Image: Giant Ape Media If you want to spend an hour and a quarter watching insultingly unrealistic characters spouting corny one-liners in improbable scenarios, then watch Bullet. Among mostly terrible acting, confusing and nauseating editing […]
Theatre | Of Mice and Men – the American masterpiece comes to the WYP
Image: West Yorkshire Playhouse With a jarringly off-key wail, Heather Christian ushered in the Mark Rosenblatt era at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, on a night when the American dream flickered and then died an undignified […]
Art | The Jimi Hendrix Experience – suitably psychedelic photographs
Image: Gered Mankowitz In 1967, in the heady throes of rock and roll, photographer Gered Mankowitz took pictures of Jimi Hendrix. Captured just three years before the musician’s untimely death, the photographs represent the vibrancy […]
Film | The Grand Budapest Hotel – a more melancholy Wes Anderson
Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures It is a criticism oft levelled against Wes Anderson that his films lack substance, forfeiting deeper meaning for stylistic choices and ultimately all blending into one. His films are not ‘revolutionary’, […]
Features | Five reasons graduation isn't that bad
Graduation is a mere four months away. As the days and nights roll by in a haze of study sessions, coffee breaks and hangovers, July comes like a mirage emerging from the Gobi desert. Fear […]
Music | Eagulls live
Eagulls Brudenell Social Club 3/5 If you’re aware of Leeds’ current biggest thing, Eagulls, then it won’t surprise you that at tonight’s show there were five inflatable penises and four inflatable sex dolls. It’s not […]
Comedy | Win tickets to see Russell Howard live
Comedian Russell Howard will be coming to Leeds this weekend, as part of his new tour Wonderbox. Beginning last month, the tour will see him travelling around the UK, USA and Australia, including four consecutive nights […]
Clubs | Weekly Chart
Photo: Factmag This week our picks of the bunch take us from Chicago to Paris, this should keep you on your feet this weekend. Chez Damier – Forever Monna (Oracy Edit) [Mojuba] Re-issue of […]
Music | Album review – We Are Scientists
We Are Scientists TV En Francais 3/5 Having not released a full length album in quite a few years now (the most recent release being the Business Casual EP last year), New York three-piece, We […]
Comedy | Friday Night with Jonathan Tealights – love is in the air
Image: Leeds Tealights 4/5 Stars It’s always worrying for performers, especially comedians, to follow a warm up act as sharp and funny as Goodbear – a comedy duo who managed to command an entire audience […]
Features | Facebook – Yay or Nay?
Whether you love or loathe it, you probably have Facebook. Though connecting millions of people and a tool for activism, it’s often a platform for vanity and hate. Does it make our lives better or […]
Film | Non-Stop – an exciting thriller
Image: StudioCanal Some actors are remembered by a trademark line. Schwarzenegger’s is “I’ll be back.” Jack Nicholson’s is “You can’t handle the truth.” Liam Neeson’s is “We’re running out of time.” He seems to say […]