From 10th – 13th February 2016, performance society Opera Soc will be performing a brand new adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. However, this will be no ordinary re-telling of the classic opera as director […]
The Oscars 2016: Not so Black and White
Here we are again; for the second year in a row there’s outrage over the whitewashed Oscar nominations. The Academy has churned out another bleached list of nominees. Considering the backlash they received last year, […]
Review: The Smuggler – A tense, comic thriller
Not many films can boast such an intriguing plotline as Angus Sampson’s The Smuggler (named The Mule in Australia), in which the simple yet distressing notion of someone being unable to go to the toilet […]
Review: Exposed – A Collection of Shallow Archetypes
Declan Dale does not exist. Declan Dale is a pseudonym for the director who abandoned this film after Lionsgate Premiere edited what was meant to be a bilingual, surrealist drama (sounds promising so far) into […]
Review: Creed – Comeback of the Year
We enter the fray in Juvie, where a troubled youth by the name of Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) is being held. He is picked up and taken in by Mary Anne Creed (Phylicia Rashad) […]
The Witness: A lost world of puzzles
Let’s face it we all need a source of inspiration, a beacon of hope in this dreary mid-winter. As the glowing faces of freshers grow aged and tired and final-year students push through their last […]
Review: Going Viral – Infectiously entertaining
“Everyone on the plane is in floods of tears… except you.” Sat in a circle, awkwardly facing one other, the atmosphere of the Barber Studio, down in the depths of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, is […]
Review: The Mayor Of Everywhere – Witty, ambitious, and genuinely surprising
A new world was created in Stage@Leeds late last month as Big Egg Theatre presented their latest production, The Mayor of Everywhere. This young cast’s witty, classic and genuinely surprising piece is a delight to […]
Review: The Hateful Eight – Not Tarantino's best
The eighth film by Quentin Tarantino sees a group of strangers spend a couple of days in an inn in the snowy wilderness of 19th century Wyoming. There’s two bounty hunters, a bounty, a hangman, […]
Comment: is 2016 the year of women in film?
Towards the end of 2015 and in this first month of 2016, are we starting to see the long-awaited rise of female leadership? The seventh Star Wars film passed the Bechdel Test; the pretty basic standards […]
Review: The Danish Girl – More than meets the eye
On the surface Tom Hooper’s (Les Misérables, The Kings Speech) The Danish Girl is the typical winter-release Oscar fodder that’s expected to sweep the floor come awards season. However, there is more to this film […]
Review: Jane Eyre at the National theatre – laughter, anger, tears and joy
‘You must learn to control your passions!’ Bessie tells a distraught young Jane Eyre, as she cries over the unjust treatment by her Aunt Reed and cousins. Two years ago, director Sally Cookson was given […]