On a chilly December evening, a couple of hours at The Wardrobe with The Paper Kites was Kate Wassell’s perfect winter warmer. The Australian five-piece have been on the folk-scene since 2011 with their beloved […]
Harry Styles Gives Us The Live Lounge This Decade Deserved
As we all reunited with our clean home kitchens and the 24/7 radio that comes along with it, Radio 1 treated us to a run down of the decade’s live lounges. However, it was a […]
“Oh My Gosh”: SMS’s Legally Blonde Takes Leeds By Storm
Having seen my fair share of student musicals, I’m always more than impressed by the extent to which amateur theatre groups are able to keep an overabundance of plates spinning in a professional manner. However, […]
Do You Believe in Shakespeare?
Questions about Shakespeare’s authorship have been the subject of heated debate and controversy for the past three centuries. Most recently, computer algorithms have been used to compare the scenes from Henry VIII with other plays […]
Trailer Review: Ghostbusters Afterlife
This week we got our first look at 2020’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a sequel to the original two films, and it has to be said that it looks like it could be quite a solid return […]
REVIEW: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
After much excitement and anticipation, The Rise of Skywalker has arrived in cinemas, concluding the 42 year old Skywalker Saga. We pick up one year after the events of The Last Jedi, where the Resistance […]
Review: Marriage Story
Marriage Story is a chimaera of multiple cinematic genres, tender drama, heart-breaking romance, thriller, screwball-comedy and musical- yes you are reading that correctly, thanks to Adam Driver’s gorgeous rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s Being Alive – […]
Harry Styles Defies Expectations on New Album ‘Fine Line’
Around two years ago, I reviewed Harry Styles’ first solo debut album, finishing my review with hopes that he would find his own way of telling us who he is, rather than shyly sticking with […]
Wharf Chambers Welcomes the Experimental ‘No Audience Underground’ 10/12/19
Thomas Carroll lets us in on a slice of the Leeds music underground which never get talked about in much depth, the ‘no audience underground’, a term coined by Rob Hayler from Radio Free Midwich. […]
Metz Bring Boundless Energy to The O2 Academy 05/12/19
Whilst half of Leeds were prepped and ready for the infamous IDLES, our print editor Jess McCarrick was eager to hear what their support Metz were serving up. Metz graced the O2 Academy’s stage as […]
Spoiler Alert! Are Spoilers the Filmmakers Best Kept Secret?
Growing up, I was never too fond of the traditional spoiler. When it appears essential to the plot, for example: in The Film That We Do Not Talk About, The Usual Suspects and Shawshank Redemption, […]
Review: Knives Out
Knives Out is a fun, twisting whodunit, directed by Rian Johnson of Looper fame, which harks back to the crime drama of his debut film, Brick. Johnson, using a stellar cast of well-known actors, does […]