Image: PAN Leeds College of Art is currently hosting an exhibition from PAN, the Berlin based record label who have become critically acclaimed as a platform for experimental sound and art. With the exhibition showcasing […]
Books | The Railway Man
As a society we have been overexposed to scenes of brutality and desensitised by television. However, the ease of Eric Lomax’s narration makes the untold horrors of the Burma-Siam railway and the conditions and torture […]
Books | Cheat's guide to Vanity Fair
We break up William Makepeace Thackeray’s gargantuan tale of love, lash and Napoleonic lads into easy chunks of satirical fun. Who? Rebecca Sharp: Witty, wily, morally challenged. A social climber. Amelia Sedley: Spends most of […]
Opera|Girl of the Golden West – The very first spaghetti western
Image: Opera North Critic Sir Christopher Frayling said that ‘…it was Giacomo Puccini who wrote the first Spaghetti Western worthy of the name…’ and it’s a proper old fashioned western of saloon brawls, poker games […]
Art | Flyposting at Leeds City Gallery – aesthetically thirst quenching
Image: Leeds City Gallery Gig posters have become a well established feature of our student environs over the years, whether plastered to a nearby lamppost on the way to uni or covering up that nasty […]
Film | Fritz Lang's Destiny – Hitchcock and Buñuel's gothic inspiration
As the British Film Institute’s Gothic Festival draws to an end, the Hyde Park Picture House played host to a live score of Fritz Lang’s Destiny. The film itself was born in the early 1920s […]
Video Games | Titanfall – Totally Enormous Addictive Mechs
Titanfall is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated games of the year. Created by a team of former Call of Duty developers at Respawn Entertainment, Titanfall puts single-player gameplay on the back burner in favour […]
TV | My Mad Fat Diary – Not suited to a post-15 age group
Released only last year, My Mad Fat Diary has received large critical acclamation for its honest portrayal of adolescent turmoil. The series recounts the life of a 16 ½ stone teenage girl, Rae (Sharon Rooney), […]
Theatre | The Laramie Project – stage@leeds' company's successful debut
Image: stage@leeds The Laramie Project is a piece of verbatim theatre written by Moises Kaufman, in memory and response to the murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming. A unique way […]
Film | 2014 Academy Award Predictions
Image: Lupita Nyong’o, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave, Regency Enterprises It’s that time of year again. On Sunday 2nd March the red carpet will be rolled out and the stars […]
TV | Modern Family – Will season five be the last?
Modern Family returns with its 5th season, and as expected the show did not let us down. The season premiered with the announcement of legalisation of gay marriage, and the plot becomes driven by Cam […]
Film | 'The McConnaisance' – Matthew McConaughey's career revival
We’re in the midst of the build up to the 86th Academy Awards on March 2nd, and the front runner for the Best Actor award is a name that a mere five years ago was […]