The 40-Year-Old Version

Mon 12 Oct 2020

Winner of the Sundance Directing award, Radha Blank directs, writes and stars in this semi-autobiographical piece based on a struggling playwright going through a midlife crisis.