Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are back! MONDAY – The Sixth Sense (More4 21:00) “I see dead people”; the line is a classic and so is the film, which delivers a cracking twist […]
Books | Top 5 Exotic Reads
If you’re one of those faced with a summer of erratic British weather, an endless stream of friends’ holiday snaps on your Facebook newsfeed and only a very slight chance of getting a tan, why […]
TV | Orange is the New Black – Back Behind Bars for Series Two
Netflix has released its second season of the original series Orange Is the New Black, and a great hype has quite rightly followed. This prison dramedy may well be the most important television show not […]
Video Games | Best of E3
This year the great and the good of the video games industry gathered once more to bring us all the news, updates and previews we could possibly want and Leeds Student stayed up well past […]
Theatre | Wicked – the 'Popular' musical flies into Leeds
Image: Wicked the Musical UK Tour 5/5 Stars Why is the Wicked Witch of the West so very wicked? What’s with all those flying monkeys? And why on earth is she green? Stephen Schwartz and […]
Final Year Performance | Subtext and Rain – a multi-sensory puzzle
5/5 Stars What is it with Brits and talking about the weather? More importantly, what is it with Brits and not talking about what they really want to talk about? This is the dual question […]
Theatre | La Boheme Launch – A night on the town
Image: Opera North Last week Opera North held the launch event for their new Under 30’s membership scheme at the Leeds Grand Theatre with a performance of Puccini’s famous opera La Bohème, aiming to inspire […]
TV | In The Flesh – Far more than 'just another zombie programme'
Although the concept of BBC3’s complex zombie drama, In The Flesh, might seem a bit far-fetched, the compelling story and subtle allusions to contemporary social issues make this not ‘just another zombie programme’. The show, […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the Week – A 40 Year Old Virgin, X-Men & 21 Jump Street
Our weekly LSi best freeview flicks picks are here! MONDAY – The 40 Year Old Virgin (ITV2 21:30) Steve Carell is one of the funniest actors working in the industry today, a man who is […]
TV | Prey – An ITV drama that finally begins to live up to Broadchurch
Breaking out of a police van, jumping over and under fences and leading the police on a wild goose chase whilst single-handedly running a murder investigation. DI Marcus Farrow (John Simm) is fighting to prove […]
Film | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Garfield and Stone's on-screen chemistry saves the day
Video: Marvel Enterprises In the complicated world of comic book superheroes, Spider-Man, a Marvel creation, starts his journey off in very much the same way we saw in the first film in this franchise, and […]
TV | Boxset Essentials – Green Wing
So the next set of essay deadlines and exams are looming, which clearly means it’s the right time to start a new TV series and take your mind off revision. Green Wing is everything we […]