Image: the-totality.com, Video: No Gloss Film Festival The independent film festival No Gloss is returning to Leeds for its third year. Showing mainly a series of short films throughout the day, starting from two minutes […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the Week: The Rum Diary, The Queen and Stand By Me
In the Middle’s weekly best freeview flicks picks are here! This week we go on a trip to Puerto Rico, take a look at the life of our current Queen and explore Iranian culture. MONDAY – […]
TV | Downton Abbey predictably popular, but delightfully good
Forget Freshers’ welcome parties. We all know that the first two weeks of the academic year are dedicated to a single task: the race to watch as many television series as physically possible before the […]
Film | 20,000 Days on Earth Review
Photo: nickcave.com There’s nobody quite like Nick Cave. Since the age of fourteen in The Birthday Party, the Australian has had a genuine presence in the music world. Over this long and varied career, Cave […]
Video Games | ISIS are playing the West at their own game
There are three constants in life; death, taxes and the constant claims that video games are corrupting our children. Now a recent video released to the internet that appears to be a trailer for an […]
Arts | Venue Map of Leeds
You may have seen in our Fresher’s Guide a map to the venues around Leeds where all the artsy stuff takes place; a cinema, a theatre or two and a host of galleries. Well, here we […]
Books | Why we Need Banned Books Week
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” So said Heinrich Heine, the 18thcentury German writer famous for his radical politics. Heine’s works were publicly burned by the German Student Union […]
Books | The Changing Face of Comic Books
The comic book industry is a strange one. It’s dominated almost entirely by two companies -Marvel and DC – and as such, it’s perhaps the only entertainment industry that has managed to exclude, overlook or […]
Arts | Top 10 Wes Anderson Characters
Photo: Fox Searchlight Director Wes Anderson is known for creating colourful, intricate worlds within his films, each featuring a host of oddly charming characters played by some of the most recognisable actors. A master of […]
TV | Freeview Flicks – Hitch, The Social Network and The Woman in Black
Our weekly freeview flicks picks are here! This week we have to run away from yet more zombies, fall in love with a date-doctor and discover Facebook. MONDAY – 28 Weeks Later (Film4 23:40) Last week’s […]
Arts | Bond actor Richard Kiel dies
Image: Eon Productions The towering 7ft 2in American actor, best known for playing the Bond villain Jaws has died in hospital aged 74, a week after breaking his leg. It is not yet known if […]
TV | Our Girl – Must See Drama
Sunday night saw the return of a powerful and emotive drama, Our Girl. The story of Molly Dawes (Lacey Turner), a newly recruited medic soldier to the British Army who is sent to fight in […]