The Rainbow Collective Film Festival, hosted by the University of Leeds, last week screened humanitarian films produced by the graduates of the Northern Film School in Leeds, Richard York and Hannan Majid. The two short films […]
Review: Jenufa
Leos Janácek Dir. Tom Cairns Conductor. Aleksander Markovic The 1904 story of Leos Janácek’s Jenufa would not look out of place in an Eastender’s Christmas special. Pregnant out of wedlock, Jenufa is caught up in […]
Review: Jane Wenham: The Witch Of Walkern
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s play Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, directed by Ria Parry, has recently begun a national tour. The play draws on the story the 1712 witch hunt in the Hertfordshire village of Walkern. […]
Review: TG‘s Boys
Theatre Group’s first production of the semester attracted a buzzing crowd to the Banham theatre this week as we sat down to witness Boys. As MGMT’s ‘Kids’ faded out (an ironic choice), the lights revealed […]
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension – Found footage horror’s last gasp?
Paranormal Activity has become the touchstone for the found footage movie genre that originated in The Blair Witch Project in 1999. It’s prompted several sequels as well as spurring on a host of other films […]
The Intern – Pertinent points or a tired cliche?
Having recently spent a load of time scrolling through and applying for internships this summer, I was naturally curious when The Intern landed in cinemas last month. With both its leads being played by Hollywood […]
Review: The Walk – A wobbly performance from Gordon-Levitt
The story of Philippe Petit, the only person ever to tightrope walk across the twin towers, is one which has the true ability to captivate people through its sheer brilliance and audacity. Carried out in […]
Suffragette: Oscar-bait or fitting homage to incredible women?
Xa Rodger and Heather Nash discuss the depiction of the women’s rights movement in Sarah Gavron’s latest film… On 4th June 1913 Emily Wilding Davison stepped in front of King George V’s horse at Derby […]
Review – Good Life 2nd Birthday Hip Hop Special
Ever since word spread of GoodLife’s conception, a night offering perhaps more than your average watered down jager bomb, students have transformed their often ‘edgy’ Leeds wear into the sometimes exotic, often ridiculous, evening attire […]
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Mouths Of Lions are a young theatre collective hailing from Camden, and on Thursday 8th October they performed their first show outside of London in the university’s own Workshop Theatre, which was a pretty big […]
Review: Finding Fela – Enthralling viewing for the uninitiated
The significance and diversity accorded to Black History Month this year in Leeds has been truly refreshing. With artists such as Akala and the poet Wole Soyinka already blazing the trail to diversify dialogues on […]
Review: The Visit – Strong concept, worse execution
The latest release from M. Night Shyamalan was a truly mixed package. After fifteen years of no contact, teenage Becca and her younger brother Tyler receive an invitation to visit their maternal grandparents. Hopeful, the […]